Shyanika W Rose, PhD

Dr. Shyanika Rose, PhD, MA is an Associate Professor with the College of Medicine Department of Behavioral Science and the Acting Director of the Center for Health, Engagement, and Transformation (CHET). Her research focuses on cancer control and prevention, tobacco regulatory science and health improvements across populations, especially those experiencing disparities. Her work aims to identify mechanisms by which policy initiatives can influence tobacco initiation and cessation and how policy can contribute to the reduction (or unintended widening) of racial/ethnic and socio-economic health disparities particularly in youth and young adult populations. She specifically works on point of sale and marketing policies, marketing of tobacco products in the retail and social media environment, mobile technologies for data collection, and extensive work related to flavored tobacco and menthol tobacco. She is the Multi-PI on the Appalachian Tobacco Regulatory Science Team (AppalTRUST) U54 focused on tobacco regulatory science in Appalachian Kentucky. She is also PI on a National Cancer Institute R01 focused on assessing the impacts of flavored tobacco sales restriction policies in 8 communities around the US among youth and young adults from diverse populations. Her research efforts have resulted in almost 90 peer reviewed publications. She is a near-peer mentor in the Research Scholars Program at UK to retain Early Career Faculty and has served on 3 search committees to bring new faculty to the Department and CHET. She is also on the Editorial Board of Health Promotion Practice and was a lead chapter author of the 2024 Surgeon General’s Report Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities. She has been an instructor for BSC 732 Interdisciplinary Proposal Development and MD 811 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and has been the primary research mentor for multiple undergraduate, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.