Pebbles Fagan has been named the director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco at the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Fagan will also serve as a professor in the Department of Health Behavior & Health Education in the College of Public Health. She will be responsible for hiring faculty and staff to conduct research and train and mentor students.
“Dr. Fagan has been remarkably productive in securing grants, publishing, establishing a network with other tobacco experts nationally, and developing a range of research experience from basic to more applied research,” said Jim Raczynski, professor and founding dean of the College of Public Health. “She will investigate important tobacco-related questions for Arkansas that can be translated into effective public health practice to reduce tobacco use and related adverse outcomes.”
In the past five years, Fagan has conducted research as an associate professor in the cancer prevention and control program at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. She has more than 20 years of experience in conducting research into tobacco prevention and cancer prevention and control. Her background includes research that aims to reduce health disparities.
She has a doctorate in health education from Texas A&M University, a Master of Public Health in health education and communication from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine and a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and communications and African-American studies from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Peter Emanuel, director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes.
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