Dr. Ross Kauffman
Dr. Ross Kauffman, assistant professor of public health, earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and environmental science from Eastern Mennonite University.
At Ohio State, Kauffman was a University Fellow in 2005 and was named Outstanding M.S./Ph.D. Student in the School of Public Health in 2006. He was a graduate teaching associate in the university’s epidemiology department in 2005-06, and received the OSU Board of Trustees’ Student Recognition Award in 2007.
In 2009-10, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Training in Research for Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Control program in Indiana University’s School of Nursing, at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Much of his research has been related to smoking and tobacco. He was the principal investigator in a two-year, CDC-funded study of smoking and tobacco in Ohio prisons, and is a research assistant for three ongoing, smoking-related projects. He is a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, the American Public Health Association and Phi Kappa Phi academic honorary.
