Our Vision
Managed by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Tobacco Watcher provides real-time monitoring and analysis of global tobacco-related news and policies. It leverages artificial intelligence to track trends, generate alerts, and perform in-depth analyses on tobacco control topics, offering valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and public health advocates.
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An Analysis Engine Fueled by Data
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.
Search for ArticlesOur Founders
Joanna Cohen
Dr. Cohen (she/her) is the Bloomberg Professor of Disease Prevention, director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, and Chair of the department of Health, Behavior & Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She conducts research and capacity building to inform and advance interventions to eliminate tobacco-caused death and disease.
John W. Ayers
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
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.
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.
Acknowledgements
A project of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This work was supported with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use (bloomberg.org).