Executive Director of the Global Health Institute – China Tobacco Control Partnership
Pamela Redmon brings a wealth of expertise to her role in the areas of national and international tobacco control. She is currently the Executive Director of the Global Health Institute – China Tobacco Control Partnership (GHI-CTP) at Emory University. The GHI-CTP was established in 2008 to reduce the health, social, environmental, and economic burden of tobacco use in China. The program currently funds 17 city government organizations to establish comprehensive and sustainable tobacco control programs in their cities and 5 universities to create research and tobacco control resource centers. The GHI-CTP also collaborates and partners with other international and in-country partners on various tobacco control initiatives in China.
Prior to leading GHI-CTP’s efforts, Pamela was the Executive Director of the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC). She successfully led the TTAC to a credible and sustainable position as the recognized training and technical assistance provider for the national tobacco control movement. During her tenure at TTAC, Pamela also secured seed funding to establish a partner organization called the Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center (DTTAC) to provide training and technical services in the area of diabetes. Prior to leading TTAC, she served as TTAC’s Director of Evaluation and Information Services.
Pamela holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Clemson University. Her nursing experiences include staff nurse in critical and coronary care units and as a cardiac rehabilitation specialist. She also served as clinical nurse manager for NIH-funded cardiology and electrophysiology research prior to securing a Master in Public Health (MPH) degree from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.