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Donna Shelley
Donna Shelley, MD, MPH
NYU School of Global Public Health - Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Public Health Policy and Management
Email: donna.shelley@nyu.edu
Education
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
MPH, Columbia University
BA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
Tobacco use treatment, Tobacco use policy, Implementation science, Health services research
BIO
Donna Shelley is a faculty member in the New York University School of Global Public Health and has faculty appointments in the NYU Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing. Her research, cited in the 2008 PHS Guideline on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, has been funded by AHRQ, NIH, and CDC among others and is focused in the areas of tobacco control policy research, implementation science with a specific focus on studying health care system change to improve the quality of tobacco use treatment across a wide range of health care settings and developing efficacious cessation treatments for underserved populations, including smokers with comorbid conditions.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Implementing Tobacco Use Treatment Guidelines in Community Health Centers in Vietnam. Active
Principal Investigator, Assessing the Use of Electronic Cigarettes as a Smoking Cessation Intervention. Completed
Principal Investigator, Evaluation of Smoke-Free Housing Policy Impacts on Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Health Outcomes. Completed
Principal Investigator, Feasibility and Acceptability of a Text Messaging Intervention to Increase Smoking Cessation in Vietnam. Completed
Principal Investigator, Implementing Tobacco Use Treatment Guidelines in Dental Public Health Clinics. Completed
Principal Investigator, Implementing Tobacco Use Treatment in HIV Clinics In Viet Nam. Completed
Principal Investigator, Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Medication Among PLWHA. Completed
Principal Investigator, Optimizing Tobacco Treatment for Smokers Seeking Lung Cancer Screening. Completed
Principal Investigator, Testing Clinical Decision Support for Treating Tobacco Use in Dental Clinics. Completed
Publications

Recent

Doran KM, Velez L, Spiers A, Hernandez P, Blaufarb S, Pyle B, Cleland CM, Shelley D, O'Grady MA (2026).
The permanent supportive housing overdose prevention project
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 187, 113302. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2026.113302.

Shelley D, Rigotti NA, Murthy P, Van Minh H, Siddiqi K (2026).
Evidence-based tobacco-cessation strategies for low- and middle-income countries
New England Journal of Medicine, 395 (7), 684-693. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra2507061.

Kapur R, Briggs A, Moinul D, Giorgadze T, Guevara Alvarez G, Namusisi KN, Purtle J, Armstrong-Hough M, Shelley D (2026).
A content analysis of global and national policies, plans, and guidelines to integrate NCDs with HIV care in LMICs
PLOS Global Public Health, 6 (8), e0007072. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0007072. PMCID: PMC13450756.

Lindenfeld Z, Chang JE, Fenstemaker C, Lai AY, Pagan J, Cronin CE, Shelley DR, Franz B (2026).
Strategies to support care transitions for patients with opioid use disorder: Pathways and partnerships for success
Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 17, 1-6. doi: 10.1177/21501319251387820. PMCID: PMC13049348.

Rhodes-Bratton B, Goodman M, Williams NJ, Shelley D, Gill E, Anastasiou E, Reiss J, Punter MA, Wallach A, Thorpe LE (2026).
“The agenda of the people”: A multisector partnership for COVID-19 mitigation in New York City
American Journal of Public Health, 116 (4), 431-436. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308358. PMCID: PMC12981173.

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