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Terrie E. Moffitt's expertise is in the areas of lifelong aging, mental health, and longitudinal research. She is the associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in Britain. Dr. Moffitt is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is an elected fellow of the US National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and Association of Psychological Science. Dr. Moffitt is recipient of the Stockholm Criminology Prize, the Klaus J Jacobs Prize, the NARSAD Ruane Prize, and the Grawemeyer Prize. She received her PhD in psychology at the University of Southern California and completed her postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Moffitt holds appointments at Duke University, King's College London, and the University of Oslo. She enjoys working on her poison-ivy farm in North Carolina. Learn more at www.moffittcaspi.com.