Tiffany is a CDC Tips campaign participant who is here to share her story with us today. She lives in Louisiana and started smoking at age 19, even though her mother died of smoking-related lung cancer. Tiffany smoked about a pack of menthol cigarettes a day until quitting completely in 2012, when her daughter turned 16.
Joy D. Calloway, MBA, MHSA, is a transformational leader with 30 years of health care and nonprofit leadership experience, and with a unique skill set and successful record of serving as interim CEO at organizations in distress or otherwise in transition. Ms.
Carol McGruder is a seasoned veteran of California’s tobacco prevention experience. Carol is a senior project director, activist, researcher, and writer. She has worked in tobacco prevention since 1994.
Dr. Pamela Valera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health and serves as the Ph.D. Director at the School of Public Health, Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.
Ms. Ullstrup has over twenty-five years of experience in substance use and mental health treatment for women. She has been on the Meta House staff since 1995 and was a recipient of their services in 1994. Over her career at Meta House, she has held many different positions within their full continuum of care.
I became a primary care physician to take care of people long term. I became a public health researcher to change the narrative of health for our disproportionately impacted populations, firmly believing that health equity is rooted in all our populations thriving. The most rewarding aspects of my career has been gaining an understanding of how tobacco is an equity issue, learning how to treat tobacco use, and teaching others how to champion tobacco cessation in their practice.
