The Center for Tobacco Policy Research has four main areas of focus and expertise:

1. Evaluating programs and policies;
2. Examining sustainability;
3. Taking a systems approach using social network analysis; and
4. Translating and disseminating our findings to practitioners and decisionmakers.

Below are examples of our work in each of these areas. Please feel free to contact us for more information.

Evaluating programs and policies:

MFH Initiative Evaluation School Policy Project Project LEaP Best Practices Project

Examining sustainability:

Presentation (2006): Sustaining and Maintaining State Chronic Disease Programs: Experiences from Tobacco Control

Taking a systems approach using social network analysis:

Presentation (2006): Inter-organizational Network Analysis: The Utility of a Systems Approach to Health Research and Practice Poster (2006): Mapping the US Department of Health and Human Services tobacco control leadership

Translating and disseminating our findings to practioners and decisionmakers:

Project LEaP and Best Practices Project Report Series' Journal Articles and Books by CTPR Staff Conference Posters Conference and Invited Presentations