Jessica L. Muilenburg is Co-Principal Investigator with Lillian Eby on the third RO1 Project MERITS grant investigating sustainability of smoking cessation programs in substance abuse treatment centers. She received her MPH from Emory University and her PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Dr. Muilenburg is an Associate Professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia.  Her research interests include tobacco use and substance use, tobacco related disparities, and risky sexual behaviors.

Tobacco cessation in substace abuse, Substance use in adolescents, Adolescent risky behaviors, Correlates of smoking behavior in African American adolescents, Health behaviors of African American adolescents