About the China Seven Cities Study

Much of the PR TTAURC’s work is done in concert with the China Seven Cities Study, an ambitious longitudinal investigation of tobacco use and lifestyles in seven of China’s most populace urban areas:  Harbin and Shenyang in the northeast, Wuhan in central China, Chengdu and Kunming in the southwest, and Hangzhou and Qingdao in the coast regions.

Dr. C. Anderson Johnson is director and principal investigator of both the PR TTAURC and the CSCS.  He leads a consortium consisting of the School of Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University, the Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research at the University of Southern California; the Health Bureaus, Centers for Disease Control, and Institute of Health Education in seven cities; the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Peking University; and at least one university in each of the seven participating provinces.  The municipal government, Health Bureau, and Education Committee in each city provide additional support.