Dr. Andy Tan (he/him) leads the Health Communication and Equity Lab (HCEL) at the Annenberg School at Penn. His research aims to advance communication science to achieve health equity for all. He conducts community-engaged research involving organizations that serve LGBTQ+ communities to design and develop culturally appropriate communication to prevent and reduce tobacco use in youth and young adults. The HCEL utilizes mixed-methods research designs informed by persuasion and message effects theories, social determinants of health frameworks, and implementation science. The goal of this work is to translate this knowledge into scalable and culturally sensitive communication interventions to reduce tobacco- and cancer-related health disparities.
Jason M. Satterfield, PhD is the Academy Endowed Chair for Innovation in Teaching and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Science in brain sciences from MIT and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Satterfield’s current interests include the integration of behavioral science in medical education, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based behavioral practices in primary care, and emerging mobile health technologies for behavioral health with a particular focus on smoking and substance use disorders.
Join the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF’s Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center, and UCSF’s Smoking Cessation Leadership Center on Friday, April 17, 2026 at the UCSF Robertson Auditorium for the 18th annual It’s About a Billion Lives Symposium.
This year’s symposium will center on the theme “Together for Health Equity.” Now more than ever, advancing tobacco control and achieving health equity requires a shared commitment to amplify one another’s work, strengthen partnerships, and align our efforts to drive lasting impact.
This in-person event will also be available online.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify structural and environmental factors that contribute to tobacco-related inequities in permanent supportive housing and explain how place-based interventions can address them.
- Describe the complementary roles of evidence-based communication science and participatory co-design approaches in creating effective health interventions for sexual and gender minority youth and young adults.
- Explain the potential uses of generative AI agents in smoking cessation and how they may influence health equity, including potential benefits (e.g., increased access, multilingual support, scalability) and risks (e.g., digital divide, algorithmic bias, data privacy concerns), and propose strategies to mitigate disparities in underserved populations.
- Identify cultural, social, and structural barriers that influence smoking, smoking cessation, and mental health service utilization in older Vietnamese American communities.
- Describe the relationship between mental health and smoking behaviors among older Vietnamese American smokers.
- Discuss the perspectives of smoking cessation providers and mental health providers on integrating mental health support with smoking cessation services.
- Describe the differences in complete tobacco pack-year documentation based on patient demographic factors and recognize how these disparities may impact clinical care.
- Describe how young adults in the Bay Area and Central California counteract tobacco marketing and influence.
The webinar recording listed above is the Key Note presentation. Here are the recordings of the additional presentations:
- Putting Out Cigarettes with Code- Can Artificial Intelligence Level the Playing Field with Dr. Jason Satterfield - https://ucsf.box.com/s/f2e572lnoeoptu7tfc0df55g2g91yeh6
- Meeting People Where They Are - Reducing Tobacco Use and Exposure in Permanent Supportive Housing with Dr. Mark Hawes - https://ucsf.box.com/s/fmgkzbhqp9q1brf3wxaizvsqlxice4va
- Where There's Smoke - Youth Perspectives on Tobacco and Health Equity - Student Presentations - https://ucsf.box.com/s/w1xwet2jbuz1lsn5u0o5h78k01c0c2f3
- MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award Winner: Vuong Do, PhD - https://ucsf.box.com/s/qtvas40z8frk0arlrhaye1hs1gf2kpix
- MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award Winner: Dan Kabella, PhD - https://ucsf.box.com/s/vfly72typct61up277v6bijpcvg0pkcc
- MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award Winner: Adali Martinez, MD, MPH - https://ucsf.box.com/s/94uk4xa77ww35fh01wvvgmojzt3y1zzw