Jihyoun Jeon
University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology
Deciding how to regulate tobacco products requires numbers that are hard to get right: how many people use each product, at what ages they start and quit, how heavily they use, and how their death rates differ from nonusers. Those numbers come from many separate studies that measure tobacco use in different ways, which makes results hard to compare and hard to feed into the simulation models that project the population-level effects of policy choices.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Mathematics & Statistics
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
tobacco control
smoking
cigarettes
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2028
What they work on
- Provide uniform data processing and analysis services across the Center's four research projects, pilot projects, and the wider TCORS Consortium so that results are produced to consistent standards.
- Harmonize measures of tobacco use across research projects so that prevalence, initiation, cessation and intensity estimates can be compared and combined.
- Estimate product-specific tobacco use parameters, including prevalence, initiation and cessation rates and intensity of use, stratified by age, sex, calendar year, and birth cohort.
- Estimate mortality rates by tobacco use status and build the infrastructure to disseminate these parameters, the modeling tools, and modeling results to the FDA Center for Tobacco Products and other researchers.
More about the research
This work addresses that gap by serving as the shared data and modeling backbone for a tobacco research center.
Why it matters
Tobacco regulation depends on credible projections of how many lives a given policy would save, and those projections are only as good as the use and mortality parameters fed into them. By standardizing those estimates across studies and sharing them with the FDA Center for Tobacco Products and other research teams, this work could make regulatory analyses of cigarettes and newer tobacco products more consistent and better grounded.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology
Analyze how tobacco regulatory policies perform once implemented, using detailed comparative case studies and policy surveillance that tracks the laws in force across jurisdictions.
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Yale University, CT·Public Health & Epidemiology
Refine an ENDS nicotine concentration label so its strength categories are anchored to cigarette nicotine content, using expert feedback and focus groups.
Rafael Meza
University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology
Characterize patterns of cigarette, cigar and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use across US population groups defined by sex, age and education level.
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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