The National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) is one of the largest, long-standing gatherings for top United States tobacco control professionals. The convening attracts a diversity of public health professionals committed to best practices and policies to reduce tobacco use—the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States.

The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) works alongside government agencies, private foundations, non-profit organizations, and leading researchers to develop a relevant and timely agenda for all tobacco control professionals.

Director of the Center for Toxicology and Human Health, UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights

Christa Wright is the Director of Toxicology at the Center for Toxicology and Human Health within Chemical Insights in Marietta, Georgia. Her work aims to unravel particle and chemical mediated molecular mechanisms that causes cellular phenotypic changes, which may lead to disease development. Using cutting edge instrumentation, Wright works to link chemical and particle emission exposures from various consumer products to adverse cellular outcomes using a systems biology approach.

Wright received a Ph.D. in Environmental Systems/Environmental Toxicology and a Masters in Cancer Biology from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduate school, Wright completed a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute postdoctoral training fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.

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