Dialogue on Dissemination: A Policy Perspective
Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET

Seminar Summary

Disseminating evidence-based programs and policies requires that researchers, policy makers, and practitioners take active roles in the process. While their perspectives, systems, and practices vary, their goal remains the same: to reduce the burden of disease and move from "research to reality."

Dialogue on Dissemination: A Policy Perspective is the second in a series of three discussions that engage stakeholders across the dissemination continuum. In this series, researchers, policy makers, and cancer control practitioners highlight promising approaches and address barriers to implementing evidence-based programs and policies.

This month two policy experts will lead a discussion on how they leveraged research findings to create system and policy changes that improved public health and patient care. Dr. Michael Fiore with the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and Ms. Rebecca Kirch with the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network will provide a high level policy overview and discuss their experience using research findings to help drive policy change. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of the cyber-seminar, participants will be able to:

• Understand how policy is used as a method to disseminate research into the lives of patients and the public.
• Describe how tobacco control and pain control legislation came about as a result of new research data.
• Identify 3 challenges when developing public health policy and how to address those challenges.

Featured Presenters

Michael C. Fiore, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Rebecca A. Kirch, J.D.
Associate Director of Policy
Cancer Action Network
American Cancer Society