The UCSFCenter for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) invites applications for fellowships in policy-relevant tobacco control research. Completed applications are due January 28, 2009, for Fellowships beginning July 1, 2009.
CTCRE represents a partnership between UCSF faculty and the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL). UCSF is a leader in tobacco control research and the LTDL was the first to make proprietary, tobacco documents, accessible on the Internet.
Program Purpose:
To train recent MD or PhD Recipients to launch independent carries in tobacco policy relevant research:postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale. These positions are supported by an R25T NIH training grant.
In some cases scholars with more than three years of postdoctoral trainingmay beaccepted for special research projects. Advanced or senior scholars will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience and subject to funding availability. Source of funding may include support from the scholar’s home institution, faculty-mentor funding, or an R25T NIH training grant.
Trainees will be recruited from a variety of fields including basic science, social science, public health, clinical science, political science, history, economics, law and marketing. They will study and conduct research in association with UCSF faculty mentors. Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at our website: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/
Find out more about how the tobacco companies operate with our new podcast series: Tobacco Industry Tactics: A Look in Company Files on Podcasts@UCSF (https://cit.ucsf.edu/podcast/description.php?id=53). Researchers present the work they’ve done using the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library as a resource. You can play them on your computer or iPod and subscribe to the series. Contact Kim Klausner at kimDOTklausnerATlibraryDOTucsfDOTedu if you are interested in presenting your work.
James Valastro of memefilms has produced a video titled Searching the American Legacy Tobacco Documents that combines document searching, students, and video production. After attending the UCSF Tobacco Documents workshop in the Spring, Mr. Valastro himself conducted a 5-hour workshop for middle-school and high-school students, teaching them to search the millions of pages of once secret internal tobacco documents. This 9 minute video is the result of the workshop and a wonderful showcase for the students' interest in critical thinking, health education and media production.
BATDA and Smokeless Tobacco collections now on LTDL
Today, the entire body of documents in the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA) was merged with the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, bringing the document count in LTDL to over 50 million pages in 9.7 million documents. You can now search for BATDA documents separately in LTDL (choose just the "British American Tobacco" collection on the search page) and in conjunction with the 13 other tobacco industry collections.
With this merge comes a few changes to be aware of:
1) The BATDA website is still up and online at http://bat.library.ucsf.edu only now when you conduct a search from BATDA, your results will be returned in LTDL.
2) In order to allow a uniform search across all collections in LTDL, a few of the field codes were changed in the BAT collection. Seasoned BATDA users who are used to using the two-letter field codes should consult the Expanded Field Definition section in BATDA to see what has changed.
We realize this merging of the two digital libraries may take some time to get used to but we hope this ultimately provides a better, more comprehensive and fruitful search experience for all researchers.
In addition to the BAT collection, a new collection of Smokeless Tobacco documents have been added to LTDL under the collection name "US Smokeless Tobacco". This collection contains 128,695 pages in 11,258 documents and we plan to post another large set of Smokeless Tobacco documents in the near future.
As always, please contact us with any questions, comments, and concerns - we appreciate all of the feedback and suggestions for the site.
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