The world-renowned specialists and subspecialists in the Keller-Hamilton Lab recognize how their groundbreaking work can thoughtfully impact the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, as well as how tobacco use drives health disparities among different populations.
Mission
At the OSUCCC – James, the Keller-Hamilton Lab’s mission is to equitably reduce the prevalence of tobacco use through policy approaches.
Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. It also drives health disparities related to socioeconomic status, race, geography and sexual orientation.
Tobacco marketing, including advertisements and prices, and characteristics of tobacco products, like flavors and nicotine concentration, impact tobacco use across several populations. The experts in the Keller-Hamilton Lab believe that regulations that address these marketing methods and tobacco characteristics, if thoughtfully studied and applied, can reduce tobacco use overall and in populations that currently see disparately high levels of tobacco use.