Lilianna Phan, PhD, MPH, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention with a joint appointment in the Division of Graduate Nursing at the College of Nursing and Health Professions. Dr. Phan joined Drexel as part of the Drexel FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) program. She is also a full member of the Cancer Risk and Control Program with the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Research Consortium.
Dr. Phan’s program of research focuses on understanding multi-level determinants of tobacco and alcohol use among racially minoritized young adult populations and leveraging health communication science to help prevent and reduce use. She utilizes community-engaged, mixed-methods, and experimental approaches including eye-tracking to understand psychosocial factors associated with commercial tobacco use and alcohol use to develop health education interventions.
Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Phan was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Division of Intramural Research. During her NIMHD fellowship, Dr. Phan received the NIH Summer Research Mentor Award for three consecutive years. Dr. Phan also completed early postdoctoral training focusing on tobacco regulatory science and health communication at the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center where she received the 2020 Richard C. Devereaux Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation.