Since CTPR opened in 2001 we've worked on a number of large and small projects ranging from mapping the tobacco control leadership at the United States Department of Health and Human Services to evaluating the use of the Best Practices in ten state tobacco control programs. To learn more about a few of these projects, click on a link in the list below or in the menu at top of the page.

MFH Initiative Evaluation

CTPR serves as the evaluator for the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative. The Initiative kicked off in 2005 and runs through 2014. It involves several activities including grant making and policy development to address the problem of tobacco use at both the regional and community level. CTPR is evaluating the effect of foundation-supported tobacco prevention and control programs on tobacco use in Missouri. CTPR also provides technical assistance and training for all of the Initiative’s grantees.

CDC National Networks Project

CTPR has been selected as the evaluator for the CDC Office on Smoking and Health (CDC/OSH), National Network Initiative. The National Network Initiative was created in 2001 as a way to fund national networks to focus on tobacco-related disparities in priority populations. For the first five years of the initiative, eight national networks were funded. Now, a new two-year funding cycle has been instated to fund six national organizations to specifically address tobacco use in prevention in specified priority.

School Policy Project

CTPR partnered with the CDC Office on Smoking and Health to develop a tool for tobacco control practitioners and educational leaders to systematically evaluate the comprehensiveness of school tobacco control policies.

Project LEaP

To find out how state tobacco control programs were handling the $14.5 Billion in funding cuts in 2003, CTPR conducted an evaluation of eight states with varying funding situations. The project was organized into three phases: 1) a needs assessment and state selection; 2) state recruitment and data collection; and 3) data analysis and dissemination.

Best Practices

In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, the first science-based set of recommendations on how states should develop and fund comprehensive tobacco control programs. The Best Practices Project explored how states were using the CDC's Best Practices guidelines, and identified the facilitating factors and challenges to implementing a comprehensive tobacco control program. Specifically, the project goals were: to develop a comprehensive picture of a state's tobacco control program; to examine the effects of political, organizational, and financial factors on state tobacco control programs; and to learn how states used the CDC's Best Practices guidelines.