Ward Kenneth D
University of Memphis.
Health Behav Res. 2017;1(1). doi: 10.4148/2572-1836.1007.
This paper is based on my 2017 Research Laureate Presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Health Behavior in Tucson, Arizona. It provides a brief overview of the history of the smoking epidemic, and describes my work in global tobacco control, focusing on my experiences over the last 15 years as a co-founder and intervention director of the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies (SCTS) in Aleppo, Syria. The SCTS is an NIH-funded research center that draws on a broad range of complementary expertise and resources from developed and developing nations to address the tobacco epidemic in the Arab World. The SCTS strives to serve as a model of scientific excellence and commitment to the health of people in the Middle East and beyond. Major research streams using qualitative, epidemiological, clinical lab, and intervention methodologies are reviewed, along with some of the successes and challenges encountered since the SCTS's founding.
本文基于我2017年在亚利桑那州图森市举行的美国健康行为学会年度科学会议上发表的“研究奖得主演讲”。它简要概述了吸烟流行的历史，并描述了我在全球烟草控制方面的工作，重点讲述了我过去15年作为叙利亚阿勒颇市烟草研究中心（SCTS）的联合创始人兼干预主任的经历。SCTS是一个由美国国立卫生研究院资助的研究中心，它利用来自发达国家和发展中国家的广泛互补专业知识和资源，应对阿拉伯世界的烟草流行问题。SCTS努力成为科学卓越以及致力于中东及其他地区人民健康的典范。本文回顾了使用定性、流行病学、临床实验室和干预方法的主要研究方向，以及自SCTS成立以来所取得的一些成功和遇到的挑战。
