Joseph Durlak is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Loyola University, Chicago, where his primary research interest is in prevention and promotion programs for children and adolescents.

He has collaborated with Roger Weissberg at the University of Illinois at Chicago on a three-year grant to conduct a meta-analysis of positive youth development (PYD) programs. They hold a database of approximately 700 interventions targeting children and adolescents between the ages of five and 18 and have conducted reviews of universal school- after school- and family-based programs. He invites correspondence from students who would like to learn how to use meta-analysis to evaluate a research literature.