Co-Director of the Harvard Medical Center for Mental Health and Media.
Dr. Olson is a public health practitioner and researcher on the psychiatry faculty at Harvard Medical School. She has extensive experience in the field of health behavior change and has worked on the assessment of smoking prevention and intervention programs for such organizations as the Public Health Institute, Bay Area Community Resources, Bay Area Region Tobacco Education Resource, the American Lung Association of San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, and others.
She brings a strong public health perspective to the project.
Select published works:
While many of her writings in the area are proprietary (e.g., reports to the organizations which employed her as a consultant), a sample of her published articles related to tobacco cessation include:
Olson, C. K. (1999). Countering pro-tobacco influences at the racetrack. American Journal of Public Health, 89(9), 1431-1432.
Olson, C. K., Kutner, L. (2000, June). A comparison of the health effects of alcohol consumption and tobacco use in America (monograph). New York: American Council on Science and Health.
QuitAssist® Editors and Review Board| Editor/Writer | Co-editor/Writer of QuitAssist® in Spanish |
| Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D. Harvard Medical School |
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Ph.D. Rutgers University |
| Review Board Members | |
| Jonathan Bloomberg, M.D. University of Illinois College of Medicine |
Jed E. Rose, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center |
| Rafael Art. Javier, Ph.D., ABPP St. John's University |
Robert L. Sokolove, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
