Mary P Koss, PhD

Mary Koss, PhD, is a Regents’ Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. She published the first national study sexual assault among college students in 1987. She was the principal investigator of the RESTORE Program; the first restorative justice program for sex crimes among adults that was quantitatively evaluated. Her current projects include developing risk assessment and therapeutic approaches for those found responsible for campus sexual misconduct, a sexual assault primary prevention program focusing on alcohol serving establishments, and a collaboration with the attorney general of an ingenious tribe to develop a restorative justice-based family strengthening program for domestic violence crimes. Her credentials document close to 300 publications and sustained consultations with national and international health organizations and governments. During 2016 she advised the US Departments of Justice, Education, and the White House Taskforce on Campus Sexual Assault.    She was the 8th recipient of the Visionary Award from End Violence Against Women International. In 2013, the Mary P. Koss Profile in Courage Award was created by the One in Four USA Organization to honor her career contributions to using science to improve response to rape. She has received awards from the American Psychological Association:  the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy (2000) and the Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology (2017).