Postdoctoral training in tobacco control

 描述(由申请人提供)：我们有一个总体目标：培养合格的博士后研究员，他们将在基于研究的烟草控制、公共卫生、政策和临床实践的开发、实施、传播和应用方面发挥领导作用。具体地说，我们建议继续支持为期两年的博士后奖学金，该奖学金将吸引具有来自医学、生物、社会、行为和政策科学等各种背景的跨学科研究的坚定承诺的个人，以帮助培养烟草控制领域的下一代科学领袖。烟草仍然是美国头号可预防的死亡原因，占所有癌症死亡人数的35%。由于需要科学来为食品和药物管理局采取的行动提供信息，以管制烟草产品，应对电子烟等新烟草产品的迅速出现，指导以预防疾病为重点的保健改革的实施，并影响在世界卫生组织主持下谈判达成的第一个公共卫生条约--《烟草控制框架公约》的执行，对这类专家的需求继续增加。我们的计划体现了创新的癌症预防培训，通过积极参与多个学科并将科学转化为政策和临床实践，为年轻科学家提供进行和交流跨学科研究的工具。我们提供烟草科学、卫生政策、生物统计学、烟草政策、成瘾和烟草相关疾病的预防和治疗方面的跨学科课程，并结合来自不同学科的初级和二级导师指导的研究。研究员完成一门课程，在这门课程中，他们准备并向外部资助机构提交第三年奖学金的赠款建议。研究导师包括来自加州大学旧金山分校所有四所学校(医学、护理、药学和牙科)的33名拥有积极研究项目的教职员工。Mentors的研究项目涵盖烟草控制政策、作为癌症和其他疾病媒介的烟草行业、烟草营销、烟草成瘾及其预防和治疗、吸烟和二手烟暴露对健康的影响、无烟和新兴烟草产品以及戒烟。加州大学旧金山分校烟草控制研究和教育中心研究员的背景和兴趣广泛，提供了一个强大的跨学科环境，创造了不断向其他学科的同事学习的机会。每个研究员的个人发展计划是由研究员制定的，并由导师和奖学金咨询委员会共同审查。委员会还从竞争激烈的国家人才库中挑选研究员：在本供资期间，我们收到了25个职位的159份申请。我们有出色的成功记录：在目前的供资期间，我们的研究员在69种不同的同行评议期刊上发表了120篇论文。在完成培训的29名博士后研究员中，26人(90%)从事活跃的科学事业，16人(55%)是学术人员。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We have one overarching goal: Train postdoctoral fellows who will be qualified and well-positioned to lead in the development, implementation, dissemination, and application of research-based tobacco control, public health, policy, and clinical practice. Specifically, we propose 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. Tobacco remains the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. and it is responsible for 35% of all cancer deaths. The need for such experts continues to grow as science is needed to inform actions taken by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products, to address the rapid emergence of new tobacco products like electronic cigarettes, to guide the implementation of health care reform with an emphasis on disease prevention, and to influence the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first public health treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Our program embodies the innovative cancer prevention training needed to give young scientists the tools to conduct and communicate transdisciplinary research by active involvement in multiple disciplines and translation of science to policy and clinical practice. We provide transdisciplinary coursework in tobacco science, health policy, biostatistics, tobacco policy, prevention and treatment of addiction and tobacco-related disease, combined with research directed by primary and secondary mentors from different disciplines. Fellows complete a course where they prepare and submit grant proposals to external funding agencies for their third year of fellowship. Research mentors include 33 faculty with active research programs from all four schools at UCSF (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry). Mentors' research programs span tobacco control policy, the tobacco industry as a vector for cancer and other diseases, tobacco marketing, tobacco addiction and its prevention and treatment, health effects of smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, smokeless and emerging tobacco products, and smoking cessation. The wide 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 colleagues working in other disciplines. Each fellow's individual development plan is created by the fellow, and reviewed by both mentors and the Fellowship Advisory Committee. The Committee also selects fellows from a competitive national pool: in the current funding period we had 159 applications for 25 positions. We have an outstanding track record of success: during the current funding period our fellows produced 120 papers in 69 different peer reviewed journals. Of the 29 postdoctoral fellows who have completed training, 26 (90%) have active scientific careers and 16 (55%) of graduates are academic faculty.