Dr. Rachel Grana is in her second year of a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. She completed her doctorate in Health Behavior Research and Masters in Public Health at the University of Southern California in 2010 and her undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona. Her doctoral work focused on social and cultural predictors of tobacco and other drug use among Hispanic/Latino adolescents. Her current research focuses on smoking cessation among youth and young adults and consumer perceptions of electronic cigarettes. She is particularly interested in the predictors of smoking cessation among youth in late adolescence and early adulthood and the impact of other tobacco product and electronic cigarette use on cessation in these populations.
Dr. Pamela Ling is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on tobacco, media, social marketing, and young adults. The work includes analyses of thousands of previously secret tobacco industry documents detailing industry marketing strategies. Dr. Ling has special interest in the marketing of novel tobacco products including e-cigarettes, the global proliferation of U.S. tobacco marketing strategies, and using market research strategies to inform innovative clinical and public health interventions. She has contributed to three Surgeon General’s Reports on Tobacco and has been member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation since 2016. Dr. Ling has an active clinical practice in General Internal Medicine.
- Understand the basics about electronic cigarettes
- Describe the current marketing of electronic cigarettes
- Understand the public health issues posed by electronic cigarettes