Endgame Training Course

Endgame Technical Assistance Providers

American Lung Association / Public Health Law Center

Grant Term: 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2024

Joelle Lester, Director of Commercial Tobacco Control Programs

(651) 695-7603

joelle.lester@mitchellhamline.edu

www.publichealthlawcenter.org/caltobacco

  • Provide Policy Training and Technical Assistance
  • Convene a Statewide Endgame Advisory Council
  • Conduct a Statewide Needs Assessment
  • Conduct Endgame Strategy Workshops
  • Publish Endgame Policy Briefs

University of California, San Francisco

Grant Term: 08/01/2019 - 06/30/2023

Ruth Malone, Professor Emerita and Editor-in-Chief, Tobacco Control

(451) 476-3273

ruth.malone@ucsf.edu

  • Provide Strategic Planning Training and Technical Assistance
  • Prepare Community Readiness Tools
  • Collaborate with Priority Population Coordinating Centers on Policy Tools
  • Develop and Endgame Research Agenda
  • Convene an Economic Impact Think Tank & develop Recommendations

American Heart Association

Grant Term: 11/01/2019 - 06/30/2024

Paul Knepprath, Project Director

(916) 505-3099

paulknepprath@heart.org

https://organizingtoendtobacco.org

  • Provide Community Organizing and Engagement Training and Technical Assistance
  • Provide Coalition Building and New Stakeholder Recruitment Assistance
  • Provide Social & Digital Media Tools and Training to Support Community Organizing and Engagement
  • Provide Campaign Development Assistance

Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc., dba Heluna Health

ASH – Advancing Momentum

Grant Term: 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2025

Chris Bostic, Deputy Director for Policy

(202) 659-4310

bosticc@ash.org

https://ash.org

  • Provide Communication and Messaging Technical Assistance
  • Recruit and Train Spokespersons
  • Prepare Communication Tools
  • Conduct Educational Outreach to Public Health, Health, Environmental, and Civil Rights Groups
  • Plan Earned Media Events
  • Conduct Paid Social Media Campaigns
  • Prepare Strategy Papers

University of California, Davis

Grant Term: 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2026

Catherine Dizon, Project Director

(530) 752-9951

tobaccoeval@ucdavis.edu

https://tobaccoeval.ucdavis.edu/

  • Provide Evaluation Training & Technical Assistance
  • Develop Standardized Data Collection Tools
  • Coordinate and Monitor Local End Commercial Tobacco Campaign Data Collection
  • Provide Guidance on Cleaning and Analyzing Data
  • Lend Mobile Devices for Data Collection

Tobacco Endgame Matters Podcast

Action on Smoking & Health

TEM is about identifying how we can achieve and plan for a tobacco-free California using policy and people power. In each episode, TEM hosts will engage subject matter experts to discuss niche topics within tobacco control and highlight California-specific progress and the opportunities they offer advocates. Hosted by Saoimanu Sope & Carol Maytum.

More Information

Follow ASH to ProjectSunset.Ash.org

As of June 30, 2025, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)’s official tobacco endgame media and communications services for California will conclude. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with so many dedicated public health professionals over the past five years.

 

The resources on this website will be updated and maintained on ASH’s new tobacco endgame website: https://ProjectSunset.ash.org.

 

Please bookmark the new website and use the same great tools and more to further your endgame work.

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