Gregory N. Connolly, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Connolly teaches and conducts research at Harvard School of Public Health on
tobacco and health issues. He has published over 70 scientific articles on
tobacco product design, marketing and tobacco control interventions. Dr.
Connolly is a graduate of Holy Cross College, Tufts Dental School, and Harvard
School of Public Health. He is the former director of Massachusetts Department
of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Program and over the ten years he directed
the program cigarette consumption fell 50% in Massachusetts, three times the
U.S. average. He was the second American to be awarded the Surgeon General’s
Medallion by Dr. C. Everett Koop for his leadership passing the federal
Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act.
He is recognized as a national expert on smoking and health in the U.S. and
worldwide and has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization. He is
credited with ending the U.S. use of trade threats against Thailand for its
refusal to accept foreign cigarettes and was made the Commander of the Third
Class by the King of Thailand for his work. He has trained and mentored public
health officials on tobacco control in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Eastern
Mediterranean.
He has testified before Congress on more than a dozen occasions and appears
regularly on U.S. national news networks.
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