Dr. Jonathan Winickoff is a practicing pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has training and experience in health services research, medical ethics, neurobiology, statistics, and behavioral theory. He has received numerous awards including the Health and Human Services Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service for "protecting the health of the United States public" and the 2008 Jarvik-Russell Young Investigator of the Year award from Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

He currently chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics Tobacco Consortium and has over 35 peer-reviewed publications, 15 specifically about tobacco control in child healthcare settings. Two of these studies were the first to evaluate the delivery of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies to parents in the pediatric setting. He is the Harvard site principal investigator for the Julius Richmond Center of Excellence, addressing the secondhand smoke exposure of children.

He has drafted key tobacco control policy for the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. He has served as a scientific advisor to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program and the United States Surgeon General through the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. The program he developed out of his research known as CEASE, the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, is being used in North Carolina and Massachusetts, and is available nationally at ceasetobacco.org.