Research Abstract

Jonathan P. Winickoff, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and MassGeneral Hospital for Children. He is a practicing general pediatrician and researcher. With over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Winickoff's research focuses on strategies to address tobacco use and exposure in families; current work includes CEASE (Clinical and Community Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure), as well as projects related to thirdhand smoke, electronic cigarettes, regulating smoking in multiunit housing, and raising the purchase age of tobacco to 21. He has received numerous awards including the Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service for “protecting the health of the United States public”. As the past Chair of the AAP Tobacco Consortium, Dr. Winickoff works with pediatric tobacco control researchers across the country to develop the best tobacco treatment practices for child healthcare settings. He has drafted key tobacco control policy for the AMA, AAP, and the APA and lead two national AAP efforts to integrate parental tobacco control into clinical practice, creating both Pedialink and EQIPP tobacco control modules. Dr. Winickoff was educated at Yale University, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health and completed his pediatric residency at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center and fellowship in health services research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.