Staff: Annette Kaufman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Annette Kaufman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
kaufmana@mail.nih.gov
240-276-6706
Annette Kaufman, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Health Scientist and Program Director in the Tobacco Control Research Branch (TCRB), Behavioral Research Program (BRP), Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She obtained her Doctorate in Applied Social Psychology from The George Washington University and Master of Public Health in quantitative methods from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her post-doctoral training as a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Office of the Director (OAD) in the Behavioral Research Program. Dr. Kaufman is actively involved in the development and implementation of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) and the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study. Her program of research focuses on tobacco product harm judgments and risk perceptions associated with tobacco use. Dr. Kaufman is particularly interested in the influence of policy on tobacco beliefs and behavior.
Secondary Branch/Office Appointment:
Office of the Associate Director (OAD)
Current and/or past BRP mentors include William Klein.
Current and/or past BRP mentees include Lia Sorgen and Andrew Seidenberg.
Research Areas
- Tobacco control
- Policy
- Applied social psychology
- Risk perception
- Multiple health behavior change
- Health behavior theory
- Health communication
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Persoskie A, O'Brien EK, Donaldson EA, Pearson J, Choi K, Kaufman A, Stanton CA, Delnevo CD. Cigar package quantity and smoking behavior. BMC Public Health 2019 Jul 3; 19(1):868.
- Thai CL, Rice EL, Taber JM, Kaufman AR, Klein WMP. Implicit theories of smoking and association with interest in quitting among current smokers. J Behav Med 2019 May 20.
- Strong DR, Leas E, Elton-Marshall T, Wackowski OA, Travers M, Bansal-Travers M, Hyland A, White M, Noble M, Cummings KM, Taylor K, Kaufman AR, Choi K, Pierce JP. Harm perceptions and tobacco use initiation among youth in Wave 1 and 2 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study. Prev Med 2019 Jun; 123:185-191.
- Stanton CA, Bansal-Travers M, Johnson AL, Sharma E, Katz L, Ambrose BK, Silveira ML, Day H, Sargent J, Borek N, Compton WM, Johnson S, Kimmel H, Kaufman AR, Limpert J, Abrams D, Cummings KM, Goniewicz ML, Tanski S, Travers MJ, Hyland AJ, Pearson JL. Longitudinal e-cigarette and cigarette use among US youth in the PATH Study (2013-2015). J Natl Cancer Inst 2019 Jan 25.
- Sawdey MD, Day HR, Coleman B, Gardner LD, Johnson SE, Limpert J, Hammad HT, Goniewicz ML, Abrams DB, Stanton CA, Pearson JL, Kaufman AR, Kimmel HL, Delnevo CD, Compton WM, Bansal-Travers M, Niaura RS, Hyland A, Ambrose BK. Associations of risk factors of e-cigarette and cigarette use and susceptibility to use among baseline PATH study youth participants (2013-2014). Addict Behav 2019 Apr; 91:51-60.
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