Dr. Dana Mowls Carroll is an epidemiologist and certified tobacco treatment specialist addressing commercial tobacco use disparities, particularly among American Indian and rural populations. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications that include describing the co-design and evaluation of digital smoking cessation interventions for American Indian persons. Also, she contributes through epidemiology and clinical trials to the evidence base on potential cigarette product standards, such a reducing levels of nicotine which she views as another avenue for reducing commercial tobacco use disparities. In her community-engaged research, she devotes considerable effort to ensuring that the results of her research do not just land in scientific journals, but also shared with research participants and community partners via community facing reports and infographics. In 2023, her contributions to co-creating smoking cessation resources for American Indian persons was highlighted by the White House as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Cancer Moonshot Agenda to end cancer.
Dana Mowls Carroll, Ph.D., M.P.H.
McKnight Presidential Fellow, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota