A Community of Collaborators

AppalTRUST is made up of a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary group of investigators representing five colleges at the University of Kentucky (UK) (medicine, nursing, public health, education and arts and sciences), two University Centers (Markey Cancer Center and BREATHE), and the Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation (PIRE) Louisville Kentucky (KY) Center. AppalTRUST investigators have complementary expertise in tobacco regulatory science, tobacco control policy, tobacco marketing, epidemiology, health economics, community engaged research (CEnR), biostatistics, and data science.

Our AppalTRUST team consists of a Multi-PI team, two associate directors, seven core or project leads, 15 additional faculty co-investigators, 20+ professional staff, and trainees, including faculty scholars, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students.

AppalTRUST Affiliates are faculty and staff from across UK’s campus that support our goal of investigating the impact of US Federal and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products (FDA CTP) regulatory policies in rural communities, a vulnerable and understudied population, through collaboration, education, and pioneering regulatory scientific research. If you would like to be an AppalTRUST Affiliate, you can sign up here.