Jas Ahluwalia is a physician and public health scientist at Brown University’s schools of public health and medicine and is deputy director of a NIH funded Center of Excellence on substance use and chronic disease. He has been in academic medicine since 1992 and has been a practicing physician, faculty member, department chair, and associate dean in medical schools, and dean of a School of Public Health. His primary research areas are smoking cessation and nicotine addiction.

He has conducted clinical trials with every FDA approved smoking cessation medications, and a number trials with e-cigarettes and just recently, nicotine pouches. He has received more than $124 million in grants as a principal and co-investigator, and has published more than 400 manuscripts. He is ranked as the fourth most published smoking cessation scientist globally. Ahluwalia has served on the U.S. federal government’s Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health chaired by the U.S. Surgeon General and on the National Advisory Council for minority health and health disparities. He has won many awards for mentoring, research and teaching. Ahluwalia trained at New York University, received a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Master of Public Health degree at Tulane University, a medical residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a clinical epidemiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School, where he received a master’s degree in health policy.