Allison A. Temourian, Ph.D.

Recent Activities 2025 

• December 17 - Received a Health Equity Network Travel Award to attend the 2026 SRNT Annual Meeting. Thank you to the committee for this award!
• September 7 - New publication in AJPM Focus, assessing cannabis use prevalence among youth who use tobacco products using six waves of publicly available PATH data
• July 11 - My newest paper, published in Current Addiction Reports, is a scoping review that highlights how the non-standardization of single item questions assessing perceptions of nicotine addiction contributes to a lack of understanding of what addiction means to the general public
  • Check out Supplement 1, where all single-item questions are compiled into one document to display the heterogeneity in item phrasing, despite attempting to assess the same construct
• April 26 - New publication in Tobacco Use Insights for my dissertation work developing and validating a scale to assess perceptions of nicotine addiction in line with the clinical dimensions of tobacco use disorder
• February 20 - New publication in Urban Science examining the usability of two tobacco product waste collection protocols using a community engaged approach
  • This paper was featured as the issue cover, check out the in-field images!
• January 22 -  Received a Diversity Scholars Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Office of Research Training, Diversity, and Disparities (ORTDD) to present at SRNT 2025
  • I was honored to receive this award, but due to administrative changes in the U.S., I have been informed that the funding agency can no longer support this award. I understand and respect the decision made by the funding agency. 
• January 13  - New publication in Health Communication examining perceptions towards the U.S. FDA e-cigarette warning labels among young adults in California

Fellowships and Awards