back Enhancing Transdisciplinary Communications For Nicotine Dependence: Risk and Recovery Across Generations D B. Abrams, Ph.D. Professor Brown University This project will establish a communications component to Brown's NIH-funded Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC). Its aims are to advance transdisciplinary research, inform the tobacco control research literature, and to accelerate policy agendas to support the rapid diffusion of effective and efficient treatment and prevention interventions. Specific areas of focus include a) the transmission of nicotine dependence across generations, b) the consequences of in-utero tobacco exposure, c) the implications of stepped-care approaches to cessation. This communications project has four main objectives. First, it will work to enhance communications and foster transdisciplinary collaboration within the Brown TTURC, including scientists at Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Brandeis. Second, it will enhance communications between this TTURC center and the other six TTURCS, including identification of common areas of interest. Third, it will facilitate communications within the broader tobacco control, research, and policy communities by developing a two-way dialogue with scientific groups and national tobacco-related networks and societies. And, fourth, it will work to facilitate communications to the broader community at the local, state, and national levels, including stakeholders in health care delivery, health insurance, legislators and policy makers, and members of the community.