Monday, October 21, 2013
TOBACCOPostdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF
Applications are due January 22, 2014 for fellowships beginning July 1, 2014. Visit
http://www.tobacco.ucsf.edu/fellowship to apply.
The purpose of the fellowship is to prepare individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to join the next 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 fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in all aspects of tobacco control research. Our program stresses the skills needed to conduct research in diverse, 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. We place a high priority on developing a fellowship program that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $41,264 - $51,884, $2000 above the current NIH stipend scale.
Learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, current fellows, and faculty and their research interests at
www.tobacco.ucsf.edu.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
TOBACCONew Documents Added to LTDL
353 new documents were added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today. The breakdown is as follows:
In addition, we have added to the metadata of
over 1800 documents that were modified/revised by the industry in August.
Thursday, October 03, 2013
DRUGSymposium on Institutional Corruption and Big Pharma
The Fall 2013 issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is devoted to a special topic: Institutional Corruption and the Pharmaceutical Industry.
In this symposium issue, 16 articles investigate the corruption of pharmaceutical policy, each taking a different look at the sources of corruption, how it occurs, and what is corrupted. The authors show that Big Pharma's funding of election campaigns and lobbying skews the legislative process that sets pharmaceutical policy and that certain practices have corrupted medical research, the production of medical knowledge, the practice of medicine, drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of the pharmaceutical market, and the trustworthiness of patient advocacy organizations.
Special issue: SYMPOSIUM: Institutional corruption and the pharmaceutical industry.(2013). The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41(3).
Thursday, September 19, 2013
TOBACCOProp 65 Trial Transcripts Posted to LTDL
California’s Proposition 65, also known as California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires the state to keep a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. When hazardous doses of those chemicals are present, companies are required to notify the public, usually in the form of warning labels and signs. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit. 2,523 documents from California Prop 65 secondhand smoke litigation have been posted to
LTDL today. This special collection is a part of our larger Tobacco DATTA collection and contains trial transcripts, depositions and exhibits pertaining to Prop 65 secondhand smoke court actions.
To access all documents for this special collection, search for
speccoll:"Proposition 65" in the LTDL
search box.
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In addition to the Prop 65 transcripts:
Thursday, September 05, 2013
TOBACCOFive New Publications for the Tobacco Documents Bibliography
The
Tobacco Documents Bibliography has added 5 new papers/publications for July and August 2013! These additions include papers and book chapters on the effects of cigarette design features, sociological testimony and evidence in product liability litigation, and older smokers on governmental regulation of tobacco to name a few.
Bibliography Highlight:
Yerger VB, Cataldo JK, Malone RE. Older smokers could be the strongest supporters for U.S. government regulation of tobacco: a focus group study. Tob Induc Dis. 2013 Aug 17;11(1). "Targeting of marginalized groups with aggressive tobacco marketing has been identified as exacerbating health disparities. However, interpretation of such targeting by groups varies, from surprise and outrage to regarding such marketing as evidence of social legitimacy. We sought to learn how an often-overlooked marginalized group, older adults, would respond to industry documents offering evidence of tobacco company target marketing."
The authors conducted focus groups using documents from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, among other resources, to examine older (≥50 years) smokers and former smokers' reactions to the tobacco companies' marketing strategies targeted towards aging populations.
A few key documents from LTDL:“The rapidly growing size and increasing disposable income of older Americans makes this segment a prime target for many products and services"
RJ Reynolds 1991
"Even though the term ‘low tar’ is being used here, it should be pointed out that almost none of the respondents know the specific tar count of the brands they smoke or of those they try. Instead, they say they ‘go by’ designations on the package (or in advertising), such as ‘low tar’ or ‘light.’"
Lorillard 1987
“In general, younger people are not as concerned about their health. Conversely older individuals who had begun to take health issue more seriously appeared more favorable toward the ‘low tar’ concept.”
Philip Morris 1980
Thursday, August 08, 2013
TOBACCONew Trial Transcripts and Plain Packaging Documents Posted
189 new documents were added to the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today.
This includes:
In addition, over 30,000 documents were revised this month, either by the tobacco companies themselves or through our efforts to enhance the indexing of certain important fields such as Persons and Organizations Mentioned and Brands.
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