Accomplishments

Since its inception, the UW TSP has awarded a total of $70,000 to 21 students, nine of whom have completed the full tobacco studies concentration and graduated. The UW TSP course offerings have been taught for the past five years to a total of 59 enrolled students, 16 auditors, and over 200 unique drop-in visitors (who come to hear top notch experts and guest lecturers in the fields of tobacco cessation, prevention, research and policy). The UW TSP has also sponsored numerous seminars and journal club meetings. A paper documenting many of these accomplishments is published in a special issue of Public Health Reports:

Savage, S.E. & Halperin, A.C. (2006). Building an academic tobacco control program while forging links with practice: the University of Washington Tobacco Studies Program. Public Health Reports, 121, 529-537.