DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES
PUBLIC HEALTH SEMINAR
Presented by: Erin Mead-Morse, Ph.D.
TITLE: “Addressing tobacco use and disparities through tobacco regulatory science”
DATE: Monday, Feb. 26
TIME: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: 195 Farmington Ave., Rm. U3071A/B & Webex
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Erin Mead-Morse, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut, School of Medicine. She is a social-behavioral public health researcher in the areas of tobacco control and regulatory science with an emphasis on health equity. Dr. Mead-Morse conducts multi-modal research to understand the multilevel risk factors for the use of tobacco and nicotine products, their health effects, and communication about these products and their risks in high-priority populations, with the goal of informing interventions and policy. She is currently the principal investigator of an NIH-funded study examining the effects of flavorings in little cigars on addiction and smoking in young adults who smoke both cigarettes and cigars, and the principal investigator of a recently completed NIH-funded study examining the effects of e-cigarette use during pregnancy on maternal and child health. Dr. Mead-Morse received her PhD at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Maryland’s Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science.
For more information, contact: Lisa Cook at lcook@uchc.edu