Discipline(s):
Public Health, Nursing, Occupational Health
Area(s) of Expertise:
Smoking Cessation, Intervention Design and Evaluation, Gender and Occupation
E-Mail:
Cassandrao@post.harvard.edu
Background:
Cassandra Okechukwu will graduate with a Doctor of Science from the Harvard School of Public Health in June 2008. Her research focuses on how work and working conditions influence the health and health behaviors of working class populations. As part of her dissertation research, she evaluated a group randomized smoking cessation intervention for blue-collar workers, which integrated occupational health into smoking cessation messages. Her work has also focused on examining the relationship between exposure to occupational and social hazards in the workplace and smoking behaviors among working class populations. While a Health and Society Scholar, Cassandra aims to expand the scope of her research to include economic and policy analyses of factors affecting work and working conditions. She also plans to continue her work on tobacco control policy and expand the research she has conducted on the practices of multinational tobacco companies in African countries, such as her native Nigeria. Cassandra has a Bachelors degree in Nursing from the University of Maryland, where she worked as an instructor and research coordinator before starting the doctoral program. She is trained in occupational health and holds a Masters in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Masters in Nursing from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Cassandra Okechukwu's available publications in PubMed
