Raymond S Niaura
Raymond S Niaura
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Dr. Raymond Niaura is a psychologist and an expert on tobacco dependence and treatment, as well as substance use and addiction to alcohol. Dr. Niaura researches the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories. He also evaluates behavioral and pharmacological treatments for tobacco cessation, with a particular interest in cessation in disadvantaged population to address public health disparities in tobacco-related burdens of illness and disability.
For eight year, Dr. Niaura was the Director of Science and Training at the Schroeder Institute (SI) for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative, where he also supervised the pre- and post-doctoral training programs. Dr. Niaura has previously taught and conducted research at Brown University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Georgetown Medical Center, and the School of Public Health at University of Maryland. He was also a former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and is a Deputy Editor of the Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
With grants from the National Institutes of Health, numerous foundations, and private industry, Dr. Niaura has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, and book chapters, including the book The Tobacco Dependence Treatment Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices.
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Education
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BA, Psychology (First Class Honors), McGill University, Montreal, CanadaMS, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJPhD, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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Honors and awards
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Research Laureate, American Academy of Health Behavior (2009)University Scholar Award, McGill University (1979)
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Areas of research and study
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Driving PoliciesEvaluationsHealth DisparitiesSubstance AbuseTobacco Control
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Publications
Publications
Fostering transparency in e-cigarette research synthesis : the utility and limitations of methodological hierarchies
Failed retrieving data.Harm Minimization and Tobacco Control : Reframing Societal Views of Nicotine Use to Rapidly Save Lives
Failed retrieving data.How do we determine the impact of e-cigarettes on cigarette smoking cessation or reduction? Review and recommendations for answering the research question with scientific rigor
Failed retrieving data.Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey Data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control : the Case for Egypt
Failed retrieving data.Longitudinal associations between youth tobacco and substance use in waves 1 and 2 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study
Failed retrieving data.Managing nicotine without smoke to save lives now : Evidence for harm minimization
Failed retrieving data.Mental Health Problems and Onset of Tobacco Use Among 12- to 24-Year-Olds in the PATH Study
Failed retrieving data.Neural correlates of tobacco cue reactivity predict duration to lapse and continuous abstinence in smoking cessation treatment
Failed retrieving data.Patterns of nicotine and tobacco product use in youth and young adults in the United States, 2011-2015
Failed retrieving data.Pooled analysis of three randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trials with rimonabant for smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes
Failed retrieving data.Prevalence and correlates of smoking among people living with HIV in South Africa
Failed retrieving data.Qualitative exploration of a smoking cessation trial for people living with HIV in South Africa
Failed retrieving data.Transitions in tobacco product use by u.S. adults between 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 : Findings from the path study wave 1 and wave 2
Failed retrieving data.A framework for evaluating the public health impact of e-cigarettes and other vaporized nicotine products
Failed retrieving data.Analysis of E-cigarette use in the 2014 Eurobarometer survey : calling out deficiencies in epidemiology methods
Failed retrieving data.Association of TAS2R38 haplotypes and menthol cigarette preference in an African American cohort
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of ecological momentary assessment versus direct measurement of E-cigarette use with a bluetooth-enabled E-cigarette:a pilot study
Failed retrieving data.Computational models used to assess US tobacco control policies
Failed retrieving data.Crowdsourced data collection for public health : A comparison with nationally representative, population tobacco use data
Failed retrieving data.Design and methods of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study
Failed retrieving data.Determining non-cigarette tobacco, alcohol, and substance use typologies across menthol and non-menthol smokers using latent class analysis
Failed retrieving data.Developing consistent and transparent models of E-cigarette use : Reply to Glantz and Soneji et al.
Failed retrieving data.Electronic cigarette use among US adults in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013–2014
Failed retrieving data.Erratum to : Analysis of E-cigarette use in the 2014 Eurobarometer survey: calling out deficiencies in epidemiology methods (Intern Emerg Med, 10.1007/s11739-017-1667-z)
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