nd Oral Surgery. Additional collaborators with the Mailman School, NewYork-Presbyterian, and CUMC include Bellevue, Harlem, Metropolitan, Lenox Hill, and St. Luke's Hospitals; Clinical Directors Network; Community Premier Plus; the Health and Hospitals Corporation and Group Health Insurance; and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

In addition to designing and implementing interventions to ensure that all smokers are identified and linked to effective treatment, the program:

• Provides ongoing technical assistance to partnering sites;

• Provides healthcare provider training on evidence based treatment of tobacco use;

• Provides resources to clinicians and patients such as self-help materials and information on pharmacotherapy, smokers' quit lines, and other cessation resources;

• Implements referral systems for other on-site and community programs including the New York State Smokers' Quit Line;

• Advocates for written quality assurance plans that mandate practices for tobacco use screening, training and intervention; and

• Evaluates the impact of all interventions.

Through partnerships with communities, health departments, and allied disciplines, the Mailman School's Center for Applied Public Health (CAPH) is at the forefront of community driven public health research and practice, and among the leaders in developing and implementing replicable models of community-academic partnerships that address a multitude of health issues. The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant builds on existing partnerships and tobacco related programs such as CAPH's Legacy Tobacco Control Evaluation Research Network and the Center for Community Health Partnership Community Voices Anti-Tobacco Program.

CAPH's ongoing tobacco initiatives include tobacco control in Central Harlem and determinants of smoking initiation among post adole
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Contact: Stephanie Berger
sb2247@columbia.edu
212-305-5635
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
21-Mar-2005

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