Faculty

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.

Benjamin Chaffee, DDS, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor
Preventive & Restor Dent Sci

Understand how behaviors, biological attributes, and social circumstances influence health and disease distributions, often inequitably, across populations.

Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH

Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Examining the role of biological, lifestyle, environmental, and neighborhood factors in relation to cancer risk with an emphasis on understanding racial/ethnic differences in risk.

Jing Cheng, MD, MS, PhD

Professor
Preventive & Restor Dent Sci

Assessment of the impact of tobacco use on health outcomes and healthcare expenditures.

Beth Cohen, MD, MA

ASSOC PROF IN RES-HCOMP
Medicine

Dr. Cohen is an internist and clinical investigator whose research focuses on health outcomes in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. She is Principal Investigator of the Mind Your Heart Study, a prospective cohort study designed to examine the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder on cardiovascular health.

Robin Corelli, PharmD

Vice Dean & Professor
Clinical Pharmacy

Tobacco cessation education and training to estimate the impact of approaches for generating community pharmacy-based referrals to tobacco cessation telephone quitlines.

Jennifer Fung, PhD

Professor In Residence
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH

Professor

Oral health research, health disparities research, applied statistical analyses and related methodological issues.

Peter Ganz, MD

Professor in Residence
Medicine

Cardiovascular effects and potential harms of conventional, new and emerging tobacco products.

Warren Gold, MD

Professor Emeritus
Medicine

Long-term effects of second hand cigarette smoke on flight attendants.

Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH

Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

The role of social determinants of health, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, immigration status, sociocultural factors, and neighborhood contextual characteristics, on health outcomes.

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