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Over the past year, researchers at the University of Oklahoma have earned approximately $8 million in National Institutes of Health funding to study multiple smoking cessation approaches, including the use of mobile health technologies. The researchers are part of the TSET Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC), a program of OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center.

Dr. Motolani Adedipe (nee Ogunsanaya) was recently selected as one of the 2025 Achievers Under 40 honorees by the Journal Record. This recognition highlights individual leaders under the age of 40, who are building networks that focus on ways to make Oklahoma and even better place to live and work.

The 2025 Colloquium offers an opportunity for students, trainees, public health professionals, faculty, and community members to present studies that are either completed or works in progress.

People with HIV tend to use tobacco at more than twice the rate of the general population, and smoking is among the leading causes of illness and death among people with HIV. Additional data from the National Center for HIV/AIDS and STIs of Laos indicate that 61% to 80% of men with HIV in that country smoke cigarettes.

In 2022, researchers from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences  and the University of North Texas Health Science Center published findings from a pilot trial of a mobile application to help reduce drinking among adults experiencing homelessness. Now, with funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the team will deploy a field test of the app’s efficacy with 600 participants in Oklahoma City and Dallas/Ft. Worth.