Dr. Carrie Rosario (Public Health Education) has been appointed by Governor Roy Cooper to the North Carolina Institute of Medicine as a member at-large. She currently serves as a member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine’s Healthy North Carolina 2030 Task Force.
Her research interests relate broadly to addressing tobacco-related health disparities as communities of color and low socioeconomic communities bear a disproportionate burden of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. She specifically examines institutional, community, and policy-level influences on tobacco product usage patterns within young adults and college students.
Most recently, Rosario has explored the intersection of health literacy and tobacco use, elucidating the relationship between health-related messages sent by the university culture and college students’ health literacy and tobacco use behaviors. Currently, she is investigating the relationship between health literacy dimensions, alternative tobacco product and poly use to determine how it can inform tailored health communication interventions and tobacco regulatory policies.
