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The Center faculty come from all four UCSF schools and conduct research and teaching in every aspect of tobacco control, from efforts by the tobacco industry to manipulate international politics to the molecular biology of nicotine addiction.

 

Valerie Gribben, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor
Pediatrics

Valerie Gribben, MD, FAAP is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF.  Research interests include: reducing primary and secondhand vaping, cigarette, and marijuana exposure in children and teens; vaping patterns of teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic; the intersection between digital usage and vaping; social media interventions to assist in vaping cessation; and health disparities in tobacco use and exposure. 

Dian Gu, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine

Dian Gu, PhD, received her doctorate in Health Economics/Health Services Research from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Along with her PhD study, she was a PhD trainee in MD Anderson Cancer Center. In that role, she gained experience in applying health economics to cancer research, collaborating on manuscripts with clinicians on multiple projects concerned with cancer patients’ healthcare utilization, expenditures, and health outcomes.

Joe Guydish, PhD

Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies

Research on access, delivery, and organization of substance abuse treatment services, treatment effectiveness, and adoption of new treatments into practice settings. He is currently testing an organizational change intervention for treatment programs in tobacco dependence. Joseph Guydish, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the University of California, San Francisco.   His research concerns access, delivery, and organization of substance abuse treatment services.

Amy Hafez, PhD

Access Extension
M_Cardiovascular Research Inst

Sharon Hall, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Psychiatry

Major areas of research are clinical trials for the treatment of nicotine dependence, with emphasis on treatments that reflect a chronic disease model, and on complex populations. Dr. Hall's research is on the treatment of drug abuse, especially tobacco dependence, and better understanding the processes of change through randomized clinical trials and related studies. She is especially interested in the treatment of comorbidities in special populations, and the complexities that comorbidities introduce into treatment.

Deanna Halliday, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Cardiovascular Research Inst

Deanna M. Halliday, PhD, received her doctorate in Psychological Sciences (Health Psychology) from the University of California, Merced under the mentorship of UCSF alumna Dr. Anna Song. Prior to joining the CTCRE, she was awarded a TRDRP pre-doctoral fellowship for her dissertation work on tobacco and cannabis co-use. Her work examines the multi-level factors that contribute to tobacco and cannabis use spanning from internal psychological factors to social and community-level factors. Dr.

Eileen Han, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine

Eileen Han, PhD, received her doctorate in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. During and after her PhD studies, she mainly conducted qualitative research about social media, with a focus on collective memory and social activism. She published a book about social media and collective memory in China, which was an expansion of her dissertation research.

Arit Harvanko, PhD

Access Extension
M_Cardiovascular Research Inst

Mark Hawes, PhD, MSSW

Postdoctoral Scholar
Cardiovascular Research Inst

Mark Hawes, MSW, PhD, received his doctorate in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work where he was funded by the NIMH as a T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellow. During his time at the Brown School, he was affiliated with the Center for Mental Health Services Research, worked on projects aiming to reduce health inequities among people with serious mental illness, and co-taught a gradate course on behavioral health policy and services.

Judith Hellman, MD

Professor
Anesthesia

My research program is focused on basic and translational research on sepsis and other forms of inflammation-driven acute organ failure ("Inflammatory Critical Illness"). Sepsis and multiple organ failure are leading causes of death in the Intensive Care Unit. These processes result from a complex inflammatory response that is initiated through the innate immune system by interactions between host cells and microbes or endogenous host factors that are released during injury or cell death.

Yogi Hendlin, PhD

Research Associate, WOS
M_ObGyn-MFM-Core-PRHE

Yogi Hale Hendlin earned his PhD in Environmental Philosophy at the University of Kiel, Germany, after completing doctoral work at UCLA, a Master's at the London School of Economics, and degrees at UC Berkeley. Hendlin's interests are at the intersection of public health policy, social and environmental justice, business ethics, and the philosophy of science.

Carolyn Hendrickson, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Medicine

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