Staff: Michele Bloch, M.D., Ph.D.

Michele Bloch

Michele Bloch, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief, TCRB
Organization: Contact:
blochm@mail.nih.gov
240-276-6878

Michele Bloch, M.D., Ph.D., is Chief of the Tobacco Control Research Branch within the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Bloch received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. She received her doctor of medicine and doctor of philosophy degrees (pharmacology) from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, where she completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology.

Dr. Bloch's research interests include tobacco control policy research, research on effective tobacco control policy and program interventions for women and girls, and international tobacco control research. She provided scientific guidance to the Fogarty International Center as it developed its Request for Applications regarding research and capacity building on international tobacco control and to the National Institute of Child Health and Development's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Tobacco and Pregnancy Survey.

At NCI, Dr. Bloch's duties include management of grants, independent research, and service duties, including helping to disseminate important tobacco control and prevention research findings to the general public. Dr. Bloch is a member of the American Public Health Association, having served as Chair of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Section from 1997-98. She is also a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.


Current and/or past BRP mentees include Frank Perna and Kelly Blake.


Research Areas

  • Women's tobacco use
  • Global tobacco control research
  • Tobacco control policy research

Selected Publications and Presentations

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