In the Department of Implementation Science, our researchers are conducting the following studies on cancer prevention and control:
North Carolina Site for the Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST)
The Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco is a national effort to identify new and emerging tobacco products before they can addict large numbers of young people. The goal is for health agencies to not be caught off guard by products that gain rapid popularity among youth and young adults.
North Carolina Site for the Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST)
The Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST) performs surveillance of tobacco product marketing, the tobacco product marketplace, and tobacco use behaviors, transforming tobacco surveillance to be rapid, comprehensive, and coordinated, with salient findings fed immediately into traditional data collection systems. By identifying and evaluating signals in a timely fashion, the CRST generates critical actionable information about changes in tobacco products which can inform FDA's regulation of tobacco products leading to a substantial public health impact.
Resources from the study include an image library of tobacco products confiscated in schools and fact sheets from state data collection. Additionally, CRST provides marketing alerts.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine Team
- Joseph Lee, PhD, MPH – I am a professor of implementation science in the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Division of Public Health Sciences. My funding has come from American Cancer Society, Cancer Research UK, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Cancer Institute, National Library of Medicine, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. I graduated from Duke University and, twice, from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. I am originally from Madison County, NC.
- Elisabeth Reed – I am a project coordinator. My primary projects include monitoring new and emerging tobacco products in retail environments and internet access among farmworker and rural communities. I graduated from East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Science in Public Health, and I grew up in Wilson, North Carolina.
- Abdul Zahra – I am a project manager, and I manage our current grants. I received my bachelor's degree from East Carolina University.