Corinne G. Husten, MD, MPH

Executive Vice President for Program and Policy

Dr. Husten is the Executive Vice President for Program and Policy at Partnership for Prevention, a non-profit, non-partisan organization committed to improving the health of all people by preventing illness and injury. She was initially board certified in family practice and subsequently in preventive medicine. After practicing as a family practice physician in the private sector for seven years, she completed a Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She then went to the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she served for nearly twelve years as chief of the Epidemiology Branch and more than two years as acting director of the Office.

During her career, Dr. Husten has made significant contribution to all major U.S. tobacco control guidelines, including “Best Practices for Tobacco Control” 1999 and 2007, the Community Preventive Services Task Force tobacco cessation guideline recommendations, and the 1996, 2000, and 2008 Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guidelines on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. She led the release of the 2004 Surgeon General’s report on secondhand smoke, which has led to stronger smoke-free policies in states, communities, and organizations. She has contributed to several other Surgeon General’s reports, including a chapter editor for the 2001 women’s report and as a contributor and reviewer for the 1994 youth report and the 2000 report on effective tobacco control interventions. She also recommended language for the first-ever cigar warning labels, oversaw the development of the smokeless tobacco reporting requirements under the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, developed model tobacco cessation benefit language, initiated the Office on Smoking and Health’s smoke-free conference policy (which has now been adopted by NCI, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and all of CDC), provided technical assistance to several Framework Convention on Tobacco Control protocols, and provided substantial technical assistance for the development of the Medicare cessation counseling benefit. Dr. Husten has more than 100 scientific publications on a variety of health-related issues. She received a medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and a master’s in public health in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She currently is on the Board of the North American Quitline Consortium.