Alex Liber
University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology
Tobacco regulations, such as rules on product content, marketing or sales, are only as good as the evidence behind them. Deciding whether a proposed rule will reduce smoking and save lives usually means running a simulation model of a population over time, and such models need realistic numbers as inputs: how often a policy is actually enforced and complied with, how much it changes behavior, and how much harm different tobacco products cause.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
tobacco regulation
tobacco control policy
tobacco regulatory science
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2028
What they work on
- Analyze how tobacco regulatory policies perform once implemented, using detailed comparative case studies and policy surveillance that tracks the laws in force across jurisdictions.
- Conduct evidence syntheses to produce informed estimates of the behavioral impacts of tobacco regulations and the health effects of tobacco use, for use as inputs to the center's simulation models.
- Translate and disseminate the center's research findings to the FDA Center for Tobacco Products and the broader tobacco regulatory and control community, tailoring outputs to policymaking, scientific and lay audiences.
More about the research
Supplying those numbers, and getting the resulting findings to the people who write rules, is the job of this work.
Why it matters
Tobacco regulation decisions depend on estimates of how policies change behavior and how much different products harm health. By producing better-grounded parameters and delivering findings in a form regulators can use, this work could help the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products and state and local policymakers choose rules more likely to reduce tobacco-related illness and death.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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The school
University of Michigan: 124 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 963 research doctorates a year.
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