BackgroundIn a rapidly evolving tobacco marketplace, research and evidence-based advocacy in action can help avert public health crises and achieve landmark progress in tobacco control.1 Research in action here relates to timely scientific investigations of emerging or ongoing tobacco control milestones; evidence-based advocacy in action is focused on using emerging scientific evidence to inform urgent tobacco control efforts.
Strategic partnerships, combining tobacco control research and advocacy in action, referred to as partnership in action from hereon, involve experts aligning on tobacco control priorities while considering or generating evidence related to the unintended, intended and potential implications of tobacco control efforts.
ACS houses an intramural Surveillance and Health Equity Science research department comprised of 39 research scholars with expertise in epidemiology, public health, regulatory science, economics, statistics, tobacco control and data science; 10 of them are specialised in tobacco control research.
Below is a description of the partnership framework followed by one case study of how we have applied this framework in the recent past.
Objectives: To build and strengthen ties between tobacco control research and advocacy practitioners; inform tobacco control policies at the local, state and federal levels.

An advocacy-research collaboration model to inform evidence-based tobacco control efforts