ASPHAmerican Legacy Foundation STEP UP Program: An Innovative Partnership

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ASPH/American Legacy Foundation STEP UP Program
An Innovative Partnership
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Background

• Funded by American Legacy Foundation to ASPH From
  2001- 2005
• Grants to Schools - 22 grants at 11 SPH
• Tobacco Use Prevention Council
• Tobacco Workshop
• Tobacco Journal Supplement

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Scholarship, Training, and Education Program for
Tobacco Use Prevention (STEP UP)Grants Program

• Increase the number of graduate students and
  faculty in public health who specialize in
  tobacco studies and research
• Better integrate tobacco-related issues into
  graduate public health education and,
• Build a stronger infrastructure for
  tobacco-related education in schools of public
  health.

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ASPH/Legacy Review Committee (ALRC)

• Dean Andrew Balas Saint Louis University SPH
• Dr. Cheryl Healton American Legacy Foundation
• Dr. Elizabeth  Barbeau Harvard University SPH
• Dr. Michael Begay University of Massachusetts
  SPH
• Dr. Barbara Berman UCLA SPH
• Dr. Vicki Cleaver University of Oklahoma COPH
• Dr. Sue Curry University of Illinois at Chicago
  SPH
• Dr. Melbourne Hovell SDSU GSPH
• Dr. Harry Lando University of Minnesota SPH
• Dr. Kathleen Miner Emory University Rollins SPH
• Dr. Patricia Mullen University of Texas-Houston
  SPH
• Dr. Mary Ellen Wewers Ohio State University SPH

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STEP UP Funding Categories

• Pre-doctoral Scholarships - 3
• Doctoral Scholarship - 6
• Curricular Innovation - 9
• Pilot Study Grant - 4
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• Total
  22

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Pre-doctoral Scholarships

• Mini-training grants for schools to build a
  critical mass of talented graduates to supplement
  the existing pipeline of tobacco scholars.
• Funds are used for student tuition and/or
  stipends, program staffing, and other direct
  costs.

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Curricular Innovation Grants

• Supports interdisciplinary approaches to tobacco
  research, education, service, policy, and
  practice in which tobacco studies are
  successfully integrated into core graduate public
  health education and through which graduates may
  demonstrate competence in tobacco-related areas
  (in class, web-based, and some with practice
  components).

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Doctoral Dissertation Scholarships

• Mentors make a difference
• Various topics
• Evaluation
• Risk Perception
• Effect of State Tobacco Policies
• Randomized Trial
• Cessation in Relation to Mortality

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Small Grant/Pilot Study

• Provides opportunities for junior faculty or
  post-doctorates or to explore or build upon work
  with communities of interest and to advance
  research in tobacco studies.
• Study Topics Funded
• Poverty, Childcare Responsibility and Women
  Smoking.
• Access to Bidis Among Adolescent.
• Integrating Smoking Cessation in Homeless
  Shelters.
• Guided Imagery and Adult Smoking.

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Tobacco Studies Survey

• Conducted in 32 ASPH member schools
• 100 response
• Survey period (2001-2002)

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Lessons Learned

• Clause 12
• Need for infrastructure to initiate the project
• Tobacco is not a Public Health Problem
• Saturation Point

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STEP UPs Reflection

• Collaborate among American Legacy Foundation,
  ASPH, and Schools of Public Health
• Share information and resource between
  different schools
• Linkage between research and practice
• Promote and Support new tobacco researchers

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Workshop Aims To..

• share information about how grantees are
  advancing STEP UP objectives both through
  curricular innovation research activities
• support sustainable tobacco-related curricula and
  research in all SPH, with a special emphasis on
  best practices in academic-practice partnerships
  and,
• assess, implement, evaluate, and recommend best
  approaches to tobacco-related public health
  education.

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• Workshop Topics
• Defining the Tobacco Studies Challenge for
  Academic Practice
• Poster Session
• Tobacco Competencies
• Reaching the Next Generation of Public Health
  Professionals
• Supporting Faculty and Administrators
• Enriching Tobacco Education Efforts Through
  Partnerships
• Funding Opportunities
• Tobacco Training and Research Success and
  Barriers
• Recommendations for the Future of Tobacco
  Studies in Schools of Public Health
• Keeping Tobacco on the Agenda

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