Accomplishments
Since its inception, the UW TSP has awarded a total of $88,600 in 21 fellowships and 21 career development stipends to 34 student scholars. We are currently supporting four scholars for the 2011-2012 academic year. The UW TSP course offerings have been taught for the past 9 years to over 200 matriculated students and auditors, and over 500 unique drop-in visitors. Additionally, over 1,000 unique health and medical professionals have attended UW TSP sponsored seminars and continuing education courses. 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.
Graduates of the program continue to work as researchers, service providers and program administrators at various state agencies, non-profit organizations and health facilities across the US. Tobacco Studies Program alumnae are currently employed at places such as:
- American Legacy Foundation
- Association of Schools of Public Health
- Free & Clear, inc.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- King County Metro
- UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
- UW Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI)
- UW Social Development Research Group (SDRG)
- various state departments of health, including CA, TX and WA
