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Research Overview

With the goal of addressing tobacco-related risks and disease, Dr. Gaiha’s research agenda includes three complementary areas:

  1. assessing youth patterns of substance use
  2. examining the impact of policies on youth e-cigarette use, and
  3. evaluating e-cigarette education programs among youth. For transformative contributions in tobacco regulatory research related to adolescents and young adults, she received the Career Development Award in Adolescent Health (Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine) and Travel Award (Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco).
     

Research Background

Shivani Mathur Gaiha is a public health researcher and PI in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the Boston Children’s Hospital and a member of the Faculty of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Prior to this role, Dr. Gaiha was an Instructor and completed her postdoctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Through the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Regulatory Science, Dr. Gaiha aims to identify appealing and influential characteristics of e-cigarette marketing in the retail environment to inform counter-marketing and prevention communication and education.

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