Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF
Applications are due January 26, 2011 for fellowships beginning July 1, 2011.
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Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,740-$52,068, according to the NIH stipend scale.
Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree
The training program is a national treasure that offers a unique and comprehensive didactic and mentored research experience that considers the transdisciplinary nature of tobacco control in national and international health policy. The emphasis on science to policy research is relatively rare in tobacco research training and highly relevant, given the recent changes in tobacco control public health policies. The Program Director, Dr. Stanton Glantz, has a long and distinguished career conducting transdisciplinary research and mentoring on a wide variety of smoking-related topics and disease endpoints… The Program Co-Director, Pamela Ling, M.D., M.P.H., has been actively involved in the program since its inception … In addition, [there is] a large group of stellar faculty mentors. The environment is exceptional, including collaboration with the World Health Organization’s efforts on Tobacco Control and access to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library; strong Institutional support is also evident.
--NIH Peer Review Summary Statement, 2010
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. Our program stresses the skills needed to conduct research in collaborative transdisciplinary settings. We emphasize leadership in catalyzing the integration of multiple disciplines and translating science to policy and clinical practice. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from medicine, public health, nursing, economics, anthropology, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology. Prior tobacco research experience is relevant, but not necessary for acceptance.
We offer 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.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
"It's About a Billion Lives" - UC San Francisco, February 25, 2011
Friday, December 03, 2010
New RJR Documents and Tobacco Industry Web Archive
2370 RJ Reynolds documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.
In addition, we have launched a new web archive, hosted by the California Digital Library's
Web Archiving Service, called the
Tobacco Industry Web Archive. This searchable site contains periodically archived websites of the major U.S. and international tobacco companies and in time will also contain websites concerned with emerging tobacco products such as the e-cigarette. The company websites are the public face of the tobacco industry. They include timely press releases, market share reports and company opinions on health-related and corporate responsibility issues. The corporate sites are currently captured quarterly. Please send us your comments and suggestions!
Thursday, November 04, 2010
New Search Feature: Hide Duplicate Documents
Today's new version release contains a new feature and some new documents.
Hide DuplicatesIn order to help make the search process more efficient and fruitful, we have implemented a "hide duplicates" feature on the Expert Search page.
In LTDL, a document is considered a duplicate if it has the exact same
title, document date and page count as another document. In a library of more than 11 million documents, this is, of course, not 100% foolproof; many documents that are indeed true duplicates may have different metadata attached and will therefore not be caught. Also, many false positives (same title, date and page count) will occur for documents which are in fact different. This feature is by no means exact but we hope it will help pare down the results to more meaningful sets.
The "hide duplicates" check box on the Expert Search page will be checked by default but if you would like to see all documents in your search results, just uncheck the box and re-run the search.
If a document has indeed been identified as a duplicate of another document(s), there will be a link to that other document(s) within the metadata record.
Please give us your feedback on this feature using the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page - we need to know if you find any problems or glitches and also if it helps you in your searches. We are excited about this feature and hope to make the documents more searchable and accessible for our users.
New Documents Added:
Lorillard -
10 documentsTobacco Institute -
35 documentsWednesday, October 13, 2010
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.eduThursday, September 30, 2010
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, 2010
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?
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