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Wednesday, October 13, 2010TOBACCO

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF

Applications are due January 26, 2011 for fellowships beginning July 1, 2011.

Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree

The purpose of the fellowship is to attract individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to develop a new generation of academic leaders in tobacco control. Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control interventions. 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.

The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance.

The program offers individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics. UCSF is a global leader in tobacco science, a World Health Organization collaborating center, and home of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,740-$52,068, according to the NIH stipend scale.

To apply, please visit: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu
Thursday, September 30, 2010TOBACCO

New Philip Morris Documents Added

123,376 documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today!


To take a look at all documents added today, search the "Date Added to UCSF" field using today's date in a yyyymmdd format - ddu:20100930

Wednesday, September 29, 2010TOBACCO

The Tobacco Docs Bibliography keeps growing...

New papers and on-line reports have been added to the UCSF Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Read about "British American Tobacco and China's accession to the World Trade Organization" and "Advertising and Counter-advertising Tobacco Products to Youth" among other topics.

The Tobacco Documents Bibliography is a comprehensive listing of papers, reports, books and other publications based on research and analysis of tobacco industry documents. Do you have a paper or publication that should be included in the Tobacco Documents Bibliography? Contact us!
Friday, September 10, 2010TOBACCO

Formerly Privileged Documents Posted

1101 new documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library:

  • 359 new Lorillard documents
  • 462 formerly privileged Philip Morris documents - this means we now have the document itself and not just the metadata record
  • 280 new Philip Morris privileged document records

To see all of the newly added documents, search on the date the documents were added to LTDL in a yyymmdd format - "ddu:20100909" (without quotes).

Thursday, August 19, 2010TOBACCO

New Philip Morris Documents Added

Over 43,000 Philip Morris documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today. You can search for these documents by entering "ddu:20100819" (without the quotation marks) in the search query box.
Friday, July 16, 2010TOBACCO

New Multimedia Added to LTDL

42 RJ Reynolds documents and 30 videos were added to LTDL on Thursday, July 15, 2010. To access these additions, search LTDL for ddu:20100715

In addition, 101 U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) audio recordings now have detailed metadata and are available for viewing and downloading through the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/tobaccoarchives_audio

To find these audio recordings on LTDL, search the Multimedia collection for dt:audio AND origcn:us smokeless tobacco.

These audio recordings from 1970-1980s contain radio commercials for Skoal, Copenhagen, Skoal Bandits, and Happy Days, announcements for promotional events at 7-Eleven and other retail outlets, as well as radio reports and interviews about the launch of the Weyman-Bruton chewing tobacco brand.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010TOBACCO

11 New Papers Added to the Bibliography

11 new or revised citations have been added to the ever-growing Tobacco Documents Bibliography. Read about research on the genetics of nicotine addiction; the tobacco industry and the Clinton Health Plan; tobacco-disabled veterans and disability pensions; the tobacco industry and African American and Latino labor organizations; and the "We Card" program among others.