Steve is a Health Education Specialist with the Health Communications Branch of the Office on Smoking and Health at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this role, he develops and disseminates publications, presentations, and other materials on tobacco topics, responds to internal, public, and press inquiries, and tracks news media coverage of tobacco issues. Steve also serves as strategic coordinator for OSH's secondhand smoke activities.

Ursula Bauer is the Director of the Tobacco Control Program at the New York State Department of Health. She holds a PhD in epidemiology from Yale University and a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University. Ursula has worked in state health departments in Louisiana and Florida and for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has been involved in the field of tobacco control, surveillance and evaluation for ten years. She joined the New York State Department of Health in 2001.

Laura received her Ed. S. in 1986 from Stanford University in evaluation and program development. She is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Wyoming and Manager of the Center for Health and Education Studies at the University of Wyoming's Survey & Analysis Center. Currently, she is lead evaluator for Wyoming's Tobacco Prevention and Control Project and lead evaluator on several other projects targeting education and public health. Previously, she was co-principal investigator on Wyoming's 21 C SIG project.

Andrew Hyland, PhD is an Associate Member in the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dr. Hyland holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a MA in Statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Hyland's primary research interests lie in evaluating the impact of policies aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with the use of tobacco products. Examples of his work include an evaluation of the economic impact of clean indoor air laws, creating a system to monitor new tobacco products as they become available to the public, monitoring trends in cancer rates and cancer risk factors in the population using geographical methods, and assessing the impact of a variety of tobacco policy measures on cessation and mortality in a large cohort of smokers. His recent work has involved facilitating comprehensive evaluations of national and sub-national clean air regulations and examining the impact of low and untaxed cigarette sales on indicators of smoking cessation and uncollected tax revenue.