Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN

Marcia A. Dake Professor and Director of BREATHE

Ellen J. Hahn is a Professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Public Health at UK and Director of BREATHE including the Tobacco Policy Division, the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy (KCSP), and the Radon Policy Division. She also serves as Director of UK-CARES (Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences). She holds the Marcia A. Dake Endowed Professorship in the College of Nursing. Dr. Hahn is the Director for the Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Core of the NIOSH-funded Central Appalachian Regional Education and Research Center.  She is also a Faculty Associate at UK’s NCI-designated Markey Cancer Center, and a member of the the Cancer Prevention and Control Program. Dr. Hahn received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University. She earned a Master of Arts in Health Education from The Ohio State University and a Master of Science in community health nursing from Indiana University. In 1992, she completed a PhD in health policy/health of the community with a minor in substance abuse and the family at Indiana University School of Nursing. Through KCSP, Dr. Hahn and her colleagues have assisted many of Kentucky’s over 50 communities to go smoke-free. Hahn and colleagues have published multiple smoke-free workplace policy outcome studies showing positive health effects and no harm to business. In 2011, Dr. Hahn was named a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Hahn was named the 2012 UK Provost’s Public Scholar, and has served as an Ambassador for Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR). In 2021, she received the Faye Glenn Abdellah Leadership Award from FNINR.

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