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Pilot Project: Addressing Uncertainty in Tobacco Use Interventions
Friday, January 20, 2012
Constantino LagoaA “Methodology Center Collaborative Research Funding” project has been awarded to Constantino Lagoa, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State. Dr. Lagoa will work with Methodology Center researchers Runze Li and Linda Collins to address issues of data uncertainty in behavioral intervention design. Dr. Lagoa will draw on his background in controller design and systems modeling to inform the design of tobacco-use-reduction interventions. Read more...
 
Workshop for Tobacco Researchers
Friday, January 20, 2012
SRNTIf you research smoking cessation, you may already be planning to attend the 2012 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco’s (SRNT) annual meeting this March in Houston, Texas. Stephanie Lanza of the Methodology Center and Megan Piper of the University of Wisconsin have organized a SRNT pre-conference workshop on March 13 that is co-sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. The day-long session, “New Methods for Advancing Research on Tobacco Dependence” will focus on innovations in methodology (like the time-varying effect model) for ecological momentary assessments (EMA). Presenters include renowned tobacco researchers and researchers focused on new quantitative methods.
 
Featured Article: Human Papillomavirus and Media Messages
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Sanofi Pasteur, “Vaccination” October 9, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution. In a new article in the Journal of Health Psychology, authors Rachel Smith and Roxanne Parrot examine how people think about human papillomavirus (HPV) with semantic network analysis. In this study, 309 undergraduate students were surveyed on their knowledge of HPV. Read more...
 

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