Mark E. Feinberg

Mark E. Feinberg serves as a Research Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at The Pennsylvania State University's College of Health and Human Development. He is affiliated with the Prevention Research Center, Family Prevention Lab, and is establishing the International Center for Coparenting and Policy Research.

His research pioneers family-focused prevention science, with groundbreaking work on co-parenting dynamics, sibling relationships, and community-level interventions. He developed the evidence-based Family Foundations program—proven through five randomized trials to improve birth outcomes, reduce postpartum depression, and enhance child development—with demonstrated 10-year impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. His work spans neonatal through early adulthood periods across individual, family, school, and community levels.

Feinberg leads major initiatives including PROSPER, Communities That Care, and Evidence2Success, securing significant funding such as a $3.5M NIH grant for military family obesity prevention. He edited the seminal volume Designing Evidence-Based Public Health and Prevention Programs and is co-editing Teen Friendship Networks, Development, and Risky Behaviors.

He directs the Family Prevention Lab and is creating the International Coparenting Hub with support from Penn State's Social Science Research Institute to advance global co-parenting research, intervention implementation, and policy advocacy—embodying his mission that 'every child deserves a strong, supportive, healthy family.'