Jeremiah Mock, MSc, PhD
Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
School of Nursing

His research explores how cultural and political-economic change can influence tobacco use within a cultural group. He is now working on the tobacco/nicotine endgame. His work has recently expanded into examining the cultural phenomena of young people’s use of e-cigarettes, heated tobacco product (e.g., IQOS), and cannabis products.

Currently, Dr. Mock is principal investigator of a four-year study in California and the Pacific Rim focused on generating evidence to support denormalization of smoking and vaping in the great outdoors. Through the analysis of tobacco industry documents and tobacco advertising, Dr. Mock and his collaborators are identifying strategies that tobacco companies have used to propagate use of their products in outdoor settings. At parks and beaches throughout California, Japan and Thailand, Dr. Mock and his team are conducting interviews, making observations and collecting discarded waste from the use of combustible tobacco, e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products and cannabis. The goal of this study is to document the environmental impacts and nuisance of smoking and vaping in outdoor recreational areas, marine environments and wilderness habitats.

He is also principal investigator on a participatory pilot study on further documenting e-cigarette waste contamination at high schools and heated tobacco product waste at parks and recreational areas in Japan and California. In this study, his colleagues are conducting ecotoxicological analyses of collected items.

Recently, Dr. Mock led the first-of-its-kind garbology study on how teen “juuling” and use of cigarettes, cigarillos, and cannabis are polluting high school environments. His publications include the first study to document high levels of secondhand smoke exposure at popular beaches, and one of the first studies showing that beaches are heavily polluted from tobacco waste. He has also published research on the burden of secondhand smoke exposure on the respiratory health of Thai children, tobacco company interference in Thailand, waterpipe use in Syria, and smoking patterns among Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant communities in the U.S.

Dr. Mock teaches courses on health promotion planning and evaluation, public health research methods, and intercultural communication. He has conducted trainings on health anthropology and evaluation research for the Ministries of Public Health in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, with Osaka Prefecture Department of Public Health, and at the WHO Kobe Health Development Research Center.

• Trash Taxonomy Tool: harmonizing classification systems used to describe trash in environments
  Microplastics 2023 34. Hapich H, Cowger W, Gray A, Tangri N, Hale T, Magdy A, Vermilye A, Yu W, Ayres D, Moore C, Vermilye J, Singh S, Haiman ANK, Youngblood K, Kang Y, McCauley M, Lok T, Moore S, Baggs E, Lippiatt S, …
• Tobacco Product Waste in California: A White Paper
  2022 Novotyny TE, Bialous SA, Hill K, Hamzai L, Beutel M, Hoh E, Mock J, Matt GE
• Identifying correlates of salt reduction practices among rural, middle-aged Muslim Indonesians with hypertension through structural equation modeling.
  Nutrition and health 2022 Mizutani M, Tashiro J, Sugiarto H, Mock J, Nakayama K
• A Review of Environmental Pollution from the Use and Disposal of Cigarettes and Electronic Cigarettes: Contaminants, Sources, and Impacts
  Sustainability 2021 MarcW. Beutel 1,* , Thomas C. Harmon 1, Thomas E. Novotny 2 , Jeremiah Mock 3 , Michelle E. Gilmore, Stephen C. Hart, Samuel Traina, Srimanti Duttagupta, Andrew Brooks , Christopher L. Jerde, Eunha …
• The Implementation Activist: How One Determined Person with a Camera Has Achieved Enforcement of Smoke-Free Laws throughout Thailand.
  Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 2021 Charoenca N, Kungskulniti N, Pipattanachat V, Pitayarangsarit S, Hamann S, Mock J
• Positive Deviance: Frequent Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Non-hypertensive Middle-aged Women in Rural Indonesia.
  Acta medica Indonesiana 2021 Mizutani M, Sugiarto H, Bando H, Kondo I, Mock J
• Touch Deeply: A new educational approach for teaching nursing students about their humanity and the art of caring before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Journal of Japanese Red Cross Kyushu International College of Nursing 2021 Masaki Moriyama, Jeremiah Mock
• How Thailand's greater convergence created sustainable funding for emerging health priorities caused by globalization.
  Global health action 2015 Charoenca N, Kungskulniti N, Mock J, Hamann S, Vathesatogkit P
• Culture, acculturation and smoking use in Hmong, Khmer, Laotians, and Vietnamese communities in Minnesota.
  BMC public health 2014 Burgess DJ, Mock J, Schillo BA, Saul JE, Phan T, Chhith Y, Alesci N, Foldes SS
• Cultivating greater well-being: The benefits Thai organic farmers experience from adopting Buddhist eco-spirituality
  Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 2014 Kaufman AH, Mock J
• Determining the burden of secondhand smoke exposure on the respiratory health of Thai children.
  Tobacco induced diseases 2013 Charoenca N, Kungskulniti N, Tipayamongkholgul M, Sujirarat D, Lohchindarat S, Mock J, Hamann SL
• Success counteracting tobacco company interference in Thailand: an example of FCTC implementation for low- and middle-income countries.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2012 Charoenca N, Mock J, Kungskulniti N, Preechawong S, Kojetin N, Hamann SL
• Building tobacco control research in Thailand: meeting the need for innovative change in Asia.
  Health research policy and systems 2012 Hamann SL, Mock J, Hense S, Charoenca N, Kungskulniti N
• A pleasure among friends: how narghile (waterpipe) smoking differs from cigarette smoking in Syria.
  Tobacco control 2008 Hammal F, Mock J, Ward KD, Eissenberg T, Maziak W
• Effective lay health worker outreach and media-based education for promoting cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese American women.
  American journal of public health 2007 Mock J, McPhee SJ, Nguyen T, Wong C, Doan H, Lai KQ, Nguyen KH, Nguyen TT, Bui-Tong N
• Papanicolaou testing among Vietnamese Americans: results of a multifaceted intervention.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2006 Nguyen TT, McPhee SJ, Gildengorin G, Nguyen T, Wong C, Lai KQ, Lam H, Mock J, Luong TN, Bui-Tong N, Ha-Iaconis T
• Processes and capacity-building benefits of lay health worker outreach focused on preventing cervical cancer among Vietnamese.
  Health promotion practice 2006 Mock J, Nguyen T, Nguyen KH, Bui-Tong N, McPhee SJ
• The tobacco epidemic in Syria.
  Tobacco control 2006 Ward KD, Eissenberg T, Rastam S, Asfar T, Mzayek F, Fouad MF, Hammal F, Mock J, Maziak W
• Disparities in colorectal cancer screening rates among Asian Americans and non-Latino whites.
  Cancer 2005 Wong ST, Gildengorin G, Nguyen T, Mock J
• Highlights/best practices of San Francisco's Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART).
  Cancer 2005 McPhee SJ, Nguyen TT, Mock J, Nguyen T, Lam H
• Mapping the health and environmental situation in informal zones in Aleppo, Syria: report from the Aleppo household survey.
  International archives of occupational and environmental health 2005 Maziak W, Ward KD, Mzayek F, Rastam S, Bachir ME, Fouad MF, Hammal F, Asfar T, Mock J, Nuwayhid I, Frumkin H, Grimsley F, Chibli M
• Settling with danger: ethnographic assessment of community conditions and health problems in peri-urban settlements in Aleppo, Syria
  Environment and Urbanization 2005 Hammal F, Mock J, Ward KD, Fouad MF, Beech BM, Maziak W
• Increasing Vietnamese-American physicians' knowledge of cervical cancer and Pap testing: impact of continuing medical education programs.
  Ethnicity & disease 2004 Lai KQ, Nguyen TT, Mock J, McPhee SJ, Doan HT, Pham TH
• Qualitative research: contributions to the study of drug use, drug abuse, and drug use(r)-related interventions.
  Substance use & misuse 2004 Nichter M, Quintero G, Nichter M, Mock J, Shakib S
• Exploring the cultural context of tobacco use: a transdisciplinary framework.
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2003 Unger JB, Cruz T, Shakib S, Mock J, Shields A, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Palmer P, Cruz JD, Edsall E, Gritz ER, Glynn T, Johnson CA
• Encouraging Vietnamese-American women to obtain Pap tests through lay health worker outreach and media education.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2003 Lam TK, McPhee SJ, Mock J, Wong C, Doan HT, Nguyen T, Lai KQ, Ha-Iaconis T, Luong TN
• The absence of cancer prevention for the Thai population in the U.S.
  Asian American and Pacific Islander journal of health 2003 Wannasuntad S, May S, Mock J
• Why most women in Syria do not smoke: can the passive barrier of traditions be replaced with an information-based one?
  Public health 2003 Maziak W, Asfar T, Mock J
• Economic analysis of promotion of hepatitis B vaccinations among Vietnamese-American children and adolescents in Houston and Dallas.
  Pediatrics 2003 Zhou F, Euler GL, McPhee SJ, Nguyen T, Lam T, Wong C, Mock J
• Successful promotion of hepatitis B vaccinations among Vietnamese-American children ages 3 to 18: results of a controlled trial.
  Pediatrics 2003 McPhee SJ, Nguyen T, Euler GL, Mock J, Wong C, Lam T, Nguyen W, Nguyen S, Huynh Ha MQ, Do ST, Buu C
• Predictors of cervical Pap smear screening awareness, intention, and receipt among Vietnamese-American women.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2002 Nguyen TT, McPhee SJ, Nguyen T, Lam T, Mock J
• Community-level determinants of child growth in an Indonesian tea plantation.
  European journal of clinical nutrition 2000 Paknawin-Mock J, Jarvis L, Jahari AB, Husaini MA, Pollitt E