Senior Policy Analyst
Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Washington, DC , District of Columbia
Bob Vollinger is the Senior Policy Advisor in the Policy, Planning and Coordination Unit of the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He provides leadership on policy, partnerships, planning, media relations, strategic messaging, and other major initiatives to support OSH’s tobacco prevention and control priorities. Bob helps coordinate the analysis and application of tobacco prevention and control policy and strategies in collaboration with CDC and HHS leaders; policymakers; State, tribal, and federal agencies; and non-governmental organizations to develop and support tobacco control priorities to fulfill OSH’s mission and goals. He leads a Community Engagement Workgroup to promote real world collaboration among researchers and public health practitioners to strengthen efforts to disseminate and implement research findings to advance comprehensive tobacco prevention and control policies at local, State, national and tribal levels.
Bob previously served as a Program Director in the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for over 25 years. He managed much of NCI’s tobacco control policy research portfolio and led NCI’s largest tobacco control research initiative and supported research on innovative tobacco prevention and control interventions at the community, State, or multi state-level, particularly policy or media-based interventions. The results have guided tobacco control programs across the Nation to increase program effectiveness and produce real reductions in the prevalence of tobacco use. Bob also led numerous large NCI state and community-based research efforts and was the co-Senior Scientific Editor of NCI’s Tobacco Control Monograph -- ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Bob coordinated the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study for Cancer Prevention; managed large contracts with State Health Departments; and provided technical assistance and training to State and local public health agencies and voluntary organizations regarding comprehensive tobacco prevention and control. He promotes the dissemination and implementation of research findings to eliminate all forms of tobacco use while also promoting health equity.
Dr. Vollinger earned a DrPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society. He also completed a Master of Science in Public Health from the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies and Religion from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, with concentrations in health policy and ethics.
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Monday, April 11, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM