Tobacco Regulation in an Evolving Landscape: Update from FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products

Duration
60 Minutes
Speakers

Brian A. King, PhD, MPH

Director, Center for Tobacco Products, FDA

Dr. Brian King was appointed Director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) in July 2022. In this position, Dr. King is responsible for assuring that CTP accomplishes its public health goals and for operationalizing the Center’s vision and mission as it implements the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. 
 
Dr. King has worked for nearly two decades to provide sound scientific evidence to inform tobacco control policy and to effectively communicate this information to key stakeholders, including decision makers, the media, and the general public. Prior to joining FDA, he served as the Deputy Director for Research Translation in CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, and more recently as the Executive Editor of CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Series. He has authored more than 200 scientific journal articles related to tobacco prevention and control, served as Senior Associate Editor for multiple U.S. Surgeon General’s Reports on tobacco, and was lead author of CDC’s 2014 evidence-based guide, “Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs.”  
 
Dr. King holds a Ph.D. and M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Webinar Objectives
  • Describe the current patterns of tobacco product use among adults and youth in the United States. 
  • Identify FDA’s tobacco regulatory priorities, including application reviews, regulations and guidance, enforcement and compliance, and public health education campaigns. 
  • Explain future opportunities for tobacco product regulation in the United States, including planned product standards to prohibit menthol in cigarettes, to prohibit flavors in cigars, and to cap the maximum level of nicotine in cigarettes and certain other combusted products to minimally addictive or nonaddictive levels. 
  • Identify opportunities and resources to promote tobacco product use cessation.

Instructions for CME/CE Credit

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ACCME Accreditation

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Disclosures

This UCSF CME activity was planned and developed to uphold academic standards to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor; adhere to requirements to protect health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA); and include a mechanism to inform learners when unapproved or unlabeled uses of therapeutic products or agents are discussed or referenced.

All speakers, planning committee members and reviewers have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Catherine Bonniot, Anita Browning, Christine Cheng, Brian Clark, Brian King, PhD, MPH, Jennifer Matekuare, Ma Krisanta Pamatmat, MPH, Jessica Safier, MA, Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS and Aria Yow, MA.