Kerry Cork serves as Managing Legal Editor and Lead Senior Staff Attorney at the Public Health Law Center, a national nonprofit organization of public health law and policy experts. Kerry has worked at the Center for twenty years, providing legal technical assistance on commercial tobacco and other public health law issues to public health professionals and organizations, lawyers, and advocates throughout the United States. Kerry also oversees the development and dissemination of the Center’s tobacco control publications and resources and leads its tobacco-related communications initiatives. She has published and presented on many tobacco and health law issues and serves as a principal and co-investigator on both national and local tobacco law research grants (including grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, and ClearWay Minnesota). Much of her research focuses on policies to reduce tobacco use among members of vulnerable and marginalized groups, many of whom suffer from mental illness or substance use (e.g., individuals who are homeless, the justice-involved population (adults and youth), residents of assisted living/adult foster care, and public housing). Kerry has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English literature from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
Managing Legal Editor and Lead Senior Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Center