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UCSF's Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education acts as a focal point for tobacco research, education, cessation, and training at the University of California.  It encompasses 46 faculty members, their students, fellows, and staff, whose work extends from basic studies of nicotine pharmacology through the health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke to action-oriented policy interventions. 


The Center is accepting fellowship applications. For application information, click here.

FEATURED STUDY:
Annual Symposium

It's About a Billion Lives

Reining in Big Tobacco: The View from the World Health Organization
Douglas Bettcher, BSc, MD, MPH, PhD
Director, World Health Organization, Tobacco Free Initiative
 
No Smoker Left Behind: The Tobacco Industry Contribution to Geriatric Science 
Janine Cataldo, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Physiological Nursing
 
Reaching Populations in Need: Treating Tobacco Dependence Among the Understudied & Underserved
Norval Hickman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Making It Personal: Individualizing Smoking Cessation Treatment
Neal L. Benowitz MD
Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
 
Tobacco Industry Influence on Food Flavor Research: Can We Trust the Science?
Elena O. Lingas, DrPH, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Closing Remarks
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH
Chancellor
 
Friday, February 12, 2010, 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM

 No registration required


505 Parnassus Ave., University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143
Health Sciences West, Room HSW 301

 

TOBACCO CONTROL POLICY RESEARCH
Effective public policies are the best way to reduce tobacco’s toll
FAMRI BLAND LANE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ON SHS

Research on secondhand smoke and health effects.  http://www.imenet.net/UCSFQuest/

SMOKING CESSATION LEADERSHIP CENTER
30 Seconds to save a life.
COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER TOBACCO PROGRAM
Cancer research collaborative.
TOBACCO CONTROL ARCHIVE:
A library of tobacco control resources.
LEGACY TOBACCO DOCUMENTS LIBRARY
Over 50 million pages of secret internal American tobacco industry documents
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO DOCUMENTS ARCHIVE
Secret internal documents from British American Tobacco
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