Generally, my research focuses on disease prevention and health promotion. More
specifically, my research has most frequently addressed tobacco control in populations
that present unique challenges to tobacco prevalence rate reductions such as weight
concerned individuals, those with co-morbid substance use, and Veterans. More recently at
the University of Texas at El Paso, I have been assessing Hispanic health and health
disparities, with particular emphases on light smoking, smoking cessation, other
substance use behaviors, body weight and image, and community level tobacco control
interventions (e.g., development, implementation, and assessment of large scale media
campaigns). From this work, evidence is emerging that Hispanic individuals on the border
smoke at non trivial rates, are most often light or intermittent smokers, often engage in
use of alcohol or other substances along with tobacco, demonstrate cessation related
weight concern, and warrant the empirical and theoretical development of prevention and
intervention efforts both at the individual and community levels to reduce tobacco
prevalence.
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