Besides chairing the Division of Counseling Psychology, Michael Newcomb also coordinates the USC Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling Program. His research interests include etiology and consequences of drug abuse; adolescent and young adult development; predictors of HIV vulnerability and progression to AIDS; ethnic and gender issues; structural equation modeling, methodology, and multivariate analysis; human sexuality; health psychology; consequences of childhood family dysfunction and child abuse; attitudes and effects related to nuclear war; and cohabitation, marriage, and divorce.Dr. Newcomb has published nearly 200 papers and chapters, and he had written three books: Consequences of Adolescent Drug Use (1988), with co-author P.M. Bentler; Drug Use in the Workplace (1988); and Sexual Abuse and Consensual Sex: Women's Developmental Patterns and Outcomes (1993), with co-authors Gail Elizabeth Wyatt and Monika H Riederle.Dr. Newcomb has served on many journal editorial boards, including the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Journal of Addictive Diseases, and Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse. A licensed clinical psychologist in California, Dr. Newcomb is a fellow in several divisions of the American Psychological Association and in the American Psychological Society. He is principal investigator on several grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Mental Health. He has served on several national review and advisory committees for such groups as the National Academy of Science, Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, and various research centers.

(1999). Adolescent drug use and adult drug problems in women: Direct, interactive, and mediational effects. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7, 160-173.(1999). Vulnerability for drug use among Latino adolescents.Journal of Community Psychology, 27.(1997). Psychosocial predictors and consequences of drug use: A developmental perspective within a prospective study. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 16, 51-89.