Douglas Luke, PhD

Medical School Department Public Health - Social Work
Research Program Prevention and Control
Douglas Luke

Researcher Background

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Public Health, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis

Education

  • 1998: MA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  • 1990: PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Research & Selected Publications

Research Interest

Youth smoking, with special emphasis on smoking prevention and youth tobacco control policies. I am particularly interested in how social, institutional and cultural factors influence teen smoking. I also am interested in innovative quantitative and qualitative analytic methods. Specifically, I have published work on cluster analysis, exploratory data analysis, survival analysis, focus group and other qualitative methodologies and geographic information systems techniques.

Research Publications

The Road from Science to Health: The Importance of Designing For, Measuring, and Communicating Impact in Public Health.
Authors:

Luke DA, Malone S, Galea S

Journal & Year:

Annu Rev Public Health • 2026

Cooling down hotspots of retail tobacco products: addressing disparities in the built environment through policy.
Authors:

Combs T, Chaitan V, Golden S, one or more additional authors omitted Luke D

Journal & Year:

Health Place • 2025

Supporting teams with designing for dissemination and sustainability: the design, development, and usability of a digital interactive platform.
Authors:

Kepper MM, L'Hotta AJ, Shato T, one or more additional authors omitted Luke D, one or more additional authors omitted Morse B

Journal & Year:

Implement Sci • 2024

Lowering the burden: Shorter versions of the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT) and Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT).
Authors:

Malone S, Prewitt K, McKay V, one or more additional authors omitted Luke DA

Journal & Year:

Implement Sci Commun • 2024

Bridges and Mechanisms: Integrating Systems Science Thinking into Implementation Research.
Authors:

Luke DA, Powell BJ, Paniagua-Avila A

Journal & Year:

Annu Rev Public Health • 2024

Action planning for building public health program sustainability: results from a group-randomized trial.
Authors:

Moreland-Russell S, Combs T, Gannon J, one or more additional authors omitted Luke D, Brownson RC

Journal & Year:

Implement Sci • 2024

Extending the translational science benefits model to implementation science for cancer prevention and control.
Authors:

Emmons KM, Brownson RC, Luke DA

Journal & Year:

J Clin Transl Sci • 2024