Todd Rogers, Ph.D., is a Research Program Director with the Public Health Institute (PHI), Oakland, California, where he specializes in evaluation of large-scale public health programs and policy initiatives.  He is Principal Investigator on the Evaluation of Turning Point, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) program designed to transform and strengthen the public health system.  He is a lead investigator on the National Evaluation of Free To Grow, a substance abuse prevention initiative also funded by RWJF, and he serves as evaluator for the National Policy and Legal Analysis Network component of the RWJF Childhood Obesity Prevention Portfolio.  Dr. Rogers is also a co-investigator on an NCI-funded International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program project to develop a Hungarian Tobacco Research Center with investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and in Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary).


With colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health (CDC-OSH), Dr. Rogers co-authored the 2005 book Key Outcome Indicators for Evaluating Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, and is currently developing indicator guidance material for evaluation of CDC-funded heart disease and stroke  prevention programs.  Since 1989 Dr. Rogers has worked extensively with the California Department of Public Health, conducting evaluation research and providing guidance on evaluation activities for the California Tobacco Control Program.  Dr. Rogers was a member of the Evaluation Advisory Committee for the Florida Tobacco Control Program, and has worked on planning and evaluation of for several other statewide tobacco control programs.  Dr. Rogers currently serves on the Evaluation Task Force for the California Tobacco Control Program, and is a member of the Senior Advisory Panel to the New York Tobacco Control Program.  Dr. Rogers has been on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals, including Tobacco Control (Statistics and Methodology Editor, 1997-current), as well as on various scientific review and advisory committees for state and national public health organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.


As Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1987-97), Dr. Rogers was Scientific Director for the statewide Independent Evaluation of the California Tobacco Control Program, and led many other research and evaluation projects addressing tobacco control and other public health issues.  And, as Director of the Stanford Health Promotion Resource Center during this same period, Dr. Rogers and his staff provided technical assistance, training, and resource materials on health promotion and disease prevention to an international clientele of public health practitioners, including state tobacco control programs as well as participants in NCI’s ASSIST and CDC’s IMPACT programs.  Prior to his employment at Stanford, Dr. Rogers directed the Division of Behavioral Science and Health Promotion at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas.  After earning his degree in Clinical Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University (1979), Dr. Rogers completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1979-82).