Joshua Yang, professor of public healthCal State Fullerton public health researcher Joshua Yang has been appointed to California’s Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee to help oversee state tobacco control and prevention efforts. Yang has worked in tobacco control research for more than 15 years, including examining industry tactics and policy relating to tobacco control and alternative products. “I am hoping that my appointment will allow me to contribute to a tobacco- and nicotine-free California.”The Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee oversees the use of Proposition 99 and Proposition 56 tobacco tax revenues for tobacco control and prevention education and research. Yang earned his doctorate in public health from UCLA in 2005 and then worked as a senior researcher at UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research until 2007. He also holds a master’s degree in public health, focusing on community health sciences, and a bachelor’s degree in physiological sciences, both from UCLA.