Xue to receive funding for project aimed at youth tobacco use prevention

Hong Xue, Associate Professor, Health Administration and Policy, received funding for the project: “Innovating and Implementing Youth Tobacco Prevention in Virginia.”

Xue will leverage the forefront of technological innovation, utilizing generative artificial intelligence (AI) and state-of-the-art immersive technologies, integrating them with novel just-in-time adaptive intervention strategies, to tackle the pressing public health issue of electronic cigarette/tobacco use among the youth in Virginia.

Xue will receive $450,000 from Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth for this research. Funding will begin in July 2024 and will end in late June 2027.

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