Network to Enhance Tobacco Control Activities

Columbia University: Harlem Health Promotion Center

University of Alabama at Birmingham: Center for Health Promotion

University of Illinois at Chicago: Illinois Prevention Research Center (Coordinating center)

University of Michigan: Prevention Researcher Center of Michigan

University of New Mexico: Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

University of Oklahoma: Native American Prevention Research Center

University of South Carolina: Prevention Research Center

University of South Florida: Center for Community-Based Prevention Marketing

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston: University of Texas Prevention Research Center

University of Washington: Health Promotion Research Center

West Virginia University: Prevention Research Center

Topics:
Tobacco Prevention & Control

Researchers from 12 Prevention Research Centers are networking with state and community partners on a 3-year project to share expertise and research on tobacco control. The goal is to provide state health departments leading-edge strategies for controlling tobacco use among various populations. Colleagues collaborate with each other and with state and community researchers, advocates, and agencies. The network’s activities include enhancing surveillance and evaluation methods, distributing guidelines for youth smoking prevention programs, offering tobacco control courses at schools of public health, creating an electronic network to enhance communication among partners, and launching a Web site to provide information to a large audience of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. Network members are also conducting collaborative research projects, exploring ways to interact most effectively with state and local health policy and practice communities, and expanding the tobacco research network to include other universities.

 

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