Congratulations to CHET primary faculty and assistant professor of behavioral science, Delvon Mattingly, PhD, who recently received a $40,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant. Dr. Mattingly's study, “Social Vulnerability and Rurality: Understanding Disparities in Tobacco Product Use Among Adult Cancer Survivors in the United States,” will use data from the All of Us research program to examine whether social vulnerability and rurality are independently associated with tobacco product use outcomes among a sample of US adult cancer survivors.
“This pilot award enables us to generate critical evidence on how social vulnerability and rurality shape tobacco use among cancer survivors. The findings will provide actionable insights to guide tobacco cessation and survivorship interventions, while laying the foundation for future extramural funding focused on reducing cancer disparities and addressing addiction during survivorship,” Mattingly said.
Dr. Mattingly is also a member of the Markey Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program and Co-Lead of the Career Enhancement Core for the Appalachian Tobacco Regulatory Science Team, a Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (AppalTRUST, TCORS 3.0). He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and leads multiple funded research studies, including a National Cancer Institute Supplement examining how local flavored tobacco control policies shape disparities in flavored e-cigarette use among young adults.