KidsAct! Anti-Tobacco Advocacy Program Evaluation

Brief Project Description

Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Principal Investigator: Caroline Sparks, PhD
Biostatistician: Samuel J. Simmens, PhD
The KidsAct! educational program teaches middle school students skills such as letter writing and persuasive communication in the context of anti-tobacco advocacy. This experimental program has been implemented at a number of middle schools, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region. The program evaluation project is designed to quantitatively measure the impact of the program on its goal of increasing interest, skills, and actions in anti-tobacco advocacy in the population.

Faculty

• Samuel Simmens, PhD, MA
  Associate Research Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Statistics
• Caroline Sparks, PhD, MA
  Associate Professor of Prevention and Community Health

Institutes & Centers

• Biostatistics Center Medical Center Unit
• Prevention Research Center

Department

• Epidemiology and Biostatistics