Julia Soulakova will give a virtual talk on “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care for Smoking Cessation Among U.S. Adults” at 1:30 p.m. April 11.

The event is free and open to the public. Register for the Zoom link.

Because of multiple long-term efforts to decrease smoking prevalence overall and close the gap in the quality of healthcare for diverse racial and ethnic subpopulations in the United States, the prevalence of smoking has decreased overall in the past decade. However, these reductions were not uniform across race/ethnicity. In the seminar, Soulakova will address the role of cessation aids in smoking cessation, racial/ethnic disparities in utilization of smoking cessation aids, and the role of health insurance coverage in smoking prevention and cessation among diverse racial/ethnic groups.

Soulakova is a professor of medicine in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. She is a biostatistician by training with an interdisciplinary research program that integrates survey methodology, biostatistics, and tobacco research. Her primary research is targeted on determining the quality of smoking-cessation-related health care for diverse racial and ethnic groups, over-time changes in the quality of the health care and smokers’ awareness and attitudes regarding smoking cessation methods and treatments.

This talk is sponsored by the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, and it is an installment within their Seminar Series.