Coordinating Center for the Advancement of Tobacco Control Research and Practice

描述（申请人提供）：州和社区烟草控制政策和媒体研究倡议协调中心（CC）的主要目标是为国家癌症研究所（NCI）提供支持及其资助的项目，因为它们塑造了国家优先事项，填补了烟草控制证据和实践基础的重要空白，并最终减轻了美国烟草的健康和经济负担和其他地方。CC将通过促进研究项目（RP），NCI和更广泛的公共卫生界之间的富有成效的合作和沟通来实现这一目标。协调委员会将提供全面的项目协调;促进与NCI和各个研究中心的合作，以支持资助的RP，并确定和实施互补的跨研究中心RP;提供最先进的科学分析、统计和数据管理支持;利用有助于转化研究结果的方法和机制，并加快新烟草控制战略的实施;并实施措施和方法，以评估单个RP和整个倡议的成功。为鼓励交流与合作，协调委员会将为所有会议提供后勤支助，并开发一个项目门户网站。项目门户网站将提供一个安全、集中的协作空间，以存储该计划的历史和知识，并将小组的人际互动和联系结合起来。该门户网站还将用于传播有关该倡议的信息、个人报告、研究结果、新闻和新闻稿以及公开数据和出版物。CC将通过将每个RP与具有符合RP目标的烟草控制专业知识的团队配对，促进通用方法和措施的使用，并为NCI和各个地点提供独特的数据资源，来促进富有成效的研究合作。此外，委员会将召集一个烟草控制“思想和实践领袖”工作组，他们将代表更广泛的烟草控制社区的观点，包括州烟草控制计划，倡导组织和少数民族网络。该工作组将从这一举措一开始就参与，以帮助确保所开展的研究满足从业人员的需求，填补研究中最重要的空白。该小组还可协助翻译调查结果并向不同受众传播。CC将使用传统的传播格式和渠道，例如通过邮件和电子邮件以及社交媒体（例如，Twitter、Facebook），以确保广泛传播调查结果，从而迅速影响烟草控制实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the Coordinating Center (CC) for the State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Media Research initiative is to provide support to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its funded projects as they shape national priorities and fill important gaps in the evidence and practice base of tobacco control and ultimately reduce the health and economic burden of tobacco in the United States and elsewhere. The CC will accomplish this goal by fostering productive collaboration and communication among the research projects (RPs), NCI, and the broader public health community. The CC will provide comprehensive project coordination; facilitate collaborations with NCI and the individual sites to support funded RPs and identify and implement complementary cross-site RPs; offer state-of-the-science analytic, statistical, and data management support; utilize methods and mechanisms that will facilitate the translation of study findings and accelerate the implementation of new tobacco control strategies; and implement measures and methods to evaluate the success of individual RPs and the initiative as a whole. To encourage communication and collaboration, the CC will provide logistical support for all meetings and develop a project Web portal. The project Web portal will provide a secure, centralized collaboration space to store the initiative's history and knowledge and unite the human interactions and connections of the group. The Web portal will also be used to disseminate information about the initiative, individual RPs, research findings, news and press releases, and publicly available data and publications. The CC will foster productive research collaboration by pairing each RP with teams that have tobacco control expertise that aligns with the aims of the RPs, facilitating the use of common methods and measures, and making unique data resources available to NCI and individual sites. In addition, the CC will convene a working group of "thought and practice leaders" in tobacco control who will represent the perspective of the broader tobacco control communities, including state tobacco control programs, advocacy organizations, and minority networks. This working group will participate from the outset of this initiative to help ensure that the research conducted meets the needs of practitioners and fills the most important gaps in research. This group can also assist with the translation and dissemination of findings to diverse audiences. The CC will use traditional dissemination formats and channels, such as newsletters disseminated through mail and e-mail, and social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) to ensure broad dissemination of findings with the goal of quickly influencing tobacco control practice.