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Education / Training: Post Doctoral
Fellowship
We offer diverse educational and research opportunities including postdoctoral fellowships, graduate research positions, advocacy training, and individualized documents training. Our work spans policy and historical research, economics, and science.

 

Fellowship positions are now available in the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco. 

 

Download an informational brochure here.

 

The purpose of the fellowship is to attract individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to develop a new generation of academic leaders in tobacco control. Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control interventions. 

  

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. health policy, Fellows have come from an array of disciplines, including medicine, public health, nursing, economics, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology. 

 

We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics.

 

Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale.  Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at our website, tobacco.ucsf.edu.

 

Applications are due January 27, 2010 for fellowships beginning July 1, 2010.

 

Please direct requests for information and applications to:

 

Fellowship Assistant

Phone: 415-476-0140

Fax: 415-514-9345

Tobacco.Fellowship@ucsf.edu

 

 



Upcoming Seminars
Making a Career in Tobacco Control: Defining Important Academic Research with Potentially High Polic
Stan Glantz
PhD
Date: 02/10/2010
Time: 01:00 PM
Place: CTCRE Conf. Rm., Kalmanovitz Ste. 366
Stan Glantz will discuss how to define important academic research with potentially high policy impact

Tobacco Policy Research Group (TRPG)
Phyra McCandless, J.D. and Kim Nguyen, SciD
CTCRE
Date: 02/17/2010
Time: 12:00 AM
Place: CTCRE Conf. Rm., Kalmanovitz Ste. 366
Phyra will present Quid Pro Quo: Tobacco Companies and the Black Press. Kim will present: The effect of clean indoor air ordinances on tobacco use among pregnant women.

Micronite and Mesothelioma
Ray Goldstein
Paralegal
Date: 02/18/2010
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: CTCRE Conf. Rm., Kalmanovitz Ste. 366
Ray Goldstein will discuss Micronite and Mesothelioma: The story of the Kent cigarette and its asbestos filter-tip.

Developments with Regard to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Articles 12 and 14 Guideline
Nick Schneider
MD
Date: 03/01/2010
Time: 12:00 PM
Place: CTCRE Conf. Rm., Kalmanovitz Ste. 366
Nick Schneider, MD, discusses the development of international guidelines under the FCTC Article 12 (education, communication, training and public awareness) and the Article 14 Working Group (cessatio

Making a Career in Tobacco Control: Communicating Your Work to Audiences beyond Specialized Research
Stan Glantz
PhD
Date: 03/11/2010
Time: 12:30 PM
Place: CTCRE Conf. Rm., Kalmanovitz Ste. 366
Stan Glantz will instruction on communicating one's work to audiences beyond specialized researchers, e.g. to the media, the public and policy makers

Tobacco Policy Research Group (TPRG)
Eric Crosbie and Nan Jiang
TBD
Date: 03/17/2010
Time: 12:00 AM
Place: CTCRE Conf. Rm., Kalmanovitz Ste. 366
Eric Crosbie and Nan Jiang will present their works in progress.
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