Annual Tobacco and Other Industry Documents Workshop

October 8th 2024

9am-12:15pm
Zoom webinar

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The University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Research and Education (CTCRE), an interdisciplinary research community, announces its Annual Tobacco and Other Industry Documents Workshop will take place on October 8th from 9am-12:15pm PT. This event will offer an in-depth exploration of UCSF’s Industry Documents Library, providing participants with skills to conduct thorough research. Presenters will highlight how lessons learned from tobacco industry documents also apply to chemical, food, drug and opiate industries. Presenters will also discuss the how the new JUUL documents collection can be used for teaching, research, and public health advocacy.

Upon completion, participants will be able to effectively leverage this database to support advocacy efforts against the tobacco and other industrial pandemics.

Presentations:

  • "Putting corporate industry's words to work for you," Naphtali Offen, (Retired), CTCRE Research Associate
  • "Menthol: More than a Characterizing Flavor," Stan Glantz, PhD (Retired), Founding Director, UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
  • "The Wizards Behind the Curtain: Countering the Tobacco Industry's Racist Exploitation of African Americans,"  Carol McGruder, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council,
  • "The case against Juul Labs for marketing to children: Evidence from documents shared at trial," Kurt M. Ribisl, PhD, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health,
  • "Searching the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and Other Industry Documents Collections," Kate Tasker, MLIS, CA, Director of the UCSF Industry Documents Library, Rachel Taketa, MLIS, IDL Processing and Reference Archivist, UCSF Industry Documents Library and Emma James, IDL Project Archivist.

Register today to ensure your opportunity to learn from and connect with top document researchers and other advocates.

Please contact [email protected] for questions.