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Philip Gardiner is a Public Health activist, administrator, evaluator and researcher.  For the past 20 years, he has worked on studies ranging from Hypertension, Multiculturalism and AIDS, to Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Diabetes and Smoking.  Dr Gardiner received his Doctorate in Behavioral Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, where he focused on Youth Violence as a public health issue.  Through out his research career, Dr. Gardiner has maintained his community activism to address racial disparities in health, through writing, organizing, evaluating and public speaking.  

Dr. Gardiner is the Social & Behavioral Sciences and Neurosciences and Nicotine Dependence Research Administrator for the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), University of California Office of the President.

Dr. Gardiner has spoken at numerous tobacco control and research conferences on the need for greater funding for participatory research and has authored a number of articles.  Dr. Gardiner collaborated on a National Cancer Institute Monograph on Teen Smoking, where he authored the section on African American Youth smoking habits.  In July of 2000, Dr. Gardiner authored the article, Mentholated Cigarettes and African-Americans: An Open Question, which was a driving force that helped launch the First Conference on Menthol Cigarettes: Setting the Research Agenda, held in Atlanta Georgia in March of 2002.   Dr. Gardiner was one of the co-chairs of this conference.  Subsequently, Dr. Gardiner served as a guest Scientific Editor for the Journal of Nicotine & Tobacco Research in 2004, where he authored the article:  The African Americanization of menthol cigarette use in the United States.   Along with his other duties at TRDRP, Dr. Gardiner is the editor of Burning Issues, the programs newsletter.