Dr. Jeffrey Drope is a Research Professor in the School of Public Health at University of Illinois Chicago, focusing on the nexus of public health (including tobacco control, food security, alcohol control, etc.) and economic policymaking, especially taxation, trade and investment. His work integrates these areas in proactive ways that engender both improved public health outcomes and economic prosperity. His tobacco control work focuses particularly on tobacco taxation, illicit trade of tobacco products, the regulation of non-combustible tobacco products like e-cigarettes, tobacco’s economic costs, and the economics of tobacco farming. Recent funding comes from the Bloomberg Philanthropies and the US National Institutes of Health. He is the author/editor of four books and more than 150 research articles, chapters and reports on the political economy of non-communicable diseases, including in journals such as the Lancet and Social Science & Medicine, among many others. With colleagues globally, he works to provide technical support and counsel on these issues to governments, intergovernmental organizations, and research institutions. Jeff was previously Scientific Vice President of Economic and Health Policy Research at the American Cancer Society.