Neal Doran
University of California-San Diego, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
E-cigarettes are now the most common nicotine product used by US youth. Yet researchers still know too little about what leads children to start vaping or what it does to their health, brains and behavior.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Psychology
Neuroscience
- Topics
e-cigarettes
vaping
adolescent nicotine use
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Identify modifiable social, contextual and individual risk factors that predict e-cigarette initiation and progression in children, using repeated assessments from the ABCD cohort of youth ages 9 to 19.
- Test whether children who try e-cigarettes become more likely to use combustible tobacco, and evaluate whether this relationship is causal.
- Determine whether youth e-cigarette use is associated with brain changes, neurocognitive deficits and negative physical health consequences across adolescence in the ABCD study.
More about the research
Without that knowledge, it is hard to design prevention programs or set sound tobacco rules.
Why it matters
Prevention programs for youth vaping are currently lacking. Identifying changeable risk factors could help design programs that keep children from starting or escalating e-cigarette use. Evidence on brain, behavior and health harms, and on whether vaping leads to smoking, could inform regulators deciding how to control e-cigarettes. Together, these could reduce tobacco-related illness and death among young people.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Pamela Madden
Washington University in St Louis, MO·Psychology
Follow and assess children enrolled at the Washington University site of the ABCD Study with brain imaging, cognitive testing, bioassays and health interviews every two years from age 9–10 into young adulthood.
Michael Kotlyar
University of Minnesota, MN·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether people who smoke menthol cigarettes take up nicotine pouches more than medicinal nicotine, using a randomized 6-week study of 252 participants in an experimental marketplace.
Elias Klemperer
University of Vermont, VT·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether very low nicotine content cigarettes reduce cigarettes smoked per day and cigarette dependence among adult dual users of cigarettes and e-cigarettes, in a 12-week double-blind randomized trial.
The school
University of California-San Diego: 84 labs on PI Pages, $1.9B a year on research, 637 research doctorates a year.
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