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.

Dieter Meyerhoff, PhD

Professor
Radiology

Defining a new MR spectroscopy-based in vivo biomarker of cerebral oxidative stress, which has been associated with chronic smoking and other substance dependence.

Farzad Moazed, MD

Assistant Professor
Medicine

Jeremiah Mock, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor
Institute for Health & Aging

Dr. Mock conducts collaborative research examining how people’s cultural context shapes their patterns of tobacco use. As a health anthropologist, for over two decades he has focused on examining how and why people’s lived experience of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure is deeply rooted in culture, and how cultural and political-economic change can influence the prevalence of tobacco use within a cultural group, as well as changes in people’s modes and norms of tobacco use. His work has recently expanded to examine the cultural phenomena of young people’s pod-based e-cigarette use (e.g., “juuling”), heated tobacco product (e.g., IQOS) use, and cannabis use.

Ricardo Munoz, PhD

PROF IN RES-MEDCOMP-B
M_Psychiatry

Tung Nguyen, MD

Professor
Medicine

Addressing health disparities using community-based participatory research methods.

Nhung Nguyen, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Medicine

Morgan Philbin, PhD, MHS

Assistant Professor
Medicine

Danielle Ramo-Larios, PhD

Associate Professor
Psychiatry

Using digital media to change health risk behaviors including tobacco, alcohol, and other drug involvement.

Rita Redberg, MD, MS

Professor
Medicine

Effects of secondhand smoke and other work related conditions (radiation) on flight attendants, technology assessment and preventive cardiology.

Sujatha Sankaran, MD

Associate Professor
Medicine

Smoking cessation, particularly in the hospital environment, tobacco use in low and middle income countries.

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