C. Anderson Johnson

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Who is C. Anderson Johnson?

C. Anderson Johnson is currently Professor of Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University. He was the Dean of the CGU School of Community and Global Health until June 30, 2013.

Prior to his arrival at CGU, Johnson served as the director of the Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, and Sidney Garfield Professor of Health Sciences and Professor of Preventive Medicine & Psychology at the University of Southern California. He is married to Charisse Vega, a designer, and has two children: a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Caroline.

Johnson earned his B.A. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Social Psychology with a minor emphasis in Neuroscience from Duke University. Prior to his arrival at USC he did postdoctoral work in environmental psychology at the National Bureau of Standards and held a faculty position at the University of Minnesota. His research contributions include mechanisms of action in community-based approaches to tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-abuse prevention.

His recent research has focused on social and cultural change acting in combination with genetically and environmentally driven dispositional characteristics to influence health risk behaviors, including socio-cultural and dispositional interactions influencing the effectiveness of smoking and alcohol abuse prevention programs. Johnson is director of the Pacific Rim Transdisciplinary Tobacco & Alcohol Use Research Center and co-director of the USC Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse Prevention Research Center. He is the founding director of the China Seven Cities Study, a longitudinal study of tobacco use and lifestyles in seven of China’s largest cities.

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Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Duke University
Employment
  • University of Southern California

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on July 23, 2013

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