Dr. Melina Samar Magsumbol is Associate Director, Research, Policy Advocacy and Communication at Vital Strategies. She is an applied medical anthropologist and public health medicine specialist with over 20 years of international experience across interdisciplinary public health research, socio-behavioural science, and environmental epidemiology. 

At Vital Strategies, she works in social and behaviour change and policy research across the tobacco control and overdose prevention portfolio, and plays a central role in Canary, an AI-powered monitoring initiative that tracks online promotion of tobacco, alcohol, and other harmful products to inform policy and enforcement.

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