Innovations in Tobacco Control Lecture Series: Georg E. Matt, PhD
Department & Center Events | Guest Lecturer
About the Event
Hosted by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC), the monthly Innovations in Tobacco Control lecture series welcomes key researchers and experts to share ideas, present their work, and spark discussion.
Presented via Zoom webinar, this virtual event welcomes Georg E. Matt, PhD, for a lecture, entitled “Thirdhand Smoke.”
The lecture will be followed by a brief moderated Q&A.
Registration
Upon approval of registration, attendees will receive a personalized Zoom link to access the webinar.
Speaker
Georg E. Matt, PhD
Professor Matt is a tenured Professor of Psychology in the College of Sciences at San Diego State University (SDSU), a faculty member at the Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the Director of the Thirdhand Smoke Resource Center. Over the past 20 years, his research has focused on human exposure to tobacco smoke toxicants in field settings. Prof. Matt’s training in evaluation research, measurement, and applied field research, and his educational background in the sciences have provided cross-disciplinary expertise to examine the complex and dynamic mixtures of tobacco smoke compounds and tobacco product waste in actual field settings, human behavior associated with exposure, and policies to better protect the public from exposure to tobacco smoke pollutants in the environment. As PI and co-PI on grants funded by the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), NIH, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Prof. Matt has led and worked in interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research teams to investigate tobacco control policies, exposure pathways, behavioral correlates of exposure in outdoor and indoor environments such as homes, cars, hotels, playgrounds, and sidewalks. This work has contributed to the discovery of the complex mixture of residual tobacco smoke pollutants left behind in indoor environments where tobacco has been smoked (also known as thirdhand smoke, THS) and a better understanding of the multiple pathways through which nonsmokers are exposed to these pollutants.