The Initiative for the Study and Implementation of Systems (ISIS) Stephen Marcus, PhD Project Officer, NCI Tobacco Control Research Branch Pamela I. Clark, PhD Task Leader, Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation

ISIS Recognizes… The complexity of systems for tobacco control, and how they fit within the larger public health context of outcomes such as reduced morbidity and mortality. An environment which has, in and of itself, become a system. A growing need to better integrate research and practice

ISIS Apply systems thinking methodologies to practices in tobacco control Contribute to transdisciplinary integration Facilitate development of ongoing structures and processes for effective transdisciplinary collaboration

ISIS Create cyberinfrastructure (toBIG) to enable: Transdisciplinariness Transdisciplinariness Sociological transition from a physical to a virtual research community Sociological transition from a physical to a virtual research community Data integration (software & organizational challenges) Data integration (software & organizational challenges) More efficient growth & management of networks More efficient growth & management of networks