Positions
- Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
- Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco, Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health
Contacts
- Phone: 501-526-2294
- Fax: 501-526-6709
- Email: pfagan@uams.edu
Research Experience
I am a behavioral scientist and have over 25 years of experience in conducting research that aims to increase our knowledge on how to reduce tobacco- and cancer-related health disparities in racial/ethnic, socially disadvantaged, and marginalized communities. I have used team-based science to examine social, behavioral and biobehavioral factors associated with health disparities.
As an undergraduate student assistant, I worked in the biology lab at the University of Virginia. I became more engaged in research during my master of public health program at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. I helped to develop a survey on HIV knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors and the evaluation components for the Healthy Baby Project, which aimed to reduce infant mortality rates in New Orleans, Louisiana. During my doctoral program at Texas A&M University, I conducted research to understand the readability of cancer prevention materials, marketing of tobacco products in low and high density areas in Harare, Zimbabwe, and used mixed-methods to evaluate the relationship between self- and collective efficacy in a community-based partnership board in Bryan, Texas. After completing my doctoral degree in 1997, I began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute to increase my skills in conducting randomized community trials that aimed to reduce tobacco use among working adults, women, and adolescents.
In 2001, I joined the Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute as a health scientist. My notable work includes co-founding the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND), the first national research network designed to stimulate novel collaborative research in tobacco related health disparities. My leadership resulted in the publication of over 10 special journal issues and reports, collaborative research, and increased diversity and inclusion in research. In 2011, I left the federal government and began serving as an associate professor and program director for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center. I had the opportunity to lead the Addictive Carcinogens Working Group, which resulted in numerous publications that aimed to increase our understanding of factors that influence flavored tobacco use.
In 2016, I joined the faculty at the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health as a professor and director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco. I serve as the deputy director of research on the administrative core of a health disparities center grant and principal investigator of the center’s F.R.E.S.H. project, which aims to reduce cancer risks by helping African American women smokers in rural Delta counties implement smoke-free policies in the home. As the principal investigator, I completed a study that developed and pilot tested messages that aim to reduce secondhand smoke exposure among African American breast cancer survivors. I am collaborating with team of researchers to develop and implement patient navigator models to reduce disparities in cancer care among rural and marginalized groups.
I have also been engaged in tobacco regulatory research since 2009. I was instrumental in advancing a series of papers that informed the content of several reports that describe the impact of menthol cigarettes on the public’s health. I am the director of the Contextual Knowledge Methods Core for the Virginia Commonwealth University Center for the Study of Tobacco Products. My research uses mixed-methods including social media to understand how cigarette and cigar smokers use electronic cigarette/vaping devices and factors that influence electronic cigarette use.
Recent Publications
Soule EK, Mayne S, Snipes W, Heym M, Coffey AD, Guy MC, Breland A, Fagan P.
Electronic Cigarette Users’ Reactions and Responses to a Hypothetical Nicotine
Concentration Reduction in Electronic Cigarette Liquids. Subst Use Misuse.
2023;58(10):1202-1211. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2023.2212280. Epub 2023 May 24. PMID: 37222484; PMCID: PMC10339361.
Jones DM, Guy MC, Fairman BJ, Soule E, Eissenberg T, Fagan P. Nicotine
Dependence among Current Cigarette Smokers Who Use E-Cigarettes and Cannabis. Subst Use Misuse. 2023;58(5):618-628. doi 10.1080/10826084.2023.2177961. Epub 2023 Feb 27. PMID: 36852436; PMCID: PMC10249428.
Jackson AB, Gibbons FX, Fleischli ME, Haeny AM, Bold KW, Suttiratana SC,
Fagan P, Krishnan-Sarin S, Gerrard M. Association of racial discrimination in
health care settings and use of electronic cigarettes to quit smoking among
Black adults. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2023 Dec;155:208985. doi:
10.1016/j.josat.2023.208985. Epub 2023 Feb 22. PMID: 36822270; PMCID:
PMC10442461.
Jones DM, Bullock S, Donald K, Cooper S, Miller W, Davis AH, Cottoms N,
Orloff M, Bryant-Moore K, Guy MC, Fagan P. Factors associated with smokefree
rules in the homes of Black/African American women smokers residing in low-
resource rural communities. Prev Med. 2022 Dec;165(Pt B):107340. doi:
10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107340. Epub 2022 Nov 10. PMID: 36370892; PMCID:
PMC9727706.
Jackson A, Fleischli ME, Haeny AM, Rose SW, Fagan P, Krishnan-Sarin S,
Gerrard M, Gibbons FX. Association of Non-Cigarette Tobacco Advertisements and Racial Discrimination With Non-Cigarette Tobacco Product Use Among Black Adults. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Mar 22;25(4):781-787. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac226. PMID: 36169563; PMCID: PMC10032198.
Soule EK, Mayne S, Snipes W, Thomas L, Guy MC, Breland A, Fagan P. Electronic
cigarette users’ reactions and responses to a hypothetical ban of flavoured
electronic cigarette liquids. Tob Control. 2022 Nov;31(Suppl 3):s197-s205. doi:
10.1136/tc-2022-057454. PMID: 36328459; PMCID: PMC9661374.
Faseru B, Fagan P, Okuyemi KS. Additional Benefits of Maintaining a Healthy
Lifestyle After Quitting Smoking. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Sep 1;5(9):e2232784. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.32784. PMID: 36136337.
Breland AB, Carroll D, Denlinger-Apte R, Ross JC, Soto C, White C, Donny EC,
Fagan P, Gardiner P, Eissenberg T, Guy MC. Centering racial justice for
Black/African American and Indigenous American people in commercial tobacco product regulation. Prev Med. 2022 Dec;165(Pt B):107117. doi:
10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107117. Epub 2022 Jun 15. PMID: 35716811; PMCID:
PMC9722549.
Tan ASL, Hinds JT, Smith PH, Antin T, Lee JP, Ostroff JS, Patten C, Rose SW,
Sheffer CE, Fagan P. Incorporating Intersectionality as a Framework for Equity-
Minded Tobacco Control Research: A Call for Collective Action Toward a Paradigm Shift. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Jan 1;25(1):73-76. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac110. PMID: 35439321; PMCID: PMC9717371.
Bircan E, Bezirhan U, Porter A, Fagan P, Orloff MS. Erratum: Electronic
cigarette use and its association with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome among never cigarette smokers. Tob Induc Dis. 2021 Oct 21;19:74. doi: 10.18332/tid/141989. Erratum for: Tob Induc Dis. 2021 Oct 21;19:75. PMID: 34727146; PMCID: PMC8530193.
Bircan E, Bezirhan U, Porter A, Fagan P, Orloff MS. Electronic cigarette use
and its association with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome among never cigarette smokers. Tob Induc Dis. 2021 Oct 21;19:75. doi: 10.18332/tid/142579. Erratum in: Tob Induc Dis. 2021 Oct 21;19:74. PMID: 34720794; PMCID: PMC8530195.
Jones DM, Kulik MC, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Bullock S, Guy MC, Fagan P.
Menthol Smoking and Nicotine Dependence among Black/African American Women Smokers Living in Low-Resource, Rural Communities. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 16;18(20):10877. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182010877. PMID: 34682623; PMCID: PMC8535496.
Bircan E, Bezirhan U, Porter A, Fagan P, Orloff MS. Electronic cigarette use
and its association with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome among never cigarette smokers. Tob Induc Dis. 2021 Apr 7;19:23. doi: 10.18332/tid/132833. PMID: 33841062; PMCID: PMC8025916.
Fagan P, Eissenberg T, Jones DM, Cohen JE, Nez Henderson P, Clanton MS. The
First 10 Years: Reflecting on Opportunities and Challenges of the Tobacco
Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the United States Food and Drug
Administration. J Leg Med. 2020 Jul-Dec;40(3-4):293-320. doi:
10.1080/01947648.2020.1868938. PMID: 33797324; PMCID: PMC9121395.
Selva Kumar D, Peterson M, Zhang C, Fagan P, Nahvi S. The impact of menthol
cigarette use on quit attempts and abstinence among smokers with opioid use
disorder. Addict Behav. 2021 Jul;118:106880. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106880. Epub 2021 Feb 23. PMID: 33706070; PMCID: PMC8059772.
Pokhrel P, Herzog TA, Kawamoto CT, Fagan P. Heat-not-burn Tobacco Products
and the Increased Risk for Poly-tobacco Use. Am J Health Behav. 2021 Jan
1;45(1):195-204. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.45.1.16. PMID: 33402249; PMCID: PMC9236702.
Jones DM, Guy MC, Soule E, Sakuma KK, Pokhrel P, Orloff M, Trinidad D, Smith
D, Browley S, Walker AP, Bullock S, Eissenberg T, Fagan P. Characterization of
Electronic Cigarette Warning Statements Portrayed in YouTube Videos. Nicotine
Tob Res. 2021 Aug 4;23(8):1358-1366. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa272. PMID: 33400781; PMCID: PMC8360626.
Soule EK, Bode KM, Desrosiers AC, Guy M, Breland A, Fagan P. User-Perceived
Negative Respiratory Symptoms Associated with Electronic Cigarette Use. Nicotine Tob Res. 2020 Dec 15;22(Suppl 1):S45-S53. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa179. PMID: 33320252; PMCID: PMC7737476.
Jin J, Robeson H, Fagan P, Orloff MS. Association of PARP1-specific
polymorphisms and haplotypes with non-small cell lung cancer subtypes. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 7;15(12):e0243509. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243509. PMID: 33284833; PMCID: PMC7721167.
Sakuma KK, Pierce JP, Fagan P, Nguyen-Grozavu FT, Leas EC, Messer K, White
MM, Tieu AS, Trinidad DR. Racial/Ethnic Disparities Across Indicators of
Cigarette Smoking in the Era of Increased Tobacco Control, 1992-2019. Nicotine Tob Res. 2021 May 24;23(6):909-919. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa231. PMID: 33196799; PMCID: PMC8522466.