ANN ARBOR—The American Legacy Foundation has named Kenneth E. Warner, the University of Michigan’s Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Public Health and director of the U-M Tobacco Research Network, to its board of directors.

The non-profit foundation was financed by the Warner’s appointment was formally announced today in Washington, D.C., where the Foundation launched its national public education campaign against tobacco use in the United States. It will have resources in excess of $1 billion over the next four years for the educational campaign.

Warner brings his considerable public health experience and tobacco expertise to the foundation’s seven-member board made up of attorneys general, governors and state legislators.

“Dr. Warner has been recognized by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and the American Public Health Association for his work on tobacco and he’ll be a valuable addition to our board,” said Christine Gregoire, American Legacy Foundation board chair and attorney general for Washington state.

Warner, who has been with the U-M since 1972, is also associate director of the University’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. In 1996, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

He has served as the senior scientific editor of the 25th anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1989 and chairs the board of journal, Tobacco Control. An economist, Warner earned his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1968 and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University in 1970 and 1974. Published in more than 150 publications, Warner’s research has focused on economic and policy aspects of smoking and health.

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