Pebbles Fagan PhD, MPH

Dr. Pebbles Fagan, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor and the director of the Center for the Study of Tobacco at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Fay. W. Boozman College of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education. She formerly served as program director for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and served as a health scientist in the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Fagan has more than 20 years of experience in conducting research that aims to increase knowledge on how to reduce tobacco- and cancer-related health disparities in racial/ethnic, socially disadvantaged, and marginalized communities. She has a long-standing track record of using team-based science to examine social, behavioral, and biobehavioral factors associated with health disparities.

Dr. Fagan served on the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration from 2015-2018. In 2012, she received an Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University. In 2007, she received the NIH Merit Award for her leadership in tobacco-related health disparities research. Dr. Fagan received an NCI Director's Award in 2006 for her collaborative work in training minority investigators and was recognized by Aetna Insurance in the Aetna African American History Calendar, 25th Anniversary Edition for her work in tobacco-related health disparities. Dr. Fagan is a member of the American Public Health Association; the American Association for Cancer Research; founding member of the Tobacco and Health Disparities Committee of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco; Soroptimist International of Waikiki Foundation, Incorporated; and The Links Incorporated, Little Rock Chapter.