May 3, 2005, Retreat

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Scholarship, Training, and Education Programfor
Tobacco Use Prevention (STEP UP)

• In 2001, ASPH and the American Legacy Foundation
  formed STEP UP
• 5-year project with an overall objective of
  increasing the visibility of tobacco control
  topics in graduate public health educational
  settings
• 3 goals
• to increase number of graduate students and
  faculty in public health who specialize in
  tobacco studies and research
• to better integrate tobacco-related issues into
  graduate public health education and
• to build a stronger infrastructure for
  tobacco-related education in schools of public
  health.

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STEP UP Activities

• ASPH/Legacy Review Committee
• Developing RFAs for eventual award of 1.8
  million
• Reviewing grant applications, and
• Reviewing quarterly progress reports
• ASPH Tobacco Use Prevention Council, charged with
  advising deans on tobacco use prevention and
  control, including curriculum issues and research

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STEP UP Activities (cont.)

• Grants
• 3 pre-doctoral scholarships (mini-training
  grants)
• 6 doctoral dissertation scholarships
• 9 curricular innovation grants
• 4 Small grants/pilot study grants
• National tobacco studies workshops
• Tobacco journal supplement
• Tobacco survey among member schools of public
  health

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Survey Results

• Education/training
• 81 offered some kind of tobacco-related
  education and training
• 53 offered tobacco-related courses for credit
• Tobacco-related grants and contracts
• 94 had some funding for tobacco activities
• 130 million across all schools
• average of 4.3 million per school
• 57 came from federal grants
• 28 came from charitable organizations
• 7 came from state funds

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May 3, 2005, Retreat

• ASPH invited representatives from all accredited
  schools of public health to attend
• Objective To develop a strategic plan for the
  next phase of the ASPH/Legacy partnership to
  continue advancing tobacco teaching and
  research.
• Funding provided by Legacy through the STEP UP
  project

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Retreat (cont.)

• Goal to develop a strategic plan to inform ASPH
  and other partners of strategic priorities for
• tobacco research, and
• graduate education/training programs addressing
  tobacco
• 30 individuals attended
• Representation from 27 accredited schools of
  public health

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Retreat Process

• Participants self-selected into breakout groups
  to consider either research or education/training
  as applied to
• areas for advocacy for future funding
• priorities for sustaining and further developing
  research or education/training programs within
  SPH
• methods to maintain vigilance on tobacco
  prevention and control with increasing concerns
  about other risk factors, e.g., obesity and
• implications for program planning for the 2nd
  National Academic Tobacco Workshop
• Each breakout group generated a set of concerns
  and recommendations that were then presented to
  the larger group for synthesis into a unified set