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Sharing the latest CTCRE news, publications, fellow and faculty highlights, and important events
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This month, CTCRE is thrilled to welcome four new postdoctoral fellows to the fellowship program and to celebrate the achievements of a departing fellow.
Giovanni Appolon, PhD, RRT, Praveena Fernes, PhD, Alex Matias, PhD, and Julia West, PhD, each bring unique expertise, fresh perspectives, and a deep commitment to careers in tobacco research. Their work will span a range of topics, including tobacco-related health disparities, intersecting toxic exposures, the co-use of multiple tobacco products and other substances, industry marketing and policy impacts, and the cardiovascular effects of tobacco, nicotine, cannabis, and emerging aerosol exposures.
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We also bid farewell and extend our congratulations to Divine Darlington Logo, PhD, as he concludes his time at CTCRE as a Postdoctoral Scholar. During his two years at the center, Dr. Logo focused on cessation strategies and policies to integrate smoking cessation models into primary health services in Ghana, while also strengthening his skills in document research to better understand industry interference in developing countries.
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In case you missed it: CTCRE recently published a special edition newsletter highlighting how UCSF tobacco programs are advancing education across research, provider training, clinical care, and community partnerships.
The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, and the Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center each bring distinct expertise to tobacco control. Together, their work helps build the knowledge, skills, and systems needed to reduce tobacco-related disparities and expand access to effective tobacco treatment.
Read the special edition to learn more about how UCSF programs are working together to address tobacco use, the leading preventable cause of death worldwide.
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The Industry Documents Library has a new Juul Labs Content Guide! With over 5 million files in the collection, it can be tough to know where to start a research project. To help with this, IDL's content experts and archivists broke out the most common research topics and outlined ways to get started. Topics include nicotine, youth prevention, community outreach, flavors, leaking pods, workplace vaping, sales practices, marketing and social media, and more.
See the Juul Guide
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Lauren Lempert, JD, MPH, CTCRE Research Specialist, Stella Bialous, RN, DrPH, FAAN, Associate Director for Global Tobacco Control Initiatives at CTCRE, and Pam Ling, MD, MPH, CTCRE Director, are authors of a special communication in Tobacco Control that discusses a 2020 California state law prohibiting retail sales of most flavored tobacco products with "characterizing flavors", including menthol, and how major tobacco companies vigorously opposed the law and sought its repeal.
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Former CTCRE Fellow Dian Gu, CTCRE Postdoctoral Scholar Mark Hawes, PhD, MSW, and Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS, CTCRE Fellowship Co-Director published a paper in Substance Use & Misuse that found adults experiencing homelessness viewed financial incentives as reinforcing smoking cessation and contributing to improved quality of life.
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Former CTCRE Fellow Divine Darlington Logo, PhD, published a paper in BMJ Open that looked at tobacco use and associated factors among adults in Ghana.
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Mark Hawes, PhD, MSW and Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS, published a paper in Health Promotion Practice that conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews to collect feedback on a new Trauma, Addictions, Mental Health, and Recovery training module.
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Prakash Kodali, PhD, MPhil, MPH, a CTCRE 2025 Visiting Scholar, and Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS, published an article in PLOS One that explored the 2015−16 and 2019−21 Indian National Family Health Surveys to assess the prevalence of healthcare provider advice to quit and its associated factors among male combustible tobacco users.
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Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, published a comment in Nature Human Behaviour that examines the growing evidence on the negative health and public health impacts of e-cigarettes.
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APHA Annual Meeting 2026: CTCRE will be hosting a booth and giving scientific presentations at the APHA Annual Meeting on November 1-4 in-person in San Antonio. Visit us at booth 1844 during the conference to learn more about our research and postdoctoral program! Stay tuned for more details.
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Society for Social Study of Science Conference 2026: CTCRE Postdoctoral fellows will be hosting a panel and giving several presentations during the Society for Social Study of Science (4S) conference in Toronto on October 7-10. Learn more about the 4S conference.
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