Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice - Part 23. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world's population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation. | Factors Facilitating or Impeding Collaboration Among TPC Members 201 not provided them with any take-home products and information that they could immediately use in their professional roles and that their time and energy were only benefiting the university scientists. Several months passed before a seventh TPC conference was convened. The tone at that final meeting in contrast to the sixth conference was once again decidedly positive and optimistic as members were invited to work together toward refining a draft of the TPC Research and Policy Brief which had been drafted by a subgroup of TPC members between the sixth and seventh Also a new TPC Grants-in-Aid Program was announced at the seventh conference and community members of the TPC were invited to apply for consulting funds to be used toward the development and implementation of tobacco control programs initiated by their respective organizations. Thus by the end of the seventh TPC conference members began to envision a tangible pathway the widespread distribution of the Research and Policy Brief to legislators and health policy organizations through which their collaborative efforts over the two-year project period would be translated into a specific tobacco control strategy. Collaborative Outcomes Accomplishment of Stated Goals Overall the UCI TTURC Tobacco Policy Consortium TPC was successful in accomplishing the major goals of the consortium as outlined in the proposal to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. First the TPC was established and sustained over the two-year project period. Approximately twenty-five community decision makers and five TTURC scientists participated in each of the seven TPC conferences. The consortium was unique in its interdisciplinary interprofessional and multisectoral composition with various sectors of the community including educational and public health organizations represented. Second new research findings emerging from the UCI TTURC were collectively .
