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Today, I’m very excited to be sitting across from Dr. Anthony Biglan. Dr. Biglan is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute that partners with others around the world to promote behavior change toward sustainable health and wellbeing. Their emerging areas right now include genetics, health economics, Alzheimer’s Disease and opioid addiction. Tony is Co-Director of Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium, a community-based network that works to improve wellbeing in high-poverty neighborhoods. For over 30 years, he’s been conducting research on the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behaviors. He is former president of the Society for Prevention Research, dedicated to advancing scientific investigation focused on the causes and prevention of social, physical and mental health, and academic problems. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention and of Oregon’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission. His books, the Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World and Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society That Works for Everyone. are a culmination of his life’s work that lay the framework for a model of societal change. He has also created the nonproft Values to Action to advance the reforms he calls for in his book Rebooting Capitalism, where solution-focused action circles are created around societal issues where we apply the principles of contextual behavioral science. If there is a problem you see in our society or in your community, an Action Circle is the way that you can address it to achieve concrete results. Join Values to Action.org and contribute just $47 to become a lifetime member.