THE ORGANIZATION:

• Truth Initiative is the nation’s leading nonprofit public health organization dedicated to preventing youth and young adult nicotine addiction and empowering quitting for all.


• Through groundbreaking research, policy leadership, youth engagement, and innovative public education campaigns, Truth Initiative has played a transformative role in reducing tobacco use across the United States.
• As the addiction landscape evolves, Truth Initiative is expanding its scientific focus beyond tobacco and nicotine to better understand the broader ecosystem of substance use and addiction, behavioral health, emerging nicotine products, cannabis use, and the growing challenge of polysubstance use among youth and young adults.
• Truth Initiative is also expanding its portfolio of externally funded research through partnerships with federal agencies, foundations, and academic institutions.

SCIENTIFIC AMBITION: