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Jennifer Cantrell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the NYU School of Global Public Health. Her research focuses on tobacco/nicotine use trends, industry marketing, and interventions to reduce tobacco's appeal and promote health equity. She leads an NCI-funded grant using MOST methodology to optimize cessation treatments for smokers with HIV. Dr. Cantrell has authored over 70 articles, including works in American Journal of Public Health and Addiction, and received the NIH Loan Repayment Program Award for her work on health disparities.
Education: DrPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health; MPA from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Postdoctoral training at National Development Research Institutes’ NIDA program. Previously, she was a Managing Director and Scientist at Truth Initiative, leading anti-smoking campaigns like the award-winning truth® campaign.
Research Interests: Tobacco industry strategies, digital counter-marketing, implementation science, and policy interventions. She chairs the NYU CADIO’s Early Career Faculty Outreach and co-leads a NIDA R25 training grant on intervention optimization.
Grants & Awards: NCI R01CA268932 (2023–present), NIH Loan Repayment Program (2018–2021), and 2017 Berreth Award for the truth® campaign proposal.
Labs/Teams: Co-Investigator in NYU CADIO, member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco’s Health Equity Network. Active in global intervention optimization training.
