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Brian King (epidemiologist)
Brian King (born September 5, 1982) is an American epidemiologist who was the director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) from July 2022 to April 2025. As the nation's top regulator for tobacco products, he championed a public health lens towards regulation, during which cigarette smoking among U.S. adults reached below 10 percent for the first time in recorded history and tobacco product use among U.S. youth reached a 25-year low, including the lowest levels of youth e-cigarette use in a decade. He is currently the executive vice president for U.S. Programs at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Prior to joining FDA, he served as the deputy director for research translation in CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, and more recently as the Executive Editor of CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Series and as leadership for the agency's response to various public health emergencies, including COVID-19. Prior to his tenure at CDC, he was a research affiliate in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. He has authored more than 225 scientific journal articles related to tobacco prevention and control. He served as a senior editor for multiple U.S. Surgeon General's Reports on tobacco, including "Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General" (2020). He was also lead author of CDC's 2014 evidence-based guide for states, "Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs."
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