Key personnel include faculty and staff from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University, Washington University in St Louis, the Brookings Institution, East Carolina University, and the University of Kentucky. Our team members have training in biostatistics, communication, epidemiology, evaluation research, health behavior, medicine, public policy, spatial statistics, public health law, and three areas of psychology.

Research Projects

Retailer Density & Disease

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health

Co-Leaders: Kurt Ribisl and Shelley Golden
Read more about Retailer Density & Disease.

Big City Tobacco Control

Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University School of Medicine

Co-Leaders: Lisa Henriksen and Jodi Prochaska
Read more about Big City Tobacco Control.

Tobacco Town

Center for Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Co-Leaders: Douglas Luke and Ross Hammond
Read more about Tobacco Town.

Shared research cores

Administrative

The Administrative Core provides overall guidance and coordination for ASPiRE.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health

Core Leader: Kurt Ribisl

Data & Statistics

The Data & Statistics Core integrates and manages primary and secondary data about the retail environment for tobacco, tobacco control policies, and other shared data sources.
Stanford University School of Medicine

Core Leader: Manisha Desai

Dissemination & Implementation (D&I)

The Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) Core supports the work of the ASPiRE research projects and shared resource cores by enhancing the use of D&I science throughout the Center and accelerating the translation and dissemination of its products.

Core Leader: Douglas Luke

Community Advisory Board (CAB)

Chair: Maggie Mahoney
Read more about the CAB.