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Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP
Professor
School of Pharmacy
530 Parnassus Avenue, #365
San Francisco, CA 94143
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Education and Training
University of California, San Francisco, American Legacy Foundation Fellow
University of California, Berkeley, PhD
Macalester College,St. Paul, MN, BA
Harvard University,Cambridge, MA, MPP
University of California,San Francisco, CA 08/2021 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
Overview
Dr. Apollonio is Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research considers the activities of industries implicated in the spread of non-communicable diseases, including opioids, tobacco, and cannabis. Her current work includes efforts to:
-- Understand and address the role of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid crisis
-- Improve the regulation of novel cannabis products, with a focus on reducing poisonings among children
-- Expand access to tobacco cessation services for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco
-- Expand access to tobacco cessation services for residents of the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Foothills (in partnership with the UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center)
-- Increase access to medications in regions with limited access to health care providers
Her funding record includes past and current awards at the national level from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Cancer Institute, and US Food & Drug Administration Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science; at the state level from the California Breast Cancer Research Program, California Department of Cannabis Control, California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, and University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee; and the institutional level from the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Her work has been published in journals across multiple disciplines, including law, medicine, pharmacy, political science, public health, and public policy. She has served as an instructor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy since 2004 and has earned multiple teaching awards. Between 2020 and 2025, she mentored 77 PharmD students whose work in small groups resulted in 27 peer-reviewed publications.
-- Understand and address the role of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid crisis
-- Improve the regulation of novel cannabis products, with a focus on reducing poisonings among children
-- Expand access to tobacco cessation services for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco
-- Expand access to tobacco cessation services for residents of the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Foothills (in partnership with the UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center)
-- Increase access to medications in regions with limited access to health care providers
Her funding record includes past and current awards at the national level from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Cancer Institute, and US Food & Drug Administration Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science; at the state level from the California Breast Cancer Research Program, California Department of Cannabis Control, California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, and University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee; and the institutional level from the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Her work has been published in journals across multiple disciplines, including law, medicine, pharmacy, political science, public health, and public policy. She has served as an instructor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy since 2004 and has earned multiple teaching awards. Between 2020 and 2025, she mentored 77 PharmD students whose work in small groups resulted in 27 peer-reviewed publications.