University of California San Francisco Give to UCSF

The UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) is excited to announce the 2022 lineup of featured speakers for our annual event - "It's About a Billion Lives" Symposium, which will be held on Friday, January 28, 2022. 

Keynote Speaker: Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

"Social Justice and Deconstructing Racism in the Tobacco Prevention & Control Movement"

"Effects of aerosol from e-cigarettes and marijuana on arterial function" - Poonam Rao, MBBS, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

"Using Big Data to Understand the Health Effects of Cannabis" - Salomeh Keyhani, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at the San Francisco Veterans Administration

"E-cigarettes, medications, dietary supplements & the regulation road less traveled" - Candy Tsourounis, PharmD, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy

"Tobacco Industry Influence on Smoke-free Policies in Multi-Unit Housing: An Evaluation of Tobacco Industry Documents" - Joshua Miller, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

Closing Remarks, Alicia Fernandez, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General

Event Details

See Who Is Interested

  • Sana

1 person is interested in this event


UCSF promotes the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives, acknowledging that the views and opinions of our guest speakers on campus are their own and may not reflect the perspective of the University. We embrace free speech in the pursuit of greater understanding, consistent with our obligations as a public university under the First Amendment.