Research Interests:
Dr. Horn is the Associate Director of Population Health for the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and program director of the Translational Tobacco Reduction Research (T2R2) Program. She is also a named Robert C. Byrd Associate Professor of Community Medicine. She was the founding Director of the Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies (ODAIS) between 1998-2006. She is also the Co-Director of the Centers for Disease Control-funded WV Prevention Research Center. As a behavioral scientist, Dr. Horn has extensive experience in tobacco and other drug intervention trials in school-, community-, and clinic-based settings, with a focus on underserved populations. Dr. Horn is known nationally and internationally as an expert in her field. In 2007, she served the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the Chair person of the Prevention Research Centers’ National Research Committee. She also served as a peer reviewer for the newly-revised USDHHS Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. The research of Dr. Horn and her team has impacted public health policy and practice across the US. One of the programs Dr. Horn developed, Not On Tobacco, was adopted by the American Lung Association in 1998 and is used across the US and in Europe to help teens stop smoking. The program has reached thousands of teens with 1 in 5 quitting smoking. Dr. Horn has conducted over two dozen school and community-based intervention trials with millions of dollars in competitive funding from federal, state, and private sources. Her work has received awards and recognition from USDHHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Cancer Institute, US Department of Justice, and the CDC, among others. Dr. Horn and her team maintain an active research program with dozens of publications in the area of teen tobacco use and millions of dollars in extramural funding. Their work has been featured newspapers and magazines across the US. A recent systematic review conducted by the Cochrane Collaboration, a prestigious international report. The report examined all teen smoking cessation studies ever conducted worldwide and noted N-O-T as the the only program of promise. The N-O-T program has been recognized by the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/ Prevention Research Centers as one of the most impactful public health programs of the past decade. |
