Partners with Tobacco Use Research Centers: Advancing Transdisciplinary Science and Policy Studies (TTURC)
Grant ID: TRC
The Partners with Tobacco Use Research Centers' and Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers' (TTURC) programs represent a collaborative effort among seven federally funded research centers to study new ways of combating tobacco use and nicotine addiction and to translate results and implications of this work for policy-makers, practitioners and the public. Its Web site provides information on these research partners and their research findings, and it highlights news that is relevant to the field of nicotine and tobacco research.

Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Conditions
Grant ID: CCO
The Partnership for Solutions is an initiative to improve the care and quality of life for the more than 125 million Americans with chronic health conditions. The Partnership's Web site features information about the problems related to chronic health conditions, promising solutions, statistics and research.

Program of Research to Integrate Substance Use Issues into Mainstream Healthcare (PRISM)
Grant ID: RIM
The overall goal of PRISM is to integrate knowledge and management skills about substance use into mainstream health care. The underlying theory of PRISM is that alcohol and other substances often adversely affect the course of common chronic illnesses and that management of substance use can improve the outcomes of those illnesses. The first stage of the PRISM program is the systematic development of knowledge about the effects of alcohol and drug use on the course, management, outcomes and costs of common chronic illnesses. The first illnesses under study include diabetes, hypertension, sleep disorders, breast cancer, osteoporosis, asthma and chronic pain. PRISM commissions and publishes systematic reviews of the existing literature and also provides small grants to qualified researchers now working in particular diseases to examine substance use effects on those diseases. The PRISM Web site features links to its presentations, commissioned reviews, grants and related publications.

Public Health Informatics Institute
Grant ID: PHI
The goal of the Public Health Informatics Institute is to advance public health practitioners' ability to strategically apply and manage health information systems. The Institute works with public health and health care organizations to collaboratively define the health information problem, analyze business processes, define requirements and develop performance measures. Current work includes projects on child health information systems and laboratory information management systems (LIMS). Go to its Web site to learn more about its work as well as research briefs, case studies and tools related to public health informatics.

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