Teresa DeAtley

Ph.D. ’21

Teresa DeAtley is a Ph.D. graduate from the SHARe Lab. Her research interests center broadly around domestic and international tobacco control policy, vulnerable populations, tobacco regulatory science, and advocacy. Teresa’s dissertation focuses on nicotine reduction policy through the lens of individuals who suffer from psychiatric conditions. Two of her dissertation papers use behavioral economic and qualitative methods to investigate how this policy might affect cigarette use among smokers with psychiatric disorders. Her third paper builds off of recent findings that smokers with serious mental illness (SMI) experience stronger smoking-related respiratory symptoms but have lower smoking risk perceptions than those without SMI. That paper will use longitudinal data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study to examine the extent to which smoking risk perceptions moderate and mediate changes in smoking over time among smokers with psychiatric conditions.