Chair of the Network

Richard Clayton, Ph.D.
Good Samaritan Foundation Chair of Health Behavior,
College of Public Health
Director, Center for Prevention Research
University of Kentucky
121 Washington Ave., Ste 109B
Lexington, KY 40536-0003
Phone: 859-257-5588
Fax: 859-257-5592
Email: clayton@uky.edu

Richard R. Clayton is the Good Samaritan Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Education and Health Behavior in the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky (Assistant Professor, 1970-73; Associate Professor 1976-79; Professor, 1979-2000) prior to joining the faculty in public health. He has received the Great Teacher Award from the UK Alumni Association as well as been a recipient of the University Research Professor award.  He is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Public Health and an avid researcher (in the top 5% of all investigators at NIH in the past 25 years in terms of grant money).  He has also been the Director of the Center for Prevention Research since 1987.  Richard is one of the founders of the Society for Prevention Research, a recipient of the Presidential Award from the society, and is also a part of the Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation as well as involved with the Center for Drug and Alcohol Research.  Clayton is the Chair of the Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence (TERN) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1996-2009).  He is also Chair of the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) funded by The American Legacy Foundation and the National Cancer Institute (2005-2009). He has been the chair of two departments, acting chair on two occasions in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health in the College of Medicine and founding chair of the Department of Health Behavior in the College of Public Health.  Richard is a co-developer of a smoking cessation program that is offered in every health department in the state and through the Kentucky Cancer Program.  Since June of 1985, Thomas Cooper and Richard Clayton have trained over 1,000 facilitators to deliver the Cooper/Clayton Method to Stop Smoking that is offered throughout Kentucky and in other states as well.  He is very interested and involved in our state and working with its citizens on the number one preventable public health problem.  He has published 8 books and well over 100 articles and chapters in books. He has been involved in transdisciplinary research throughout his career and has a sense of most of the disciplines represented on the University of Kentucky campus.