Our Vision
The global tobacco control landscape is changing more quickly than ever. In this fast paced world Tobacco Watcher helps you to stay on top of these changes by finding, analyzing and delivering the world’s tobacco-related news. Powered by cutting-edge innovations in machine learning and artificial intelligence, Tobacco Watcher empowers you to combat global tobacco use.
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Tobacco Watcher rests on the largest assembly of data in the history of tobacco control. The AI behind Tobacco Watcher has investigated more than 25 million news articles, including news sources powered by NewsApi.org and reviewed billions of tweets.
Who We Support
Tobacco Watcher is designed to make media monitoring easier and more effective, thereby informing and improving global tobacco control. Tobacco control advocates, investigators, and students spend can spend hours searching through the same news articles to find tobacco-related content they care about. Tobacco Watcher now does the searching for you.
Moreover, by classifying tobacco-related media by content and location, in twenty-three languages, you can explore far more of the tobacco control landscape than was previously possible. As a result, advocates, policy makers and researchers can spend much more of their time analyzing instead of searching for data.
Who We Are
Tobacco Watcher was born out of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our mission is to prevent death and disease from tobacco products by supporting effective tobacco control interventions with science.
Joanna E. Cohen Ph.D., M.H.Sc
Cohen leads innovations on the implementation and evaluation of global tobacco control. She is the Bloomberg Professor of Disease Prevention at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
John W. Ayers Ph.D., M.A.
Dr. Ayers is a leader in public health surveillance, harnessing big data to get the public back in public health. He is a Burroughs Wellcome Innovator in regulatory science and thought leader on data science in public health.
Mark Dredze Ph.D.
Dr. Dredze is the John C. Malone Associate Professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He is an internationally recognized authority on data science within health domains.
Our Funders
Tobacco Watcher is funded by the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use through a grant to
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.