Prevention Centers Tobacco Network:
Linking Tobacco Control Research to Policy and Practice
Kenneth Warner, Principal Investigator
10/1/99-10/1/02

The proposed Special Interest Project assisted the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network (UM-TRN), a fundamentally internal research-facilitation organization, in developing relationships with leading tobacco control policy makers and practitioners at the state and local level. UM-TRN explored collaborative linkages and determined how to interact most effectively with state and local health policy and practice communities on issues of tobacco control. To meet this goal, UM-TRN proposed the following:

1. to convene a series of meetings involving University researchers, state health organizations and key public health leadership at the local level;
   
   
2. to devise and expand e-mail lists connecting University and community tobacco and nicotine control researchers to include a broader spectrum of the tobacco control community; and
   
   
3. to design and launch an Internet web site in an effort to make the cutting edge research of UM scholars available to tobacco control researchers, policy makers, and practitioners throughout the state.

While collaboration among UM-TRN and local and state tobacco control entities can lead to the enhancement of tobacco research and education at the University of Michigan, it will reciprocally benefit community health organizations addressing tobacco use prevention and cessation by strengthening currently available programming with the integration of new research into practice.

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