A smoke-free home intervention in permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless adults

Dr. Vijayaraghavan is a practicing general internist and a researcher in tobacco control with a focus on populations experiencing homelessness. She is the Director of the UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a Center focused on eliminating disparities in tobacco use prevalence among behavioral health populations. Through her work, funded by the NIH and the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, she has intervened at the individual, community, health systems, and policy levels to increase access to tobacco treatment and tobacco-free policies. She has collaborated with homeless shelters and supportive housing to implement interventions to increase access to smoking cessation services and smoke-free policies for people who have experienced homelessness with co-occurring mental health and substance us disorders. She co-directs a NIDA-funded postdoctoral training program at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, focused on tobacco and substance use related research. She practices primary care at the San Francisco General Hospital.