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C. Anderson Johnson

Sidney Garfield Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychology and Director, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

C. Anderson Johnson, Ph.D. is Sidney Garfield Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychology and Director of the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research at the USC Keck School of Medicine. His research focuses on understanding the determinants of health-related lifestyles and approaches to prevention of behavioral, social, and environmental risks for disease. His areas of concentration include tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, nutritional practices and physical exercise, and communication strategies for health promotion. Dr. Johnson is Principal Investigator for "Lowering Smoking and Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Pacific Rim Youth" a program project funded by the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program and Director of the USC Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is also Director of the China Seven Cities Study, a study of health related lifestyles and approaches to tobacco use prevention and control in China. Dr. Johnson received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Duke University and advanced training in social ecology and epidemiology at the National Bureau of Standards and the University of Minnesota.