Professional Summary
Clifford E. Douglas became executive director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network (UMTRN) in August 2007 and director of UMTRN in April 2009, succeeding its founding director, Kenneth E. Warner. He has also taught the seminar "Tobacco: From Seedling to Social Policy" (HMP618) since 2005. A tobacco control expert and public policy advocate since 1988, he has written and spoken extensively on a wide range of policy, legal and scientific issues, most recently focusing on regulation of smoking in work places and public places and on potential regulation of tobacco products and tobacco product marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He serves as a consulting attorney for the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project and is a co-founder of, and consultant for, the Analysis of Tobacco Depositions and Trial Testimony Project, a project supported by the National Cancer Institute and the American Legacy Foundation. He has been responsible for numerous investigative reports in national and local broadcast and print media, and regularly publishes commentaries in the national and local press. The book Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry, by the investigative journalist Dan Zegart (New York: Random House, 2000), chronicles his career, including the successful recruitment of tobacco industry whistleblowers to testify in support of health policy initiatives and in legal actions against cigarette companies. His roles as legal strategist and advocate have included service as Special Counsel for U.S. Representative Martin Meehan; coordinator of the Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health in the U.S. House of Representatives; manager of government relations for Tobacco Tax Policy Project of the American Cancer Society; associate director of government relations for the American Lung Association; tobacco policy director of the Advocacy Institute; and assistant director of the national Coalition on Smoking OR Health. Douglas was awarded the Joseph W. Cullen Award by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, a certificate of appreciation from President Jimmy Carter and Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for service in the American Cancer Society's Campaign for a Million Lives, and a Congressional Record Citation by U.S. Representative Richard J. Durbin for contributions made to passage by Congress of the law making all commercial airline flights smoke-free.
Courses Taught
HMP618: Tobacco: From Seedling to Social Policy
HMP653: Law and Public Health
Syllabus (PDF)
Education
J.D., Law, University of Michigan Law School, 1983
B.A., English, University of Michigan, 1980
Selected Publications
Douglas, C." (2007). Proposed regulation of tobacco products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium.
Douglas C.E., Davis R.M. and Beasley J.K. (2006). Epidemiology of the third wave of tobacco litigation in the United States, 1994-2005. Tobacco Control, Vol. 15 (Supp. IV), iv9-iv16.
Davis R.M., Douglas C.E. and Beasley J.K. (2006). The Tobacco Deposition and Trial Testimony Archive (DATTA) Project: Origins, aims, and methods. Tobacco Control, Vol. 15 (Supp. IV), iv4-iv8.
Milberger S., Davis R.M., Douglas C.E. et al (2006). Tobacco manufacturers' defense against plaintiffs' claims of cancer causation: Throwing mud at the wall and hoping some of it will stick. Tobacco Control, Vol. 15 (Supp. IV), iv17-iv26.
Cummings K.M., Brown A. and Douglas C.E. (2006). Consumer acceptable risk: How cigarette companies have responded to accusations that their products are defective. Tobacco Control, Vol. 15 (Supp. IV), iv84-iv89.
Professional Affiliations
American Public Health Association
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
Framework Convention Alliance
Tobacco-Free Michigan
Michigan Public Health Institute
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