Bio

Bob Gordon, MPH, has devoted his professional life to tobacco control policy. He serves as Project Director for the California LGBT Tobacco Education Partnership and managed and co-facilitated The Last Drag, the free stop-smoking program for LGBT and HIV positive residents in San Francisco. As Co-Chair of the San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition, Bob has worked to end the sale of menthol and flavored tobacco through legislative policies. He helped organize San Francisco’s Tobacco 21 ordinance and was key in the passage of the first tobacco-free pharmacy ordinance in the United States. Bob has been honored with a number of awards for his work, including American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s Capitol Dome Award, the Community-Based Leadership Award from the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs Section of the American Public Health Association and the Community Activist Award from the American Legacy Foundation (now Truth Initiative).