Table 2 ICE Project Objectives, Outcomes and Sample Indicators

Build a pan-Canadian tobacco control research network

Increase interaction & engagement of tobacco control researchers to increase research capacity & social capital

Perception of engagement and research capacity enhancement

Use of ICE-PRN resources and participation in activities (e.g., website, seed grants, newsletter, learning opportunities program)

Develop equitable capacity within and across Canada

Number of provinces/territories engaged in network

Number of cross-provincial seed grant teams

Number and location of learning opportunity exchanges

Build mechanisms for knowledge exchange and impact

Increase personal productivity of tobacco control researchers

ICE-PRN related grant proposals, publications and presentations

Develop & support connections with policy makers

Perceived effectiveness of connections

Extent, pattern & depth of interaction between network members

Create a process to draw investigators and institutions to fill expertise gaps in the research program and strategically build research capacity

Increase number and breadth of researchers, trainees in tobacco control research

Number of additional universities/institutional affiliations

Number of new investigator/trainee affiliations

Breadth of perspectives (i.e., disciplines, sectors and geographic regions represented)

Support a training platform for mutual learning exchange and productivity among researchers, trainees, and decision makers

Participation in and perceived value of ICE-PRN activities

Number of participants in ICE-PRN activities

Perceived knowledge and skills acquired as a result of participation

Improve access to data by creating a national data repository for tobacco-related data

Create data repository to help store and share tobacco control data

Number of data sets available

Number of investigators/researchers who deposit data

Number of peer reviewed papers/theses published based on data from data repository