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Bob Vollinger is the Program Director for the Tobacco Research Initiative for State and Community Interventions (TRISCI) in the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The initiative supports research on innovative tobacco prevention and control interventions at the community, State, or multi state level, particularly policy or media-based interventions. The results have guided tobacco control programs across the Nation, to increase program effectiveness and produce real reductions in the prevalence of tobacco use. He also manages a large portfolio of other grants, including the International Tobacco Control Policy TTURC grant. In addition, he was the co-Senior Scientific Editor of National Cancer Institute Tobacco Control Monograph No. 16, ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Previously Bob served as a Project Officer with the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study for Cancer Prevention (ASSIST) and managed numerous large contracts with State Health Departments, working closely with the American Cancer Society and other voluntary health organizations. He has provided technical assistance and training to State and local public health agencies, and major voluntary organizations regarding comprehensive tobacco prevention and control. He has worked on tobacco control research and policy issues at NCI since 1996.
Bob's interests include: policy, media and population-based approaches to preventing and reducing tobacco use; clean indoor air; health communications and social marketing; state and community-based tobacco control interventions; organizational development; community organizing and social justice approaches to public health. Over the years, Bob has held several health policy positions, including in numerous components of the U.S. Public Health Service: the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; the Food and Drug Administration on a special team drafting final tobacco regulations; the Office of the Surgeon General on Dr. C. Everett Koop's alcohol-impaired driving initiative in 1989; and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in 1987. He was a Health Policy Fellow in the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Health Office in 1990. Bob also represented the U.S. as the HHS delegate to the Japan America Leadership Exchange Committee, a bi-lateral exchange of civil servants from each of the cabinet level ministries in their respective national governments. He has also served on numerous tobacco control advisory committees and steering committees at the national, state and local levels. Since 1987, Bob has been an active member of the American Public Health Association and has served in numerous leadership positions with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section since its inception, and currently he is the Section Chair. He is also an active member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. He recently received a 2007 NIH Merit Group Award for outstanding leadership in translating science into practice by developing the NCI smoke-free meeting policy to help protect the public from secondhand smoke exposure.
Mr. Vollinger earned a Master of Science in Public Health from the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. He completed a double major and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies and Religion from the Institute of Policy Sciences & Public Affairs at Duke University, with concentrations in health policy and ethics.
Select Publications and Presentations:
Fagan, P, Augustson, E.M., Backinger, C.L., O’Connell, M.E., Vollinger, R., Kaufman, A., & Gibson, T.J. (2007) Quit Attempts and Intention to Quit Cigarette Smoking Among Young Adults in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 97(8), 1412-1420.
Motsinger BM and Vollinger RE Jr, (Eds.) ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 16. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 05-5645, May 2005.
Vollinger RE Jr, Moon RW, Greenwald P. (May 2005) Historical Context. In: ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 16. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 05-5645,.
Moon RW, Havlicek D, Garcia JM, Vollinger RE Jr, Motsinger BM. (May 2005) The conceptual framework. In: ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 16. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 05-5645.
Malek SH, Vollinger RE Jr, Babb S, Sneegas KS, Shopland DR. (May 2005) Public and Private Policy Interventions. In: ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 16. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 05-5645.
Motsinger BM, Vollinger RE Jr, Niemeyer D. (May 2005) The Promise of ASSIST. In: ASSIST: Shaping the Future of Tobacco Prevention and Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 16. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 05-5645.
Convissor RB, Vollinger RE Jr, Wilbur P. (1990) Using national news events to stimulate local awareness of public policy issues. Public Health Rep., 105(3), 257-60.
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