International

The impact the tobacco industry is having outside the U.S. on globalizing the tobacco epidemic and strategies to mitigate this impact.
  • Tobacco Control Research Mentorship Program

    This four year program aims to recruit one-year fellows to conduct policy relevant research in Guatemala. During the program, fellows design, implement and disseminate their tobacco control projects. This program aims to analyze the impact a mentorship program can have in increasing the research capacity in Guatemala.

    Joaquin Barnoya, MD MPH
    Assistant Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
  • Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents

    The tobacco industry is like an intelligent and aggressive ever-evolving pathogen that accounts for one-third of all cancer and nearly two-thirds of heart disease among people under 55.  To reduce this burden of disease requires understanding how the tobacco industry maintains a social and policy environment favorable to smoking. To understand a pathogen, one might study its genetic code. To understand the tobacco industry, we have a written record of its research and decision making process in the form of over 62 million pages of previously secret tobacco industry documents now available at the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. This research uses this unique resource to understand how the tobacco industry works to shape the environment, and what public health authorities and advocates can do to anticipate and counter the tobacco industry’s adaptive strategies (legal, political, scientific, propagandistic) to frustrate and subvert smoking prevention and cessation programs.

    Stanton Glantz, PhD
    Professor of Medicine
  • The Tobacco Problem: Public Health Implications of Contested Frames

    "Extreme makeover"? Or more industry deception? This project explores the tobacco industry’s ‘corporate social responsibility’ efforts and their implications for public health and tobacco control.  

    Ruth Malone, PhD RN
    Professor and Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • Web Site for Smoking Cessation Trials

    This project includes a web-based smoking cessation resource for Spanish- and English-speaking smokers as well as a complementary project focused on LGBT smokers.  It also evaluates the feasibility of conducting randomized trials over the internet.  

    Ricardo Munoz, PhD
    Professor In Residence
  • Latino Health Care with an Emphasis on Cancer Prevention

    Dr. Perez-Stable's research is focused on Latino health care with an emphasis on cancer prevention. 

    Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD
    Professor of Medicine
  • Air Pollution and Respiratory Problems in Children

    Dr. Hammond is conducting several projects on determinants of the effects of air pollution on asthma and other respiratory problems in children. Her Fresno Asthmatic Children's Environmental Study (FACES) is a longitudinal cohort study. This study will determine if children with asthma who have adverse responses to short-term, daily increase in concentration of ambient air pollutants and bioaerosols are more likely to have increased long-term asthma morbidity and decreased lung function growth. Another study examines the respiratory effects of early life exposure to fine particles and other indoor air pollutants in the community of San Lorenzo, Guatemala.

    Katharine Hammond, PhD
    Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley