Raymond S Niaura

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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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.

Education

BA, Psychology (First Class Honors), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

MS, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

PhD, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Honors and awards

Research Laureate, American Academy of Health Behavior (2009)

University Scholar Award, McGill University (1979)

Areas of research and study

Alcohol, Tobacco and Driving Policies

Evaluations

Health Disparities

Substance Abuse

Tobacco Control

Publications

Misperceptions of harm among Natural American Spirit smokers: Results from wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study (2013-2014)

Overview of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A Systematic Review

Preliminary evaluation of a telephone-based smoking cessation intervention in the lung cancer screening setting: A randomized clinical trial

The application of a decision-theoretic model to estimate the public health impact of vaporized nicotine product initiation in the United States

Young adult non-smokers' exposure to real-world tobacco marketing: Results of an ecological momentary assessment pilot study

An experimental study of the effects of electronic cigarette warnings on young adult nonsmokers' perceptions and behavioral intentions

Baseline Characteristics and Generalizability of Participants in an Internet Smoking Cessation Randomized Trial

Changes in the prevalence and correlates of menthol cigarette use in the USA, 2004–2014

Characteristics of U.S. Substance abuse treatment facilities offering HIV services: Results from a national survey

Epigenetic Regulation of Placental NR3C1: Mechanism Underlying Prenatal Programming of Infant Neurobehavior by Maternal Smoking?

Impact of Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertising on Susceptibility and Trial of Electronic Cigarettes and Cigarettes in US Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Mathematical modeling in tobacco control research: Initial Results From a Systematic Review

Medical costs and quality-adjusted life years associated with smoking: A systematic review

Patterns of electronic cigarette use among adults in the United States

Smoking Status and Substance Use Treatment Outcomes Among Spanish Speakers Enrolled in Substance Abuse Treatment

The impact of health warning labels for Swedish snus advertisements on young adults' snus perceptions and behavioral intentions

The Influence of Social Support on Smoking Cessation Treatment Adherence Among HIV+ Smokers

Varenicline and suicide: Reconsidered and reconciled

Young adult smokers' neural response to graphic cigarette warning labels

Cigarette packaging and health warnings: The impact of plain packaging and message framing on young smokers

Cigarettes: The Rise and Decline But Not Demise of the Greatest Behavioral Health Disaster of the 20th Century

Abrams, D., Glasser, A., Villanti, A., & Niaura, R. (n.d.). In R. Kaplan, M. Spittel, & D. David (Eds.), Population health: Behavioral and social science insights (1–).

Publication year

2015

Page(s)

143-168