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Fellowship Program
The center offers a broad interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program to prepare individuals to become academic leaders in tobacco control.
Our Faculty
The Center's 68 faculty are spread across 15 departments and four schools at UCSF.
Dorie Apollonio, PhD
Fellowship Co-Director Highlights Industry Documents Research: "Corporate Strategy, National Tragedy"

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education serves as a focal point for a broad range of research, education, and public service activities for over 70 faculty in 15 departments and all four schools at UCSF.

It is part of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute and its membership is congruent with the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Tobacco Control Program. The Center is also a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Tobacco Control.

Our vision: A tobacco free world, saving one billion lives this century

Our mission:  

  • We perform cutting edge research that is critical for policies and programs to end the tobacco epidemic.  
  • We are the leading scientific voice speaking against those who seek to enrich themselves and undermine science at the expense of human lives.  
  • We support the next generation of tobacco research leaders, amplify the voices of diverse communities, and inspire policymakers to take bold action.
  • We carry out our work through rigorous and relevant research that reaches policymakers and the public.

Programs

Learn about our collaborations and resources.

 

From Our Blog

Several people have asked us to collect all the public comments that we have submitted to the FDA.  We have also added comments submitted to other agencies on tobacco issues.  We will update this posting as new comments are submitted.  This post is current as of July 26, 2024.

Department of Justice’s proposed transfer of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act