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[Rick Bevins]

Increasing Diversity in Nicotine and Tobacco Research:
Travel Scholarship to the 2011 SRNT Annual Meeting

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
2011 SRNT Annual Meeting
February 16-19, 2011
Westin Harbour Castle
Toronto, Canada
http://www.srnt.org/conferences/index.cfm
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Background
The 2004 Institute of Medicine Report, In the Nation’s Compelling
Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce, clearly
states that although the diversity of the United States is rapidly
increasing, many minority racial/ethnic groups are under-represented
in the health professions. Increasing diversity, particularly among
researchers, may help to enhance the diversity of research
environments and ultimately help improve global health.

Purpose
The Tobacco-Related Health Disparities Network of the Society for
Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) has established as one of its
goals to increase the diversity of its membership. Therefore, SRNT is
committed to increasing the diversity of researchers who help to
stimulate and generate new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its
manifestations -- from the molecular to the societal level. The
purpose of the Diversity Travel Scholarship program is to increase the
diversity of researchers interested in nicotine and tobacco research
by:

Providing travel support to attend the 2011 Society for Research on
Nicotine and Tobacco 17th Annual Meeting
Promoting collaboration and intergenerational and interdisciplinary
networking

The scholarship program is a partnership between the American Legacy
Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, the California Tobacco-
Related Disease Research Program, and the Society for Research on
Nicotine and Tobacco and is administered by the Tobacco-Related Health
Disparities Network of SRNT.

Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the Scholarship, you must:

Have an interest in nicotine and tobacco research and be committed to
the mission of SRNT.
Hold junior faculty (assistant professor, instructor, or equivalent),
post-doctoral trainee, or graduate student rank at a U.S. or Canadian-
based university.
Be willing to attend the networking breakfast.
Not be a former scholarship recipient.
Live at least 50 miles outside of the Toronto, Canada area.

Preference will be given to applicants from minority racial/ethnic
groups; the disabled; candidates from lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender groups; or candidates from a disadvantaged group. U.S.
minority racial/ethnic groups are defined as American Indian/Alaska
Native, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, or
Latino/Hispanic.


Important Dates
Applications due November 22, 2010 at 5pm, MDT.
Scholarship recipients notified no later than December 17th, 2010.
Recipients must confirm their acceptance of the scholarship by January
3th, 2011.
Recipients must make flight arrangements by January 14th 2011.
Hotel must be booked by January 14th 2011.


Please visit http://www.legacyforhealth.org/PDF/srnttravelscholarship2011.pdf.
for application documents and further details.

Thanks.


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