Brittney Keller-Hamilton

Brittney Keller-Hamilton is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University. As a member of the Cancer Control Program at  The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, she is interested in tobacco control, particularly research to reduce cancer risk for people who use tobacco products.

Her current research focuses on identifying key characteristics of tobacco products that drive their addiction potential. Because rates of tobacco-related cancers are particularly high in rural and Appalachian areas, much of her research is conducted within those populations.

She leads studies investigating the effects of differing nicotine characteristics on the appeal and addiction potential of nicotine products, like nicotine pouches and other forms of smokeless tobacco. She also leads a project that is testing whether nicotine pouches help people stop smoking as well as medicinal nicotine replacement therapy. She has collaborated on several studies evaluating the best ways to communicate the health risks of tobacco and alcohol to consumers.

Her work has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Addiction, Tobacco Control, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, and Preventive Medicine. Additionally, she served as an associate editor for Preventing Chronic Disease, and is a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco the Women in Medicine and Science data sub-committee.