STEP UP Pre-doctoral Scholarship Grants: A Tale of Three Programs

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STEP UP Pre-doctoral Scholarship GrantsA Tale
of Three Programs

• Abigail Halperin
• University of Washington
• Legacy/ASPH Workshop Nashville, TN
• January 31, 2006

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Acknowledgments

• ASPH Liz and Kalpana
• Legacy Karen Martin
• University of Washington SPHCM
• HS Chair Bill Dowling
• Dean Pat Wahl
• Community Partners
• Terry Reid (DOH)
• Roger Valdez (PH-SKC)
• STEP UP Review Planning Committees and Grantees

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Overall Purpose of STEP UP Grant Initiative

• Attract and support tobacco studies scholars
• Enhance and build curricular innovation in
  tobacco-related studies
• Develop and support tobacco prevention and
  cessation projects within local communities

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Goals of STEP UP Programs

• Increase the number and quality of graduate
  students and faculty in public health who
  specialize in tobacco studies
• Better integrate tobacco-related issues into
  graduate public health education
• Build a stronger infrastructure for
  tobacco-related education in schools of public
  health
• Support more productive academic-practice
  linkages on tobacco issues through projects with
  communities of interest

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Workforce Needs for Reducing Tobacco Use

• Tremendous progress over 40 years, but work is
  not done
• Translation of tobacco control knowledge and
  research into practice
• Addressing disparities in tobacco use, burden of
  disease and mortality
• Core competencies for tobacco control plus
• Economics (win-win for health business)
• Bioethics (morality social justice)
• Pharmaceutics (old new treatments)
• Policy/Politics (grass roots top down)

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SUMMARY 22 Grants Curricular Innovation Pre-doctoral Scholarship Doctoral Dissertation Jr. Faculty Research
UCLA X X (N5)
UW Seattle X X (N12)
UNC CH X (N8) XXX
Hopkins X X
UMDNJ XX X
Harvard XX XX
Columbia X
Iowa X
Loma Linda X
USC X
Puerto Rico X
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Pre-Doctoral/MPH Scholarship Programs

• UNC SPH PI Kurt Ribisl
• Combined Pre-Doc and Doctoral programs in context
  of well-established tobacco course and research
  program
• UCLA SPH PI Barbara Berman
• Combined Pre-Doc with new Curriculum development,
  existing research faculty
• Program discontinued due to Clause 12
• UW SPHCM PI Abigail Halperin
• Built curriculum program first, then began
  Pre-Doc program no pre-existing courses or
  research program

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Common Elements

• Integration of scholars into new and existing
  courses
• Provision of mentorship and research
  opportunities
• Flexible funding to maximize number of students
• Scholars required to complete practicum, thesis
  and/or community service in tobacco control
• Conference attendance/presentations
• Journal club or seminar/brown bag series

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Strengths of Programs

• Building programs where none existed before or
  enhancement of existing programs
• Integration of education, research and practice
• Collaboration with community public health orgs
• Attraction and funding of MPH/graduate students
  to pursue tobacco control
• Total of 25 students funded!
• Diverse group, reflective of population

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University of California Los Angeles
Student and Department Community Service Partner Topic Area of Interest Conference/ Presentation
Koy Parada MPH, Community Health Services UCLA AAPI Student Orgs and ACS Smoking among AAPI College Students NCTOH, 2003
Jeff Dang MPH, Community Health Services ALA Media Advocacy Inter-vention, ACS Smoking in the Movies (also as above) NCTOH, 2003
Estee Liebross, Health Management LAC Health Dept, Mexican Consulate Youth education re tobacco industry tactics SRNT, 2003
Thomas Cruz, Health Services UCLA PHSA, Board, Regents Divestment of tobacco stocks APHA, 2003
Rita Velekina MPH, Epidemiology King Drew Medical Center Af Am biological markers/oral CA SRNT, 2003
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University of North Carolina
Student, Program, Department Topic of Interest and/or Peer-Reviewed Publications (N7 5 submitted) Current Position or Employer
Eileen Yam, MPH, Maternal Child Health Passage of Smoke-Free Dorms on Tobacco Use Among College Students Health Educator, Womens Health (Mexico)
Natasha Jamison, MPH, Health Behavior Educ Predictors of Success or Failure for 100 Tobacco-Free Policies in Middle and High Schools CDC Office on Smoking Health (OSH)
Catherine Rohweder, PhD, Maternal Child Health National Partnership for Helping Pregnant Somkers Quit. AHIP Cover UNC Smoke-Free Families Program
Eric Pevzner, PhD, Health Behavior Educ Correlates of Bidi Cigarette Use Among Youth. Prev Med Adolesc Health Am J Health Behav CDC Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS)
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University of North Carolina
Student, Program, Department Topic of Interest and/or Peer-Reviewed Publications (N7 5 submitted) Current Position or Employer
Betty Markatos, MPH, Health Behavior Educ Impact of youth empowerment for tobacco use prevention. Health Education and Behavior Research Triangle Institute
James Thrasher, PhD, Health Behavior Educ Impact of Anti-Industry (truth) Messages in Tobacco Producing States. Tobacco Control Post Doc Fellow, Univ of Illinois at Chicago
Jennifer Levine, MPH, Health Behavior Educ Marketing Practices of Internet Cigarette Vendors TBD
Suzanne DePalma MPH, Health Policy Admin Successful Implementation of and Compliance with Tobacco-Free Policies in School Districts NC Dept of Health, Tobacco Control
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University of Washington Tobacco Concentration
Scholars
Student, Dept Track (HServ) Degree, Grad Year Practicum Placement Thesis or Capstone Current Position
Beth Dadko COPHP MPH, 2004 (2003-04) SeaKingCo HD, Group Health Smoke-free Guide for Bar Owners Santa Rosa Childhood Injury Prev
Joe Balabis COPHP MPH, 2005 (2003-05) WAPIFASA API Youth Tobac Prev CDC PHS Prev Fellow
Beatriz Carlini Social Behav-ioral Sciences MPH, 2005 (2003-05) WA State Quit Line FreeClear Industry Documents Study Research Scientist, FreeClear
Sarah Ross-Viles COPHP MPH, 2006 (2004-06) SeaKingCo Health Dept Pub Housing Survey Completing MPH
DeAnn Cromp Social Behav-ioral Sciences MPH, 2007 (2005-07 projected) SeaKingCo Health Dept Tobacco Use Among the Mentally Ill Beginning MPH
COPHP Community Oriented Public Health
Practice Track
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University of Washington Career Development
Scholars
Student, Dept or Track Year Interest Area, Paper or Project
Gary Gant, COPHP 2003-04 Tobac Industry Marketing to Af Am
Beatriz Carlini, SBS 2003-04 Harm Reduction Alcohol vs. Tobacco
Joe Balabis, COPHP 2003-04 History of Tobac Control in Phillipines
Sarah Ross-Viles, COPHP 2004-05 Tobac Cessation in Pregnant Women
Jef St. De Lore, SBS 2004-05 Tobac Marketing Use Among LGBT
Gwyneth Moya, SBS 2004-05 Tobac Counter Marketing Art Patch
Megan Fesinmeyer MPH, Public Health Genetics 2005-06 Association Between Smokeless Tobacco/Snus and Pancreatic Cancer
Caleb Banta-Green MPH, Health Services PhD Prog 2005-06 Impact of Tobacco Use on Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Outcomes
Heather Ngai, SBS 2005-06 Tobacco Use Treatment Asian Pop
TheAnh Nguyen, Pharm 2005-06 Pharmacologic Treatment of Tobacco
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Into the Future

• Cadre of 25 students
• 19 fledged
• 6 current
• Academic-community relationships
• Increased awareness and interest among
  students/faculty/admin
• Publications
• PHR Special Issue
• Leadership

University of Washington Tobacco Scholars 2005-06