75 years later: The impact of the 1950 papers on smoking and lung cancer

This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.


Date
Sept. 12, 2025
Time
9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location
Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center, 2201 Fred Taylor Dr., Columbus, OH 43210
Registration deadline

About

Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950. Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world. In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields.

Featured talks and speakers

Lung Cancer Screening in America: Progress and Modeling Contributions

Pianpian Cao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Purdue University College of Health and Human Services

Casual Inference in Epidemiology: From Hill’s Criteria to Potential Outcomes

Eben Kenah, ScD, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University College of Public Health

A 75-Year History of Tobacco Control in America

Scott Leischow, PhD, Research Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University

Using Casual Methods to Examine Policy Effects on Health

Parvati Singh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University College of Public Health

Tobacco Harm Reduction: New Products, New Concerns?

Alayna Tackett, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Center for Tobacco Research​

The Next Generation of Tobacco Control Policies

Patricia Zettler, JD, John W. Bricker Professor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law 

Contact

Please contact ferketich.1@osu.edu with any questions.

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