Leading with Race & Structural Racism to Advance Health Equity in Tobacco

Jacqueline Doane is the Manager of Community Programs for the Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program (MTCP) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She has spent nearly a decade fighting injustices caused by the tobacco industry in Massachusetts, specializing in program development and management. She has successfully advocated and mobilized communities for policy change and building community capacity to address tobacco and secondhand smoke issues. In her current role at MTCP, Ms. Doane oversees municipal, community-based, and statewide programs that are responsible for local policy and enforcement, reducing secondhand smoke exposure, community mobilization, and authentic youth engagement.

Lindsay Kephart is an Epidemiologist and part of the evaluation team for the Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program (MTCP) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. For the past four years, she has supported MTCP through surveillance, evaluation, analysis, and dissemination, including mapping and visualization. Her current efforts focus around addressing tobacco-related inequities in the built and social environment. She received her Master of Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine with a concentration in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.