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Patrick Moynihan is the Preceptor for Survey Research in the Department of Government and the Assistant Director of the Program on Survey Research at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He received his doctoral degree in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. After spending two years in the NIMH post-doctoral program at Rutgers University, he joined the faculty at Fordham University. In 2007, he joined the Polling Unit at ABC News, where he helped design and analyze national and state-level ABC News/Washington Post polls and the network's award-winning "Where Things Stand" surveys in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was deeply involved in ABC's pre-election polling in the 2008 presidential election, vetted external research for the network's news platforms and produced multivariate regression modeling of ABC polling data. He's published articles on topics ranging from public opinion to health care access in journals such as Political Behavior, the American Journal of Public Health, Community Mental Health Journal and Teaching Sociology. He has served on the executive council of the New England Chapter and the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. In addition, he represents the university on the Association of Academic Survey Research Organization and continues to participate in the national election coverage of ABC News.