About MPHI

Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research

Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research (CTUPR) is an affiliated program for which MPHI provides management support services. This Center focuses on analyzing depositions and trial testimony from tobacco lawsuits to assess what they reveal in areas such as nicotine addiction and pharmacology, the health consequences of tobacco use, tobacco-product design and manufacturing, tobacco advertising and promotion, youth smoking initiation, and tobacco use cessation.

Leadership

John Beasley, MA
CTPR Program Director
Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research
(517) 381-5406
jbeasley@mphi.org

Mr. Beasley is Program Director for Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research. Previously, Mr. Beasley was employed by the Michigan Department of Community Health. During 30 years of service in Michigan’s state health agency, Mr. Beasley was responsible for developing chronic disease control programs in diabetes, cancer and tobacco. He has also been the administrator of the hypertension control program. Mr. Beasley has served as the state health agency’s equal opportunity contract compliance officer. He has overseen a number of special projects including a Minority Health Task Force, which led to the establishment of the department’s Office of Minority Health, and the 1989 Michigan Tobacco Use Reduction Task Force. Mr. Beasley also coordinated the installation of the department’s original program planning and budgeting system and served as the local health department program planning consultant. Prior to joining the state health agency Mr. Beasley was the Assistant Director of the Escambia County Community Action Agency in Pensacola, Florida and he was a VISTA Volunteer in northern Florida. Mr. Beasley has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Michigan State University and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.