Congratulations to the first recipients of the OTRU Small Project Grants for Canadian Researchers.

2007

Dr. Russell Callaghan – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"A Drug-market Perspective on the Acquisition and Distribution of Cigarettes among Adolescent Smokers"

Dr. Cameron Norman - University of Toronto
"Web-assisted Tobacco Interventions 2.0: Exploring Young Adults Use of Information Technology for Cessation"

Dr. Candace Nykiforuk - University of Alberta
"Understanding the Ecological Policy Environment of Smoke-free Spaces: School Smoking Policies in the Context of Municipal & Provincial Smoke-free Regulations"

Dr. Svetlana Popova – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"Cost-effectiveness of Different Intervention Strategies in Reducing Tobacco-attributable Morbidity in Ontario and Canada: Simulation Models

Past Recipients of the OTRU Investigator Awards:

2006-2007

Dr. Timothy Dewhirst - University of Saskatchewan
"A Critical Analysis of Export ‘A’ Cigarette Brand Marketing (1970-2006)"

Dr. David Hammond - University of Waterloo
"Communicating Product Risk: Developing More Effective Constituent Labelling"

Dr. Geoffrey Fong - University of Waterloo
"The Impact of the Smoke-Free Ontario Act on Air Quality and Biomarkers of Exposure in Casinos: A Quasi-Experimental Study"

2005 Special Competition for OTS Related Research

Dr. John Cunningham - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"Does Increasing Perceived Choice Motivate Change Among Smokers"

Dr. Anita Kothari - University of Western Ontario
"Intersections Among Tobacco Control Policy Networks Within Ontario"

Dr. Russell Callaghan - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"The Relation Between Process-of-change and Progressive Stage-transition in Smoking-cessation Behaviour: A Test of the Transtheoretical Model"

Dr. Scott Leatherdale - Cancer Care Ontario
"Smoking and Breast Cancer: A Nested-case-control Study of Ontario Women"

2003-2004

Round 2 Winners

Dr. Prabhat Jha - Centre for Global Health Research/St. Michael’s Hospital
"Defining and Refining the Economics of Addiction"

Dr. Jurgen Rehm - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"Determining the Joint Effects of Alcohol and Tobacco on Burden of Disease"

Dr. Peter Selby - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"Smoking Cessation in Patients with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: Patient Characteristics and Quit Rates"

Round 1 Winners

Dr. John Cunningham - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
"Harm Reduction and Brief Interventions for Smokers"

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We would like to thank all of the investigators who submitted applications to the competition. Future award announcements will be posted on OTRU-NET and this website.

Sandra Caswell
Awards Officer
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
33 Russell Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2S1
Tel: (416) 535-8501 ext 4642
sandra_caswell@camh.net