STAR Program Curriculum

**Foundations in Research**
Speaker	Topic
Dr. John Balmes	Who can be a researcher? Designing a research question
Dr. Mark Fuster	What is bias? How do you design a study?
Dr. Atul Malhotra	Write everything down – Why documentation in research is critical
Dr. Alexia Perryman	How to present your research goals and final conclusions
Howard Chang, Caitlyn Truong, and Samvel Gaboyan	Data organization and Data presentation
Howard Chang and Dr. Atul Malhotra	Making a figure set for a manuscript
Dr. Le Xu	Ethics in research
Dr. Alexia Perryman	How to write an abstract

**Foundations in Community Advocacy**
Speaker	Topic
Dr. Tim Morris	What is advocacy?
Dr. Jacob Bailey	Planning a community advocacy project
Gary Ewart	Current tobacco advocacy actions and tactics
Dr. Enid Neptune	Dr. Neptune’s road to tobacco advocacy, tobacco research and tobacco policy work
Dr. Philippe Montgrain	Debrief ALA Lung Force Walk and Discuss ideas for events that may work for your own communities
Dr. Karen Beard	Smoking Cessation and Dr. Beard's road to becoming a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist
Dr. Mary Rice	Advocacy at the national level
Dr. Tim Morris	How to engage with communities that are not your own

**History and Important Background**
Speaker	Topic
Dr. Kristen Emory	Unethical events in research
Dr. Laura Crotty Alexander	Origins of tobacco use
Dr. Mark Myers	Treating tobacco use and dependence
Dr. Frank Leone	Tobacco policy at the national level
Dr. Kristen Emory	How and why marginalized populations were targeted by the tobacco industry
Dr. Laura Crotty Alexander	Analysis of tobacco ads and tobacco control ads