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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, Implementing Tobacco Use Treatment in HIV Clinics In Viet Nam. 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, 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, Torsiglieri A, Moran J, Blaufarb S, Liu AY, Ringrose E, Urban C, Velez L, Hernandez P, O'Grady MA, Shelley D, Cleland CM (2025).
Staff views on overdose prevention in permanent supportive housing
Harm Reduction Journal, 22 (1), 59. doi: 10.1186/s12954-025-01215-x. PMCID: PMC12007226.

Nwaozuru U, Murphy P, Richard A..., Shelley D, ...Iwelunmor J (2025).
The sustainability of health interventions implemented in Africa: An updated systematic review on evidence and future research perspectives
Implementation Science Communications, 6 (1), 39. doi: 10.1186/s43058-025-00716-x. PMCID: PMC11980204.

Anastasiou E, Thorpe LE, Wyka K, Elbel B, Shelley D, Kaplan S, Burke J, Kim B, Newman J, Titus AR (2025).
Evaluation of federally mandated smoke-free housing policy and health outcomes among adults over the age of 50 in low-income, public housing in New York City, 2015-2022
Nicotine and Tobacco Research [Epub 2025 Apr 8]. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaf046.

Shrader CH, Duncan DT, Santoro A, Geng E, Kranzler HR, Hasin D, Shelley D, Kutner B, Sherman SE, Chen YT, Durrell M, Eavou R, Hillary H, Goedel W, Schneider JA, Knox JR (2025).
Social network alcohol use is associated with individual-level alcohol use among Black sexually minoritized men and gender-expansive people: Findings from the Neighborhoods and Networks (N2) cohort study
Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 49 (4), 783-791. doi: 10.1111/acer.70009.

Gaeta Gazzola M, Torsiglieri A, Velez L, Blaufarb S, Hernandez P, O'Grady MA, Blackburn J, Florick J, Cleland CM, Shelley D, Doran KM (2025).
A community-academic partnership to develop an implementation support package for overdose prevention in permanent supportive housing
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 168, 209533. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209533. PMCID: PMC11788923.

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