What is UKCTCS?
The Centre is a strategic partnership of nine UK universities in England and Scotland (Nottingham, Bath, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Stirling, Queen Mary, UCL, York and Bristol) involving leading tobacco control researchers from a range of disciplines.
Each institution will work together to deliver a programme of original research, policy development, advocacy, teaching and training.
UKCTCS is part of a £20 million investment into public health research, funded by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) comprising the Economic & Social Research Council, The British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the National Institute for Health Research and the Medical Research Council.
The other recently established Public Health Research Centres of Excellence are:
North East Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Public Health, Newcastle University
Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement, Cardiff University (in collaboration with Swansea University and Bristol University)
UKCRC Northern Ireland Public Health Research Centre of Excellence, Queens University Belfast
Diet and Physical Activity Public Health Research Centre (link to Press release), Cambridge, University of Cambridge
UKCTCS has established the UK Tobacco Control Research Network - join/login here
News
UKCTCS to host SRNT Europe 2010 annual meeting - more
MPs vote to put tobacco out of sight and out of reach - more
ASH thanks UKCTCS for its help in putting tobacco out of sight - more
Awards
UKCTCS secures £2 million grant for smoking cessation research by the National Institute for Health Research to develop innovative ways of helping people stop smoking in hospitals, the community and in the home. more
