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GARY A. GIOVINO, PhD (Roswell Park) ImpacTeen Tobacco Research Team Director Telephone: 716.829.6952 Email: ggiovino@buffalo.edu Dr. Gary A. Giovino
joined the faculty of the Department of Health Behavior in the SUNY
at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions in September
2006. His research interests focus on patterns, determinants, consequences,
and control of tobacco use; which are part of a more general focus on
disease prevention and health promotion. Dr. Giovino earned his doctoral
degree in Experimental Pathology (Epidemiology) at the University at
Buffalo in 1987. In 1988, he joined the Office on Smoking and Health
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he served
as Chief of the Epidemiology Branch during most of the 1990s. In 1999
he became a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Health Behavior
of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dr. Giovino is a member of the
New York State Tobacco Control Program Advisory Board. He is Principal
Investigator of two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-funded studies;
the first is a survey on national patterns of youth smoking cessation
and the second is a national survey of US adult smokers to assess "hardcore"
smoking and interest in tobacco harm reduction. He also heads the tobacco
team for the ImpacTeen component of the RWJF-funded Bridging the Gap
project. In addition, Giovino conducts tobacco surveillance and evaluation
work with funding from the National Cancer Institute and the National
Science Foundation. Dr. Giovino has authored or co-authored more than
170 scientific publications on tobacco, including his work on several
reports of the Surgeon General, dozens of articles in the Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report, and an Institute of Medicine report on
tobacco harm reduction. K. MICHAEL CUMMINGS, PhD (Roswell Park) Telephone: 716.845.8456 Email: michael.cummings@roswellpark.org Dr. Cummings is
a senior cancer research scientist and director of the Tobacco Control
Program at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. He
also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Social and
Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo where
he teaches graduate courses in cancer epidemiology and health behavior.
Dr. Cummings received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is nationally recognized as an authority
on smoking issues and has contributed to several Surgeon General's Reports
on Smoking and Health and an Institute of Medicine Report on nicotine
addiction in children. He is a member of the New York State Commission
on Smoking or Health and serves as a consultant to the California Health
Department's tax funded antitobacco campaign. Dr. Cummings is a senior
editor for the journal Tobacco Control and is author of over 120 published
scientific papers; most of which are on the topic of tobacco control.
His current research interests focus on public policy approaches to
tobacco control. JAMIE CHRIQUI, PhD (UIC) Telephone: 312.996.6410 Email: jchriqui@uic.edu Jamie F. Chriqui, Ph.D., M.H.S. is a Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has over 17 years' experience conducting public health policy research, evaluation, and analysis, with an emphasis on substance abuse, tobacco control and, most recently, obesity policy-related issues. Dr. Chriqui has led a number of efforts to develop quantitative measures of the extensiveness of state and local level public health policies. She is routinely called upon to deliver training sessions and presentations on methods for researching and evaluating public health policies. For the ImpacTeen project, she currently leads the state obesity and tobacco control policy components and she has led the state illicit drug law and substance abuse treatment policy research efforts. Dr. Chriqui also is co-director (with Dr. Lindsey Turner) of the RWJF-funded Food and Fitness project, which examines obesity-related policies and practices in a nationwide sample of elementary schools and school districts. Dr. Chriqui is leading the wellness policy component of the related Food & Fitness study to systematically collect and analyze wellness policies from a nationally representative sample of school districts throughout the U.S. Prior to joining UIC, Dr. Chriqui served as Technical Vice-President of the Center for Health Policy and Legislative Analysis at The MayaTech Corporation and, previously, as a policy analyst at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. ANDREW HYLAND, PhD (Roswell Park) Telephone: 716.845.8391 Email: andrew.hyland@roswellpark.org Dr. Hyland is a
researcher at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He received a master's
degree in statistics and a doctoral degree in epidemiology from the
State University of New York at Buffalo. His research focuses on the
evaluation of tobacco policies and tobacco surveillance, and he has
published on a variety of tobacco control topics. CINDY TWOREK, PhD, MS, MPH Email: ctworek@pire.org Dr. Tworek received
a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Community Health from the Department of
Social and Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at
Buffalo. Currently, Dr. Tworek is an Associate Research Scientist in
the Center for Public Health Improvement and Innovation at the Pacific
Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), in Calverton, Maryland
and is working with health behavior and health prevention systems and
including models for substance abuse prevention related to alcohol,
tobacco and illicit drugs. Past and present research has included a
focus on health policy related to tobacco and behavioral health. She
has conducted tobacco control and policy research, and has extensive
experience in survey design, needs assessment, focus groups, and evaluation.
She has been the ImpacTeen Tobacco Component Project Manager, and much
of her work has focused on youth tobacco use, including youth smoking
cessation and the relationship between health policy and adolescent
smoking behavior. Research interests include: tobacco control, health
behavior, health policy, public health, epidemiology, adolescent health,
health services research, community intervention, evaluation, and substance
abuse prevention.
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