SPEAKER and EXHIBITOR at the 27th Annual Smoker Friendly Conference & Tobacco Festival! Broomfield, CO • KEYNOTE SPEAKER sharing valuable...

ARAC & SYSTECH WEBINAR REPLAY • DECEMBER 2022 Featuring Dave DeJean, Director of Business Development, Systech + Eric Hawk, Anti-Illicit...

"Dissecting their Drives" article written by Jessica Parker-Zdinak Ph.D. and published by Tobacco Reporter (JULY 2023), Zdinak focuses on...

Building on several years of success, NEXT GEN brings together key business leaders from the FDA, ENDS and tobacco industry across the US...

Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum • APRIL 2023 - IN FOCUS: TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION Drawing on behavioral and consumer insights to encourage...

Featuring keynote addresses by FDA CTP Director Dr. Brian King and Office of Science's Dr. Todd Cecil, the goal of this program was to...

I hope you can join me for an hour while we talk about how to protect your brand, products, and consumers. This is such an important topic, and FDA was front and center in hearing our message. I hope industry takes the active role in ensuring brand and product security.

In case you missed Dr. Zdinak's talk at TSRC, here's the presentation. Some points to highlight are: Why industry must recognize the difference between basic vs. applied behavioral science research, and understand how FDA's mindset impacts their expectations of research in your PMTAs and MRTPAs. FDA expects industry applicants to "... select appropriate study personnel for TPPI* studies. …involved in the design, implementation, and analysis of the TPPI study who have sufficie

There are scientists everywhere we go. I am biased in my opinion, but I believe that behavioral scientists have one of the hardest jobs of all time. Whether our job is to predict behavior, understand behavior, or change behavior, our research sample is the PERSON and we all know how difficult people can be. 😊 At ARAC, we are constantly reviewing research published within the scientific community. Frequently we review behavioral science research that has gaps in the generatio

O Owning a business takes guts, tears, sweat, and uncertainty. It can also bring great satisfaction in knowing that your mission and goal serves a purpose greater than your own. It was my honor and privilege for ARAC to sponsor part of renovating a local school gymnasium and cafeteria. Currently the students wait outside the gym for the gym class to finish before going into eat their lunch. This renovation will allow for a new gym space as well as a separate lunch area for st

Every day we have a choice of gaining knowledge in areas we may otherwise be less familiar with or staying where we are. Are you one to seek growth opportunities, or do you like to remain in the comfort of "homeostasis" - where you have always been? I think we all have a basic instinct to remain where we have always been, because our bodies, minds, and physiology knows that we have survived, and continue to survive there. But I like to believe that nothing good or worth havin