Interviews with some of the TReND researchers

Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH

Tobacco Control Research Branch
National Cancer Institute

"To eliminate disparities, we need high risk, cutting edge, innovative research. It was important to provide a venue for doing so."

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Donna Vallone, PhD

American Legacy Foundation

"The tobacco industry is continuing to develop and market products to various communities including youth and communities of color.

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Prakash Gupta, PhD

Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health

"Within the near future the epidemic will decrease or remain stagnant in the industrialized countries but would increase rapidly in the developing world."

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Deborah McLellan, MHS, PhD

Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 

"We need to move beyond a parochial focus on tobacco use and improve the social and living conditions in which many women and girls live."

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A quotation reads: “Embedded in the challenge to eliminate health disparities is the need to address tobacco use and related diseases among underserved and understudied populations.” —“Eliminating Tobacco-Related Health Disparities: Directions for Future Research,” American Journal of Public Health

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