Jack Henningfield, PhD

Dr. Henningfield is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Vice President for Research and Health Policy at Pinney Associates, a public health issues consulting group in Bethesda, Maryland. Most of his research and activities pertain to drug addiction; tobacco has been a major area of focus.

Dr. Henningfield has published more than 300 journal articles and book chapters, several books and monographs, and contributed to numerous reports of the U.S. Surgeon General, the National Academy of Sciences, World Health Organizations, and other organizations. He is past President and a founding member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, a charter fellow of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and Senior Advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Tobacco Etiology Research Network that is studying the science base for reducing tobacco use and harm in youth and young adults. He was selected for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Award in 2000 and he uses the award to support efforts to assess and disseminate the science foundation for tobacco control policy.

At the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and in professional organizations, Dr. Henningfield has worked to increase the public health relevance and excellence of addiction science by increasing the participation of underrepresented populations and by working closely with public health service organizations.

He retired from his positions as Chief of the Clinical Pharmacology Branch and the Biology of Dependence and Abuse Liability Assessment Laboratory of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1996. He continues his research and public health efforts by working with nongovernmental organizations on public health policy, academic institutions in their research and training efforts, and pharmaceutical companies in their medications development and evaluation efforts. Dr. Henningfield serves various departments of the U.S. Federal Government, the World Health Organization, and other organizations that address issues of tobacco, drug addiction and health. A particular interest is in tobacco product design and engineering and how tobacco products could be made less deadly while being regulated and marketed so as not to undermine prevention and cessation efforts.

Note: This biosketch is published as it was submitted by Dr. Henningfield. The material was edited for style.