Staff: Rachel Grana Mayne, PhD, MPH

Rachel Grana Mayne

Rachel Grana Mayne, PhD, MPH

(she/her/hers)
Program Director
Organization: Contact:
rachel.mayne@nih.gov
240-551-9102

Rachel Grana Mayne, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Program Director in the Tobacco Control and Research Branch (TCRB) within the Behavioral Research Program (BRP) of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Dr. Grana Mayne's current research interests focus on behavioral factors associated with e-cigarette and other novel tobacco product use, dual and polyuse of tobacco products and/or cannabis, and tobacco cessation, particularly among youth and young adults. She is also interested in how e-cigarette use impacts prevention of smoking, smoking behavior, cessation, and relapse among former smokers. Dr. Grana Mayne's published work has focused on e-cigarette use, marketing, and policy, as well as smoking cessation among adults and adolescents, and she was on the Senior Scientific Editorial team for the 2020 Surgeon General's Report on smoking cessation. Dr. Grana Mayne is NCI's liaison to the Tobacco Regulatory Science Program at NIH, which manages the partnership between NIH and FDA Center for Tobacco Products to fund research to inform FDA's tobacco regulatory activities.

Prior to joining TCRB, Dr. Grana Mayne completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco and earned her Ph.D. in Health Behavior Research and M.P.H. in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Southern California, where she focused on substance use prevention and smoking cessation among adolescents.



Current and/or past BRP mentors include Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou.

Current and/or past BRP mentees include Irina Iles.


Scientific Interests

  • Behavioral factors associated with e-cigarette and other novel tobacco product use
  • Dual and polyuse of tobacco products
  • Dual and polyuse of tobacco products and cannabis
  • Tobacco cessation, particularly among youth and young adults

Selected Publications and Presentations

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