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Geoffrey Fong

ResearcherPsychologyUniversity of Waterloo

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Geoffrey Fong

Researcher

Psychology

Health Sciences

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (9 CIHR, 1 SSHRC, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2026.
Supervisor on 7 trainee awards (7 CIHR), most recently in 2014.

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Framework Convention On Tobacco Control Global Health Health Policy Population Health Tobacco Use Disease Prevention Cancer Prevention Cohort Survey

Latest papers

What cigarette price would drive Vietnamese people who smoke to quit smoking? Findings from the 2019-2020 ITC Vietnam surveys.
Tobacco control · 2025
Impact of the European Union's menthol cigarette ban on smoking cessation outcomes: longitudinal findings from the 2020-2021 ITC Netherlands Surveys.
Tobacco control · 2024
Beyond the European Union Tobacco Products Directive: smokers' and recent quitters' support for further tobacco control measures (2016-2018).
Tobacco control · 2022

All 8 publications

Latest funding

The Global Prevention of Disease (GPrev) Project: From Evidence Synthesis to Simulation Modeling to Population Impact-Estimating the Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Reduction and Lives Saved in Five Diverse Low- and Middle-Income Countries
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$2,570,400
Evaluating and understanding tobacco and nicotine products among youth and adults in Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$3,656,700
Mitigating COVID-19 variant spread by leveraging social psychological and neurobiological markers to optimize public health communications during the first vaccine rollout.
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$496,565

All 22 grants and awards

8 publications.

What cigarette price would drive Vietnamese people who smoke to quit smoking? Findings from the 2019-2020 ITC Vietnam surveys.

Tran TPT, Nguyen TNP, Vu TT, Duong TA, Phan HT, Luong NK, The SD, Lim MK, Quah ACK, Thompson ME, Fong G, Oh JK, Hoang MV

Tobacco control2025

DOI: 10.1136/tc-2024-059029 PMID: 40506225

Impact of the European Union's menthol cigarette ban on smoking cessation outcomes: longitudinal findings from the 2020-2021 ITC Netherlands Surveys.

Kyriakos CN, Driezen P, Fong G, Chung-Hall J, Hyland A, Geboers C, Quah ACK, Willemsen MC, Filippidis FT

Tobacco control2024

DOI: 10.1136/tc-2022-057428 PMID: 36163172

Beyond the European Union Tobacco Products Directive: smokers' and recent quitters' support for further tobacco control measures (2016-2018).

Nogueira SO, Driezen P, Fu M, Hitchman SC, Tigova O, Castellano Y, Kyriakos CN, Zatoński MZ, Mons U, Quah ACK, Demjén T, Trofor AC, Przewozniak K, Katsaounou P, Fong G, Vardavas CI, Fernández E, EUREST-PLUS Consortium

Tobacco control2022

DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056177 PMID: 33727255

Factors associated with changes in flavored tobacco products used: Findings from wave 2 and wave 3 (2014-2016) of the population assessment of tobacco and health (PATH) study.

Bansal-Travers M, Rivard C, Silveira ML, Kimmel H, Poonai K, Bernat JK, Jackson K, Rudy S, Johnson A, Cullen KA, Goniewicz M, Travers M, Hyland A, Villanti A, Hrywna M, Abrams D, Fong G, Elton-Marshall T, Stanton C, Sharma E

Addictive behaviors2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107290 PMID: 35220150

Cardiovascular Outcomes among Combustible-Tobacco and Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Users in Waves 1 through 5 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2019.

Mahoney MC, Rivard C, Kimmel HL, Hammad HT, Sharma E, Halenar MJ, Sargent J, Cummings KM, Niaura R, Goniewicz ML, Bansal-Travers M, Hatsukami D, Gaalema D, Fong G, Gravely S, Christensen CH, Haskins R, Silveira ML, Blanco C, Compton W, Stanton CA, Hyland A

International journal of environmental research and public health2022

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19074137 PMID: 35409819

Age-Related Interactions on Key Theoretical Determinants of Smoking Cessation: Findings from the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys (2016-2020).

Le Grande M, Borland R, Yong HH, McNeill A, Fong G, Cummings KM

Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2022

DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntab230 PMID: 34755869

Smokers' awareness of filter ventilation, and how they believe it affects them: findings from the ITC Four Country Survey.

King B, Borland R, Le Grande M, O'Connor R, Fong G, McNeill A, Hatsukami D, Cummings M

Tobacco control2021

DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056134 PMID: 34131073

Cannabis use among a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of smokers and non-smokers in the Netherlands: results from the 2015 ITC Netherlands Gold Magic Survey.

Fix BV, Smith D, O'Connor R, Heckman BW, Willemsen MC, Cummings M, Fong G

BMJ open2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024497 PMID: 30833306

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Framework Convention On Tobacco Control Dear Professor Fong, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "What cigarette price would drive Vietnamese people who smoke to quit smoking? Findings from the 2019-2020 ITC Vietnam surveys." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "The Global Prevention of Disease (GPrev) Project: From Evidence Synthesis to Simulation Modeling to Population Impact-Estimating the Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Reduction and Lives Saved in Five Diverse Low- and Middle-Income Countries" (2026), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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What cigarette price would drive Vietnamese people who smoke to quit smoking? Findings from the 2019-2020 ITC Vietnam surveys.

Impact of the European Union's menthol cigarette ban on smoking cessation outcomes: longitudinal findings from the 2020-2021 ITC Netherlands Surveys.

Beyond the European Union Tobacco Products Directive: smokers' and recent quitters' support for further tobacco control measures (2016-2018).

Factors associated with changes in flavored tobacco products used: Findings from wave 2 and wave 3 (2014-2016) of the population assessment of tobacco and health (PATH) study.

Cardiovascular Outcomes among Combustible-Tobacco and Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Users in Waves 1 through 5 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, 2013-2019.

Age-Related Interactions on Key Theoretical Determinants of Smoking Cessation: Findings from the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys (2016-2020).

Smokers' awareness of filter ventilation, and how they believe it affects them: findings from the ITC Four Country Survey.

Cannabis use among a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of smokers and non-smokers in the Netherlands: results from the 2015 ITC Netherlands Gold Magic Survey.

The Global Prevention of Disease (GPrev) Project: From Evidence Synthesis to Simulation Modeling to Population Impact-Estimating the Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Reduction and Lives Saved in Five Diverse Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Evaluating and understanding tobacco and nicotine products among youth and adults in Canada

Mitigating COVID-19 variant spread by leveraging social psychological and neurobiological markers to optimize public health communications during the first vaccine rollout.

The impact of vaping policies on the e-cigarette product market and youth vaping.

The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: Using Evidence From Evaluation Studies of the Impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to Tackle Tobacco Use, the Leading Preventable Cause of Death and Disease in Canada and Throughout the World

Evaluating and Understanding the Impact of Tobacco Control Policies of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in a Rapidly Changing Global Tobacco Market: The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project

Addressing low knowledge about the harms of tobacco use through pictorial health warnings in three African countries

The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: Evaluating the impact of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control With an Emphasis on Low and Middle Income Countries

The CIHR Knowledge Translation Prize

The Role of time perspective in understanding and predicting smoking behaviour: Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Surveys