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Matthew C. Farrelly

Senior Director, Public Health Policy Research Program

Matthew Farrelly, PhD, is a chief scientist and senior director of the Public Health Policy Research Program in RTI's Public Health and Environment Division. His primary research focus is on evaluating smokers' response to tobacco control policies and programs, such as cigarette excise tax increases, mass media campaigns, workplace smoking restrictions, state tobacco control programs, and other policies aimed at curbing tobacco use. Dr. Farrelly has also investigated whether attempts to curb the use of one substance, such as tobacco, have the unintended consequence of encouraging marijuana or alcohol use. Dr. Farrelly has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, American Economic Review, Health Economics, Tobacco Control, Journal of Health Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Education

PhD, Economics, University of Maryland, College Park; BA, Economics and French, Indiana University.

Publications

A comprehensive examination of the influence of state tobacco control programs and policies on youth smoking — American Journal of Public Health
Farrelly, M.C., Loomis, B.R., Han, B., Gfroerer, J., Kuiper, N., Couzens, G.L., et al. (Mar 2013)
Do different styles of antismoking ads influence the types of smokers who call quitlines? — Health Education Research
Nonnemaker, J.M., Farrelly, M.C., Kamyab, K., & Macmonegle, A.J. (Feb 2013)
The influence of television advertisements on promoting calls to telephone quitlines — Health Education Research
Farrelly, M., Mann, N., Watson, K., & Pechacek, T. (Feb 2013)
Influence of tobacco displays and ads on youth: A virtual store experiment — Pediatrics
Kim, A.E., Nonnemaker, J.M., Loomis, B.R., Baig, A., Hill, E., Holloway, J.W., Farrelly, M.C., & Shafer, P.R. (Jan 2013)
Movie Smoking and Youth Initiation: Parsing Smoking Imagery and Other Adult Content — PLoS one
Farrelly, M.C., Kamyab, K., Nonnemaker, J., Crankshaw, E., & Allen, J.A. (Dec 2012)
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