Research Summary
Dr. Apollonio is Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. She has served as an instructor and research mentor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy since 2004, and has earned multiple teaching awards. Her research focus is the translation of research into policy. She is particularly interested in the political and marketing activities of industries implicated in the spread of non-communicable diseases, which include tobacco, pharmaceuticals, cannabis, alcohol, and food. Her recent work addresses tobacco control in vulnerable populations, the combined use of tobacco and cannabis, the spread of laws addressing new tobacco and cannabis delivery systems, and policies that allow substitution of cannabis for opiates. Her research also considers the ways that clinical findings are used in developing policy interventions and communicating knowledge from scientists to the public, and identifies methods to increase the role of evidence in making public health policy decisions. The analysis underlying these findings relies on multiple data sources (including clinical research findings, surveillance datasets, internal industry documents, administrative datasets, and interviews) and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify how policies affecting public health are made. Her work has been published in journals across disciplines, including law, medicine, pharmacy, political science, public health, and public policy. Her training includes a postdoctoral appointment at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Research Funding
February 1, 2019 - January 31, 2021 - Linking local variation in marijuana and opioid policies to health outcomes, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R21DA046051
July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2019 - Effects of California’s 2016 tobacco policies on initiation, use, & quitting, PI. Sponsor: California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, Sponsor Award ID: 26IR-0014
November 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019 - Measuring combined tobacco, e-cigarette, and marijuana use in California, Co-PI. Sponsor: California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, Sponsor Award ID: 25IR-0025
July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019 - San Francisco Cancer Initiative (SF-CAN), Co-investigator. Sponsor: UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sponsor Award ID:
Education
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, BA, 1992, Political Science, History
Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, MPP, 1994, Health Policy
University of California, Berkeley, CA, PhD, 2003, Political Science
University of California, San Francisco, CA, Postdoctoral, 2003-2006, Health Policy