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Dr. Fagan is a Health Scientist in the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She received her B.A. in Rhetoric/Communications and Afro-American Studies from the University of Virginia (1990), her M.P.H. in Health Education/Communications from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1994), and her doctorate in Health Education from Texas A&M University (1997). Dr. Fagan completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2001).
Her research during her post-doctoral fellowship focused on smoking cessation among adolescents, pregnant women, and service and blue-collar workers. As part of her community work in Boston, Dr. Fagan helped to organize community-based efforts to reduce cancer-related disparities and served as Vice President for the Greater Boston Chapter of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer. Her current research and publications focus on youth tobacco cessation, young adult tobacco use, and tobacco-related health disparities. Dr. Fagan led efforts to facilitate the publication of the NCI report, Eliminating Tobacco-Related Health Disparities Summary Report (2005); Tobacco and Health Disparities, American Journal of Public Health (2004); Advances and Challenges in Youth Tobacco Research, Tobacco Control (2003); and the NCI Bibliography of Tobacco-Related Literature on Hispanics, 1990-2001 (2001). Dr. Fagan led efforts to organize the National Conference on Tobacco and Health Disparities in 2002, worked with other NCI colleagues to organize the Minority Investigator Career Development Program Planning Meeting in 2003, and the 1st and 2nd Biennial Career Development Workshop to Increase Diversity in Research Funding in 2004 and 2006. In collaboration with NCI partners and the American Legacy Foundation, Dr. Fagan provided leadership in organizing a working meeting to review the state of the science on light and intermittent smokers (2005) and is working with others to stimulate research in this area.
Dr. Fagan is collaborating with partners within NCI, the American Legacy Foundation, and extramural researchers to support the activities of the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND). Through this transdisciplinary national network, she is helping to stimulate novel research that advances our understanding of tobacco health disparities science, translates that science into practice, and informs public policies. TReND activities include hosting the Health Disparities Research Methods Training Symposium in 2006; the LGBT of Color Sampling Methodology Meeting in 2006; and facilitating the Low SES Women and Girls Project and the project on Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Tobacco and Health Disparities, which resulted in the publication of Tobacco Control Policies on Low SES Women and Girls, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006 and Conceptual and Methodological Issues for Research on Tobacco-Related Health Disparities, Addiction, 2007.
In 2006, Dr. Fagan received a National Cancer Institute Director’s Award for her collaborative work in training minority investigators and was recognized by Aetna Insurance in the Aetna African American History Calendar, 25th Anniversary Edition for her work in tobacco-related health disparities. In 2007, she received the National Institutes of Health Merit Award for her leadership in tobacco related health disparities research. Dr. Fagan serves as a standing member of NCI Health Disparities Interest Groups, the NCI Tobacco Research Opportunities Team and Surveillance Workgroup, Partners Addressing Disparities in Priority Populations, the Tobacco Control Research Branch Community Policy Team, the Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative, and the NCI Women, Tobacco, and Cancer Communications Workgroup. She is a member of the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Health Behavior, and serves as Co-Chair of the Tobacco and Health Disparities Committee of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. She has presented research at national and international conferences and has published in peer-reviewed journals. She has served as a guest and co-editor of special journal issues. Dr. Fagan also mentors student trainees interested in tobacco-related health disparities or youth prevention and cessation.
Within the Tobacco Control Research Branch, Dr. Fagan is responsible for overseeing grants and contracts that address youth tobacco cessation and tobacco-related health disparities; collaborating with multiple funding and academic organizations to build capacity and implement a blueprint that identifies ways to help youth and young adults quit smoking; managing the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities, a transdisciplinary research initiative aimed to reduce tobacco-related health disparities among low socioeconomic status and minority racial/ethnic groups; co-managing initiatives aimed at building technical and research skills in an effort to increase the number of minorities, underserved, and disabled grantees in the National Institutes of Health grant pool; supervising interns and providing mentoring opportunities to young scientists; planning, implementing, and coordinating scientific meetings that aim to stimulate research in understudied areas of science; and developing written, oral, and website communications to disseminate scientific findings.
Select Publications and Presentations:
Fagan, P., Shavers, V., Lawrence, D., Gibson, J.T., & O’Connell, M. (In press). Employment characteristics and socioeconomic factors associated with smoking abstinence and former smoking among U.S. workers. Journal of Health Care of the Poor and Underserved.
Backinger, C.L., Noel, C., Jefferson, A.M., Fagan, P., Hurd, A.L., & Grana, R. (2007). Factors associated with recruitment and retention of youth into cessation intervention studies: A review of the literature. Health Education Research, [epub ahead of print].
Fagan, P., Lawrence, D., Moolchan, E.T., Fernander, A., & Ponder, P. (2007). Identifying health disparities across the tobacco continuum. Addiction, 102 (suppl 2), 5-29.
Moolchan, E.T., Hayward, M., Fagan, P., Fernander, A., King, G., & Clayton, R. (2007). Addressing tobacco-related health disparities. Addiction, 102 (suppl 2), 30-42.
Fagan, P., Augustson, E, Backinger, C.L., O’Connell, M., Vollinger, R., Kaufman, A, & Gibson, J.T. (2007). Quit attempts and intention to quit among young adults ages 18-30 in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 97(8), 1412-20.
Fagan, P., Shavers, V., Lawrence, D., Gibson, J.T., & Ponder, P. (2007). Cigarette smoking and quitting behaviors among unemployed adults in the United States. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 9(2), 241-248.
Lawrence, D., Fagan, P., Backinger, C.L., Gibson, J.T., & Hartman, A . (2007). Cigarette smoking patterns among young adults ages 18-24 in the U.S. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 9(6), 687-697.
Shavers, V., Fagan, P., Alexander, L.A., Clayton, R., Doucet, J., & Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2006). Workplace and home smoking restrictions and racial/ethnic variation in the prevalence and intensity of current cigarette smoking among women by poverty status, TUS-CPS 1998-1999 and 2001-2002. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 60 (Suppl 2), ii34-ii43.
King, G., Polednak, A., Fagan, P., Fernander, A., Gilreath, T., Humphrey, E., Bendel, R., & Noubary, F. (2006). Heterogeneity in the smoking behavior of African American women. American Journal of Health Behavior, 30(3), 237-246.
Fagan, P., King, G., Lawrence, D., Petrucci, S.A., Robinson, R.G., Banks, D., Marable, S., & Grana, R. (2004). Eliminating tobacco-related health disparities: Directions for future research. American Journal of Public Health, 94(2), 211-217.
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