Postdoctoral training in tobacco control

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目的是继续支持为期两年的博士后奖学金，吸引来自医学，生物学，社会，行为和政策科学等各种背景的坚定致力于跨学科研究的个人，以帮助培养下一代烟草控制科学领导者。随着国会最近立法授权美国食品和药物管理局监管烟草产品，卫生保健改革的通过，其重点是疾病预防和世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约的实施，烟草控制专家的需求继续增长。我们的计划是创新的癌症预防培训的象征，为年轻科学家提供在跨学科协作环境中进行研究的工具，并成为未来催化多学科整合和将科学转化为政策和临床实践的领导者。我们有一个明确的目标：培养博士后研究员，他们将有资格并有能力成为未来制定和实施基于研究的烟草控制政策和干预措施的领导者。这一目标是通过与卫生政策，生物统计学，烟草控制政策和烟草相关成瘾和疾病的预防和治疗相结合的跨学科课程与来自不同学科的初级和中级导师指导的研究相结合来实现的。课程构成了由来自不同学科的两位导师指导的密集研究计划的基础。研究员还学习如何准备，提交和审查赠款建议，并提交建议，他们的奖学金资助的第三年外部资助机构。研究导师包括30名教师，他们来自UCSF的所有四所学校（医学，护理，药学和牙科）。导师的研究兴趣包括烟草控制政策的制定和评估，烟草业作为癌症和其他疾病的载体，烟草业的营销策略，烟草成瘾及其预防和治疗，吸烟和二手烟暴露的健康影响，无烟烟草，以及个人和社区戒烟。加州大学旧金山分校烟草控制研究和教育中心的研究员背景和兴趣的多样性提供了一个强大的跨学科环境，创造了不断学习和欣赏其他学科同事所做工作的机会。每个研究员的计划是由研究员，他或她的导师，和奖学金咨询委员会，监测他或她的进展单独开发。委员会还从竞争激烈的人才库中挑选研究员：2010年，有40人申请4个名额。在R25 T的前4年，我们的研究员在48种不同的同行评审期刊上发表了77篇论文。该培训计划积极支持我们的研究员的职业发展和安置; 8名助理教授，3名非政府卫生组织，1名健康研究咨询公司和1名全职母亲的一个小孩子与无偿学术联系。我们使用R25 T机制，而不是基于学科的T32，因为我们的计划强调通过独特的个性化教学和指导研究计划进行跨学科培训和交流。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposal is to continue support of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship that will attract individuals with a strong commitment to transdisciplinary research from a wide variety of backgrounds from medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to help build the next generation of scientific leaders in tobacco control. The need for tobacco control experts continues to grow with Congress' recent legislation granting the US Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products, passage of health care reform, with its emphasis on disease prevention and the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world's first public health treaty. Our program is emblematic of the innovative cancer prevention training needed to give young scientists the tools to conduct research in collaborative transdisciplinary settings and to be future leaders in catalyzing the integration of multiple disciplines and translation of science to policy and clinical practice. We have one specific aim: Train postdoctoral fellows who will be qualified and well-positioned to become leaders in the future development and implementation of research-based tobacco control policy and interventions. This aim is met through a combination of transdisciplinary coursework related to health policy, biostatistics, tobacco control policy and prevention and treatment of tobacco-related addiction and disease combined with research directed by a primary and secondary mentor from different disciplines. The coursework forms the foundation for an intensive research program directed by two mentors from different disciplines. Fellows also learn how to prepare, submit, and review grant proposals and submit proposals to external funding agencies for their third year of fellowship funding. Research mentors include 30 faculty members with active research programs from all four schools at UCSF (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry). Mentors' research interests include tobacco control policy development and evaluation, the tobacco industry as a vector for cancer and other diseases, tobacco industry marketing strategies, tobacco addiction and its prevention and treatment, health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, smokeless tobacco, and individual- and community-based smoking cessation. The great variety in backgrounds and interests of fellows housed in the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education provides a strong transdisciplinary environment that creates continuous opportunities to learn from and appreciate the work done by colleagues working in other disciplines. Each fellow's program is individually developed by the fellow, his or her mentors, and the Fellowship Advisory Committee that monitors his or her progress. The Committee also selects fellows from a very competitive pool: In 2010 there were 40 applications for 4 slots. During the first 4 years of this R25T our fellows have produced 77 papers in 48 different peer reviewed journals. The training program actively supports the career development and placement of our fellows; 8 assistant professors, 3 with nongovernmental health organizations, 1 with a health research consulting firm and 1 full time mother of a small child with an unpaid academic affiliation. We use the R25T mechanism rather than a discipline-based T32 because our program emphasizes transdisciplinary training and communication through unique individually tailored programs of didactics and mentored research.