Bio
Stephanie Bunch is a Research Public Health Analyst in RTI International’s Center for Program and Policy Evaluation to Advance Community Health and has over 12 years of public health research, implementation, and evaluation experience in a variety of public and private public health settings. Stephanie gained her Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) certificate from the Duke-UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program in 2019 and graduated in 2021 with a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Arizona, where she focused on the clinical implementation science of tobacco cessation programs in rural populations. Her research focuses on tobacco regulatory science, population health, and clinical tobacco cessation interventions. In her current role at RTI, she contributes on tobacco control policy and state program evaluation projects. She has experience in project management, qualitative and quantitative development and analysis, evaluation of tobacco cessation initiatives, protocol development, and report writing. She also has extensive experience collaborating with federal government agencies. At Wake Forest University, she teaches the Epidemiology course and services as the Faculty Advisor for the Deacons for Neurodiversity club.
Teaching
Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
2021 – present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University (HES 360 Epidemiology)
2017 – present Project Manager II, Wake Forest School of Medicine
2016 – present Adjunct Instructor, Appalachian State University
2015 – 2017 Community Health Services Director, Appalachian District Health Department
2013 – 2015 Innovative Approaches Coordinator, Appalachian District Health Department
2012 – 2013 CCR&R Director, Ashe County Partnership for Children
2011 – 2012 Healthy Youth Policy Coordinator, Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CDC), Appalachian District Health Department
Professional Memberships
2015 – present Member, North Carolina Public Health Association
2018 – present Member, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Research
Current Research Support
P30 CA012197 (Pasche)
02/01/97 – 01/31/22
NIH/NCI
Cancer Center Support Grant: Cancer Prevention and Control Program
The goal of this project is to focus on scientific discovery across the cancer continuum—from primary prevention to survivorship—that translates into clinical, community, and policy strategies to improve cancer outcomes.
Role: Project Manager
Completed Research Support
P30 CA012197 (Pasche)
02/01/97 – 01/31/21
NIH/NCI
Cancer Center Support Grant to Develop Tobacco Cessation Treatment Capacity and Infrastructure for Cancer Patients (Administrative Supplement)
The goal of this supplement project is to expand smoking cessation services at the WFBCCC.
Role: Project Manager
U54 DA031659 (Donny/Hatsukami)
09/15/11 – 02/28/22
NIH/NIDA
Evaluating New Nicotine Standards for Cigarettes
The overarching goal of this center grant is to determine the impact of reduced nicotine cigarettes on smoking, abstinence, use of non-combusted tobacco products, and toxicant exposure; the subjective effects of very low nicotine content cigarettes and products that may function as alternatives to smoking; and the impact of individual-level variables that may moderate these effects.
Role: Project Manager