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
The impact of health warning labels for Swedish snus advertisements on young adults' snus perceptions and behavioral intentions
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Failed retrieving data.Varenicline and suicide : Reconsidered and reconciled
Failed retrieving data.Young adult smokers' neural response to graphic cigarette warning labels
Failed retrieving data.Cigarette packaging and health warnings : The impact of plain packaging and message framing on young smokers
Failed retrieving data.Cigarettes: The Rise and Decline But Not Demise of the Greatest Behavioral Health Disaster of the 20th Century
Failed retrieving data.Differential trends in cigarette smoking in the USA : Is menthol slowing progress?
Failed retrieving data.E-Cigarettes and smoking cessation : Insights and cautions from a secondary analysis of data from a study of online treatment-seeking smokers
Failed retrieving data.Internet and telephone treatment for smoking cessation : Mediators and moderators of short-term abstinence
Failed retrieving data.Markov modeling to estimate the population health impact of emerging tobacco products: A proof-of-concept study
Failed retrieving data.Maternal-fetal attachment differentiates patterns of prenatal smoking and exposure
Failed retrieving data.Mathematical modelling in tobacco control research : Protocol for a systematic review
Failed retrieving data.Outcomes of a tailored intervention for cigarette smoking cessation among latinos living with HIV/AIDS
Failed retrieving data.Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modeling of the effect of varenicline on nicotine craving in adult smokers
Failed retrieving data.Prospective evaluation of associations between prenatal cortisol and adulthood coronary heart disease risk : The New England family study
Failed retrieving data.The importance of science-informed policy and what the data really tell us about e-cigarettes
Failed retrieving data.The other combustible products : Prevalence and correlates of little cigar/cigarillo use among cigarette smokers
Failed retrieving data.Authoritative parenting and cigarette smoking among multiethnic preadolescents : The mediating role of anti-tobacco parenting strategies
Failed retrieving data.Delivering on its promises : The PROMIS® smoking initiative item banks
Failed retrieving data.Effects of sequential fluoxetine and gender on prequit depressive symptoms, affect, craving, and quit day abstinence in smokers with elevated depressive symptoms : A growth curve modeling approach
Failed retrieving data.Efficacy of sequential use of fluoxetine for smoking cessation in elevated depressive symptom smokers
Failed retrieving data.Impact of tobacco control policy on quitting and nicotine dependence among women in five European countries
Failed retrieving data.Influences of tobacco advertising exposure and conduct problems on smoking behaviors among adolescent males and females
Failed retrieving data.Maternal smoking during pregnancy and infant stress response : Test of a prenatal programming hypothesis
Failed retrieving data.Parental smoking exposure and adolescent smoking trajectories
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