Professional Summary
Kenneth E. Warner became Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health on July 1, 2005. He is the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan, and has been on the school's faculty since 1972. Presented in 200 professional publications, Dr. Warner's research has focused on economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion, with a special emphasis on tobacco and health. Dr. Warner served as the Senior Scientific Editor of the 25th anniversary Surgeon General's report on smoking and health, published in 1989. He was the founding director of the University of Michigan's Tobacco Research Network. He is on the editorial boards of three professional journals and chairs the board of the international journal Tobacco Control. He is a consultant to numerous governmental bodies, voluntary organizations, and businesses, and was a founding member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation. Dr. Warner has testified before the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Dr. Warner has been cited twice by Delta Omega, the national public health honorary society, for "outstanding achievement in public health." He was awarded the Surgeon General's Medallion by Dr. C. Everett Koop in 1989. In 1990, he received the Leadership Award of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Section of the American Public Health Association. In 1991, Dr. Warner was elected to a four-year term as a Senior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. In 1992, the University of Michigan chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society selected him as a faculty honoree. In 1996, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (and to the governing Council of the Institute in 1999) and was named to the first class of Fellows of the Association for Health Services Research. In 1997, he received the Excellence in Research Award from the UM School of Public Health. In 2001 he was the co-recipient of the inaugural Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award from the University of Iowa College of Public Health. In 2003, he received the international Luther L. Terry Award for Outstanding Leadership in Tobacco Control, recognized in the category of Outstanding Research Contribution. Dr. Warner was a Senior Fellow at the University of Michigan's Institute of Gerontology in 1989-90, a Kellogg National Fellow from 1980 to 1983, and a Visiting Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research at Stanford University during 1975-76.
Courses Taught
HMP200: Health and Society: Introduction to Public Health
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 1974
M.Phil., Economics, Yale University, 1970
A.B. (Summa Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Highest Distinction in Economics), Dartmouth College, 1968
Research Interest & Projects
Tobacco harm reduction policy; economic implications of smoking cessation in the managed care setting; dynamic effects of tobacco control policies.
Selected Publications
Mendez, D. and Warner, K.E. (2008). Setting a challenging yet realistic smoking prevalence target for Healthy People 2020: Learning from the California experience. American Journal of Public Health, 98, 556-559.
Warner, K.E., Mendez, D., and Alshanqeety, O. (2008). Tobacco control success or demographic destiny? Examining the causes behind the low smoking prevalence in California. American Journal of Public Health, 98, 268-9.
Backinger, C.L., O'Connell, M.E. and Warner, K.E., eds. (2007). National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Statement on Tobacco Use Prevention, Cessation, and Control. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33(suppl 6)
Warner, K.E., ed. (2006). Tobacco Control Policy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Warner, K.E. and Mackay, J. (2006). The global tobacco disease pandemic: Nature, causes, and cures. Global Public Health, 1, 65-86.
Warner, K.E. (2005). The role of research in international tobacco control. American Journal of Public Health, 95, 976-984.
Soliman, S., Pollack, H.A., and Warner, K.E. (2004). Decreases in the prevalence of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in the home during the 1990s in families with children. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 314-320.
Mendez, D. and Warner, K.E. (2004). Smoking trends in the US: Declining as expected if not as desired. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 251-252.
Warner, K.E., Jacobson, P.D., and Kaufman, N.K. (2003). Innovative approaches to youth tobacco control: introduction and overview. Tobacco Control, 12(suppl 1), i6-i13.
Warner, K.E. and Martin, E.G. (2003). The U.S. tobacco control community's view of the future of tobacco harm reduction. Tobacco Control, 12, 383-390.
Professional Affiliations
American Public Health Association
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Consultant, World Bank, 1998-2002
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