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Dr. Grace Kong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology with specialization in Child and Adolescent Psychology. Her research focuses on preventing youth tobacco and addictive behaviors through policy development, intervention design, and leveraging social media analytics. She has led NIH-funded studies and advises organizations like the World Health Organization and the National Academies of Sciences.
Dr. Kong’s expertise includes understanding substance use behaviors among youth and marginalized populations through mixed-methods approaches. She collaborates with researchers like Meghan Morean, Dana Cavallo, and Patricia Simon on projects addressing vaping cessation, cannabis co-use, and the impact of social media.
Her work emphasizes innovative methods such as machine learning and generative AI to analyze social media content for tobacco control. Recent studies explore e-cigarette policies, LGBTQ-targeted marketing, and the development of virtual cessation interventions combining CBT with incentives.
Dr. Kong’s research teams include the Tobacco Research in Youth (TRY) group at Yale’s Cancer Center. She is committed to mentoring early-career researchers and advancing health equity through evidence-based strategies.