Jessica Barrington-Trimis, PhD, MS, MA
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Biography
Dr. Barrington-Trimis is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California. She directs the USC Epidemiology of Substance Use Research Group and is a faculty member in the USC Institute for Addiction Science and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Barrington-Trimis' research focuses on investigation of the rapidly changing tobacco and alternative tobacco landscape. Her work aims to identify intra-individual psychological, behavioral, and social processes associated with nicotine use in adolescence and early adulthood, and to elucidate the behavioral consequences (e.g., transition to more harmful patterns of substance use) and physiological consequences (e.g., adverse respiratory health effects of e-cigarette use) of varying patterns of nicotine product use in adolescence, with the goal of informing regulatory efforts to protect adolescents and young adults.
Research Interests
- Population Characteristics
- Social Environment
- Risk Factors
- Tobacco Control
- Adolescents
- Young Adults
- COVID-19
- Health Behavior
- Surveillance
- Population Surveillance
- Cohort Studies
- Epidemiological Monitoring
- Epidemiological Factors
Publications
Reducing the Adverse Public Health Impact of Menthol Cigarettes in Disparate Populations.
Nicotine Tob Res. 2020 Apr 17;22(4):456-457. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa027. PubMed PMID: 32067042;
Adolescent menthol cigarette use and risk of nicotine dependence: Findings from the national Population Assessment on Tobacco and Health (PATH) study.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Jan 1;206:107715. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107715. Epub 2019 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 31760252; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6980659.
Cigarette Use, E-Cigarette Use, and Dual Product Use Are Higher Among Adults With Serious Psychological Distress in the United States: 2014-2017.
Nicotine Tob Res. 2020 Oct 8;22(10):1875-1882. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa061. PubMed PMID: 32285121; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7542656.
Characterizing the predictive validity of measures of susceptibility to future use of combustible, vaporized and edible cannabis products in adolescent never-users.
Addiction. 2020 Dec;115(12):2339-2348. doi: 10.1111/add.15078. Epub 2020 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 32267589;
"I'm using cigarettes to quit JUUL": An analysis of Twitter posts about JUUL cessation.
Addict Behav Rep. 2020 Dec;12:100286. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100286. Epub 2020 May 19. PubMed PMID: 32637562; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7330876.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Addiction Science