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.
Tingting Yao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
The economic impact of tobacco products.
Valerie Yerger, MA, ND
Associate Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences
Tobacco industry targeting African American communities and the use of menthol in tobacco products, smokefree policies in multiunit housing.
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Center Leadership
Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Director, Center for Tobacco Research Control & Education
Pamela Ling, MD MPH
Fellowship Program Director
Joe Guydish, PhD
Co-Director, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center Tobacco Control Program
Research Spotlight
Unlike smoking,conventional smokeless tobacco (ST) (moist snuff, known as dip and chewing tobacco) among US high school students is much higher among males (13%) than females (2%) and is especially high in rural areas. In 2005, ST manufacturers s
