Associate Editor-in-Chief

Tung-Sung Tseng, DrPH, MS, CHES/MCHES (Public Health)

Associate Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, LSUHSC School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, USA

Dr. Tung-Sung Tseng, is Charles L. Brown, Jr., MD, Endowed Professor of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Community Health Science & Policy at School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Dr. Tseng is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) / Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) and serves as editor, associate editor and editor board member for 7 more professional journals. He is an active member of the Tobacco Control Initiative (TCI), Design and Analysis Core, LSU’s Improving Clinical Outcomes Network, Health Care Services Division- Innovation Resource Center (HCSD-IRC) and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center. His primary research interests include tobacco control, childhood obesity, gene-environment interaction, community-based participatory research (CBPR), risk behavioral patterns, health promotion interventions and evaluations, health disparities, and cancer prevention among ethnic minorities and underserved populations. As PI or co-Investigator on several university- and NIH-funded grants, he develops effective intervention approaches and measures of risk behaviors, social determent of health, and other psychosocial factors relevant to the cancer/obesity, and by establishing strong ties with genetic and behaviors intervention as documented in the professional publications. He has published three book chapters and more than 100 peer review articles in leading journals in the field of tobacco, cancer, obesity and health disparities.

Associate Editor-in-Chief 
Terms of Appointment: September 2019 - August 2024; September 2024 - December 2026

Updated on October 11, 2024