Shyanika W. Rose, PhD, MA

Dr. Shyanika Rose, PhD, MA is an Assistant Professor with the College of Medicine Department of Behavioral Science and the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET). Her research focuses on cancer control and prevention, tobacco regulatory science and health equity. 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 potential health equity enhancing 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 PI on a newly funded NCI R01 focused on assessing the equity impacts of flavored tobacco sales restriction policies in 8 communities around the US. She is a collaborator on 3 R01s and a P01. Her research efforts have resulted in over 60 peer reviewed publications. She is a near-peer mentor in the Research Scholars Program at UK to retain under-represented minority 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 is a Co-Guest Editor of a special issue on for the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. She is an instructor for BSC 732 Interdisciplinary Proposal Development and MD 811 Introduction to Clinical Medicine and is the primary research mentor for a Psychology and Communications graduate student and undergraduate ACTION student.