Cliff Douglas

• Biography: Cliff Douglas is a teacher, attorney and international public health advocate. He is Executive Director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network and teaches tobacco policy and law at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He served as Special Counsel for Congressman Martin T. Meehan and staffed the Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health. His 111-page "prosecution memo" to the U.S. Attorney General led the Justice Department to conduct a four-year criminal investigation of the tobacco industry. His career in the tobacco wars is chronicled in Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry (New York: Random House, 2000), by investigative journalist Dan Zegart, which tells the story of Cliff's recruitment of a scientist code-named Deep Cough, the first major tobacco company whistleblower, who helped Cliff expose cigarette manufacturers' secret manipulation of nicotine to addict millions of unsuspecting consumers in an award-winning ABC News program exposé produced by investigative reporter extraordinaire Walt Bogdanich (now with the New York Times). Cliff served on the Obama campaign's national Health Policy Committee and as a voter protection lawyer during the election.

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