Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #110046

Linda Fleisher, MPH, Cancer Information Education and Reasearch Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 510 Township Line Road, 2nd Floor, Cheltenham, PA 19012, 215-728-3690, Linda.Fleisher@fccc.edu, Jamie Rodriguez, BS, Cancer Information Education Research Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 510 Township Line Road, Cheltenham, PA 19012, Susan M. Myers, MA, MPH, Vice President, Community Health Division, I-LEAD, Inc., 6401 Penn Avenue, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, Leslie A. Best, BA, Bureau of Chronic Disease, Pennsylvania Department of Health, 10th Floor, Health & Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, Raymond A. Howard, MBA, Center for Minority Health, University of Pittsburgh, 125 Parran Hall, 130 Desoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, and Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, Director, Center for Minority Health, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, 125 Parran Hall, 130 Desoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

Based on various state health plan processes, Pennsylvania Department of Health invested $800,000 over 30 months to Latino tobacco control and related activities needed to initiate a Latino health movement in Pennsylvania. The action plan created by I-LEAD, Inc. a sub-contractor to University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health,Center for Minority Health, as funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, was intended to: leverage federal, local, private resources; create partnerships; increase evidence-base for practice; and develop workforce.

There were six delivereables for this contract: a Hispanic Tobacco Bibliography (update/enhancement of the 1999 NCI report); interventions with retailers to reduce Latino youth access to tobacco; a tobacco cessation pilot program for individuals in drug and alcohol treatment; translation and cultural competency services; tobacco smoke pollution induced asthma education; and assistance with communicating grant opportunities to Latino organizations across the state.

Fox Chase Cancer Center's Cancer Information, Education, Information, and Research program was selected by I-LEAD as a key partner for the development of the Hispanic Bibliography based on their expertise, reputation and strong partnerships with NCI, ICC, and others.

This session will focus primarily on the Hispanic Tobacco Bibliography, an expansion of the NCI report in 2001 and how this project has built a reference tool of national significance leveraging MSA, state, and federal resources using a national level expert review panel process to select evidence-based or informed literature. This session will also address how partnerships, mentoring and workforce development strategies were used in the execution of the delivereables.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the relevance and be able to use the Hispanic Tobacco Bibliography
• Describe how one can construct a process to mentor and promote minority professional development

Keywords: Latino Health, Tobacco

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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