Focusing on health behavior for the past 25 years, Ed Fishers research has examined prevention, chronic disease management, and psychosocial factors in asthma, cancer, diabetes, and smoking with a strong emphasis on extensions to disadvantaged populations. His work has also emphasized peer and community interventions and, connected to these, key characteristics of social support in health and well being. He currently serves as National Program Director for the Diabetes Initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Initiative uses an ecological approach to integrate individual, group, organizational, and community influences on self management in fourteen primary care and community settings serving disadvantaged populations. From 1980 - 2005, he has served as Associate Director of Washington University's NIDDK-funded Diabetes Research and Training Center, and from 1997 - 2005, as Associate Director of Washington University's NCI-funded Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Fisher has served on numerous national scientific and advisory panels including the Pulmonary Disease Advisory Committee of the NHLBI, the National Interagency Council on Smoking or Health (chair), and the national board and executive committee of the American Lung Association. He also has served as President and, since 1976, board member of the American Lung Association of Missouri. He currently serves as President-Elect of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and as Treasurer of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine.