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Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2009 11(5):463-466; doi:10.1093/ntr/ntp078
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Richard Hébert

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   TTURCs talk policy: Lessons learned
 
Consensus that cross-fertilization of disciplines would speed progress in reducing the toll from tobacco use led to the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) initiative. To this assembly of diverse researchers was then added funding for TTURC Partners that expanded the boundaries to include policy research: how to transfer findings into life-saving programs, influence businesses to adopt policies out of self-interest, collaborate with stakeholders, and evaluate policies themselves.

Kobus and Mermelstein (p. 467) reviewed the efforts of the six TTURCs that engaged in such policy-research partnerships to determine what strategies worked best. Their recommendations for future efforts:

  • Allow ample time for "listening across the gulf." The start-up should provide opportunities for team-building and pilot or feasibility studies.
  • Involve senior policy researchers as central members of the team, not merely as consultants.
  • A central office should give detailed feedback on proposals, one-on-one consultations, and policy workgroup meetings to provide . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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