Manali Vora, BDS

Manali Vora, DDS earned her DDS in Dental Surgery from Gujarat University, India in 2014, recently received her MPH in Epidemiology at University of Washington, Seattle. She was sensitized to the tobacco epidemic during her training as a dentist and has since then been passionate about tobacco dependence prevention and treatment research.

Her other research interest is in improving clinical management of oral cancer. Thus, for her Master’s thesis she worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to study the tumor immune environment of different types of oral cancer and how it related to survival in patients, under the supervision of field expert, Dr. Chu Chen. At CTCRE, she wants to study the health effects of alternative tobacco products and help develop effective counter-marketing strategies against the tobacco industry.