Director of Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Ranney is a Research Associate Professor in the UNC Department of Family Medicine. She has 16 years’ experience leading multiple public health research and evaluation projects. Dr. Ranney has extensive experience in study design, project management, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. As Director of the Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program, she supervises research and evaluation projects that advance the field of program evaluation and tobacco control. Currently, Dr. Ranney is a co-investigator on a NIH FDA Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science grant with a team of researchers in UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Sep 17, 2019 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sept. 15, 2019 that he plans to pursue emergency regulations to quickly ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, making New York the second state to consider such a ban. Cuomos action...
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Dec 24, 2018 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
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