Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science on Youth and Young Adults

描述（由申请人提供）：“青少年和年轻人监管科学烟草中心”的总体目标是制定一个“研究和培训”的综合计划，为监管科学家提供科学证据和职业道路，以支持FDA关于烟草制品的监管机构。青年和青壮年是最易受烟草使用伤害的年龄组，因为几乎所有的尼古丁开始和首次成瘾都发生在26岁之前。我们的研究和培训将侧重于青少年和青壮年烟草使用的流行病学（特别是替代性、新型和新兴烟草制品），烟草制品如何向这一人群营销，营销对青少年和青壮年烟草使用的影响，以及可以实施哪些电子程序来教育这一人群中的青壮年。该中心的具体目标如下：1 .在青少年和年轻成人中开展与发育相适应的纵向监测研究，以更多地了解他们使用的烟草制品的多样性及其发病和发展的病因，重点关注烟草营销行为可能对其烟草使用产生的潜在影响；2.制定电子通信规划，有效地教育青年人了解与烟草使用有关的风险和烟草制品成分；3. 组织一项利用多方法、在线和独立电视技术的烟草监管科学培训和教育计划，用于培训研究人员和卫生专业人员，包括流行病学、青年发展、市场营销和监测方法；4. 为发展及试验基金提供机会，以增加本港院校的研究人员因应新出现的研究问题及/或不断变化的规管环境的潜力；5. 为中心研究人员提供统计和营销数据支持，以确保项目、质量控制、及时数据共享的一致性，并能够发布指导FDA监管活动的结果；和6。创造一个促进协作和指导、高质量研究、卓越培训和切实成果的中心环境，以指导青少年开展烟草监管科学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the "Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science on Youth and Young Adults" is to develop an integrated program of "research and training" to provide scientific evidence, and a career path for regulatory scientists to support FDA's regulatory authority concerning tobacco products. Youth and young adults are the most vulnerable age group for tobacco use, as virtually all onset and first addiction to nicotine occur prior to age 26. Our research and training will focus on the epidemiology of tobacco use among youth and young adults (particularly alternative, new, and emerging tobacco products), how tobacco products are marketed to this population, the effect of marketing on youth and young adult tobacco use, and what electronic programs can be implemented to educate young adults in this population. The Specific Aims for the Center are as follows: I. To conduct developmentally-appropriate, longitudinal surveillance research among youth and young adults, to understand more about the diversity of tobacco products that they use, and the etiology of their onset and progression, focusing on the potential impact that tobacco marketing practices may have on their tobacco use; 2.To develop a program of electronic communications that will be effective in educating young adults about risks associated with tobacco use and constituents of tobacco products; 3. To organize a training and education program in tobacco regulatory science that utilizes multi-method, online and ITV technologies, that will be used to train researchers and health professionals in regulatory science including epidemiology, youth development, marketing, and surveillance methods; 4. To provide opportunities for developmental and pilot funding to increase the potential for researchers at our institutions to respond to emerging research questions and/or a changing regulatory environment; 5. To provide statistical and marketing data support to Center researchers, so that there is consistency across projects, quality control, timely data sharing, and the ability to publish resuls that can guide FDA's regulatory activities; and 6. To create a Center environment that promotes collaboration and mentoring, high quality research, excellence in training, and tangible outcomes to guide tobacco regulatory science with young people. RELEVANCE: The Tobacco Control Act gave the FDA new authority to regulate the marketing of tobacco products. The central focus of our Center is on research and training in tobacco regulatory science, relevant to FDA's priority questions, focusing on diverse youth and young adults, the potential impact that tobacco marketing practices have on these age groups, and methods to communicate risks.