Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements/Awards

Requests for Proposals

California Anti-Smoking TV Commercial Contest Deadline Extended
The State of California has extended its deadline to January 10, 2008 for its TV commercial contest.  To enter, Californians must create a 30-second video promoting the State’s anti-smoking message.  For more information on the contest, click here.  Public voting will take place at the contest’s website during February.

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Job Announcements

• Public Health Prevention Service (PHPS) program
  This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) program is requesting applications from public health agencies for 2-year field assignments in program management for 24 Prevention Specialists of the 2007 PHPS class. Field assignments will begin October 2008 and end two years later in October 2010.  The PHPS program is a 3-year training and service program for postgraduate masters-level professionals interested in careers in public health management. The deadline for letters of intent is January 18, 2008.  For more information, click here.
  
  
• Epidemiologist 
  State Tobacco Use Program 
  Shawnee County, KS 
  
  
• Public Health Educator/Quitline Coordinator  
  State Tobacco Use Program 
  Sedgwick County, KS 
  
  
• Public Health Educator 
  State Tobacco Use Program 
  Ford County, KS 
  
  
• Public Health Educator 
  State Tobacco Use Program 
  Crawford County, KS 
  
  
• Youth Activism Manager  
  Department of Program Development 
  American Legacy Foundation - Washington, DC 
  
  
• Tobacco Control Researcher  
  Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education 
  University of California - San Francisco 
  
  
• Health Care Analyst 3 
  Public Health Informatics 
  Northrop Grumman, Atlanta, GA  USA 
  
  
• Grassroots Advocacy Director 
  Founders Affiliate of the American Heart Association 
  (MA,NJ, NY, NH, VM,CN, RI) 
  
  
• Evaluation Manager (Research Analyst 4) 
  The Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program 
  
  

Awards


• Judy Wilkenfeld Award for International Tobacco Control Excellence
  This award will be given to the international advocate who has both contributed the most to the battle to reduce tobacco use and done the most to bring people together and inspire others to support these efforts.  Nominations are being accepted until February 15, 2008.  Click here to read more about the award and to download the nomination form.
  
  
• National Cancer Institute Tobacco Control Research Branch Cancer Research Training Award (CTRA)
  This fellowship provides an outstanding opportunity for an individual with strong interest in tobacco control, behavioral research, public health, health education, and cancer control to gain experience working in the communications field within a program at the NCI.  For more information click here. 

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