Current Partners
The Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan provides a unified vision and clear priorities to reduce the burden of commercial tobacco use and improve health across the state. While some strategies are already in motion, much of the work is just beginning and full of potential.
Together, we’re shaping a tobacco free future for all Floridians. We can reach our goals by working together, coordinating activities, and collaborating with communities most impacted by tobacco use.
Current Partners
The Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan provides a unified vision and clear priorities to reduce the burden of commercial tobacco use and improve health across the state. While some strategies are already in motion, much of the work is just beginning and full of potential.
Together, we’re shaping a tobacco free future for all Floridians. We can reach our goals by working together, coordinating activities, and collaborating with communities most impacted by tobacco use.
Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan Workgroups
Organizations aligned with the Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan are taking on expanded roles by joining priority-focused workgroups.
The Florida Tobacco Strategic Plan is supported by dedicated workgroups focused on the plan’s priorities. These groups meet regularly to share ideas, tackle challenges, and coordinate efforts to advance the goals and objectives of the plan.
Hover over each workgroup name to view the organizations contributing to the plan.
Member Organizations
Promote healthy environments so that young people can achieve lifelong good health. 
Protect children and save lives from the #1 cause of preventable death: tobacco use. 
Working to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco. 
To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, & community efforts. 
Eliminate addiction through prevention, advocacy, treatment, and recovery support. 
Protect our kids from the dangers of flavored e-cigarettes and the predatory practices of Big Tobacco. 
To develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to strengthen community capacity for sustained disease prevention and health promotion. 
Mobilize, educate, and equip Florida youth to revolt against and de-glamorize the tobacco industry. Member Organizations
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 
Save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. 
Protect all residents from exposure to harmful second and thirdhand smoke in their homes. 
Enable our students to lead and influence the next generation and beyond for economic, cultural, and societal benefit.
Working to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco. 
Represent and advocate for the interests of the Florida multifamily rental housing industry.
Work to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco.
Offer care coordination services to all pregnant women and infants regardless of their socioeconomic status to ensure that early care is directed to those families where there is the best chance of preventing or minimizing adverse outcomes.
To protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county & community efforts.
Prevent disease of environmental origin. Member Organizations
The Florida State University College of Medicine will educate and develop exemplary physicians who practice patient-centered health care, discover and advance knowledge, and are responsive to community needs, especially through service to elder, rural, minority, and underserved populations. 
To improve the quality of healthcare by providing innovative solutions that enhance patient outcomes. 
To inspire, create, recruit, and sustain/retain a diverse and broad range of health professionals to practice in communities where the need is greatest. Member Organizations
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 
To be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
Save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. 
To promote Smokefree air as the National norm through Prevention education programs, information dissemination, technical assistance, and capacity building training.
Protect children and save lives from the #1 cause of preventable death: tobacco use.
Working to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco.
Protect our kids from the dangers of flavored e-cigarettes and the predatory practices of Big Tobacco. 
To improve overall community health through community-based wellness and prevention programs, including reducing the number of deaths from nicotine addiction and tobacco use, reducing the health consequences of inactivity and obesity, and supporting initiatives that promote healthy lifestyles through research, education, and prevention. Member Organizations
To expand and support academic and research programs by promoting the research, scholarly, creative and collaborative activities of faculty and students; enhancing the research infrastructure of the University to support the community in an ever-changing world; encouraging national and international partnerships for workforce development and commercialization of research endeavors; translating university discovery and innovations into viable business opportunities and economic development; and engaging our communities in mutually beneficial research, education and outreach programs. 
Identifies biological, social, and personality factors that lead to alcohol, e-cigarette, and drug use among adolescents and young adults. 
Inspires groundbreaking research and education through an academic environment that influences policy and promotes healthy living in communities near and far. 
Preserves, expands, and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology, arts, humanities, and professions. 
To contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. 
Our mission is to create positive social impact by providing tailored data-centric solutions that move public health initiatives forward. 
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. 
The University of Central Florida College of Medicine educates and inspires individuals to be exemplary physicians and scientists, leaders in medicine, scholars in discovery, and adopters of innovative technology to improve the health and well-being of all. Our patient-centered mission is achieved by outstanding medical care and services, groundbreaking research, and leading edge medical and biomedical education in an environment enriched by diversity 
To improve access to primary health care in north Florida’s medically underserved areas through academic-community-educational partnerships designed to recruit, train, and retain community-based health professionals. 
To bring scientific evidence into clinical practice and the community to improve population health and achieve health equity. 
To understand tobacco carcinogenesis, build cancer risk, stratification and develop preventive interventions with the ultimate research goal of facilitating cancer prevention as a key pillar to support effective cancer management. 
The Florida Statewide AHEC Consortium seeks to reduce health disparities across the state by increasing the diversity of the health care workforce, by providing interdisciplinary training opportunities for health professions students and clinicians and by enhancing the skills of practicing health professionals through continuing education.
Advancing the public’s health by developing a talented pool of public health leaders through education, research, and practice Workgroup Member Spotlight
Barry Hummel, MD
Professional Trajectory
As a Pediatrician, I was looking for a more efficient way to make an impact on the health of children than office-based primary care. When I relocated to Florida in 2005, I reconnected with a medical school classmate, a Pulmonologist working on a tobacco cessation project. I agreed to help him with that project if he would help me to work on youth tobacco prevention projects, and we started our non-profit foundation in 2006 to reduce the negative impacts of tobacco use in Florida.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
When the CDC Best Practices for Tobacco Control Programs were updated in 2014, there was more emphasis placed on policy change as a way to reduce exposure to tobacco marketing and secondhand smoke. This was not something with which I had much experience. However, it quickly became the favorite part of my work. I have worked on tobacco policy change at the local, state, and federal level, with some notable successes, particularly in the creation of smoke-free parks and beaches in Florida.
How does your work intersect with the FTSP?
As I mentioned above, our non-profit foundation was created to work on adult tobacco cessation issues, youth tobacco prevention issues, as well as secondhand smoke exposure issues for both populations. Our work aligned with the Tobacco Free Florida program, and beginning in 2008, we subcontracted with the state to conduct community-based interventions in each of these areas. As the years passed, the goals of those projects shifted to include a larger emphasis on local policy change to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure. Because of this, my work has intersected with every work group that was created by the FTSP, especially the groups working on Youth and Young Adult Tobacco Initiation, Secondhand Smoke and Electronic Vapor Product Aerosol, and Nicotine and Tobacco Cessation. However, one of the tasks of the FTSP was to work on the creation of a statewide coalition to work on policy change initiatives by advocating with state lawmakers and state agencies. I was honored to be asked to participate in Workgroup 5 that created the new Florida Tobacco Prevention Coalition (FTPC).
Benefits of being involved with the FTSP workgroup
This was a wonderful opportunity to work with other organizations that recognized the need to be better organized as we looked for legislative solutions to the health consequences of tobacco use in Florida. We are stronger together, and the work of this group will have a far-reaching impact on the long-term health of Floridians.
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Join the Movement for a Healthier Florida
Your voice and experience can directly shape the strategies that guide this statewide plan. Workgroups bring together committed partners who share ideas, solve problems, and drive real progress in communities affected by tobacco use.
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