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Mapping The Structure Of The Hookah Community In A College TownSmith, Thalia V.; Barnett, Tracey E.; McCarty, ChristopherOverlapping Personal NetworksAdolescents, Social Networks, Behavioral Networks, Interview, Egonet, TobaccoSAT.AM1Hookah use is a growing public health concern on college campuses nationwide. This study was conducted to first assess the prevalence of hookah use on theUniversity of Florida campus. Once prevalence was established, a social network analysis was conducted of students who indicated current hookah use tounderstand the social situations in which this product is used. Utilizing a face‐to‐face intercept survey, 1,203 students were surveyed on the University ofFlorida campus. Of those surveyed, 131 (10.9%) reported smoking hookah in the past 30 days. During the second phase of the study, 74 (56.5%) of the hookahsmokers were recruited to complete a 45 item alter Egonet interview. Among the name interpreters were whether the alter smoked hookah. The 74 personalnetwork interviews were merged by name and the respondent was added as an alter. By constraining the resulting whole network to hookah smokers, wecreated a map of the hookah community in Gainesville. We will present this map along with an analysis of the community structure and the accuracy of thisapproach.Mapping Vancouver’s Biomedical Innovation NetworkLander, BrynAcademic and Scientific NetworksBibliometrics, Scientific Networks, Innovation Networks, R&D, Co‐authorship Network, biomedicineTHURS.PM1Using the biomedical subfield of immunology as a case study, this presentation will explore how scientists and clinicians based in Metro Vancouver collaborate,the degree to which these collaborations are local or global, and map local collaborations onto organisational structures such as hospitals, hospital basedresearch institutes, universities, and firms. Previous research has found that both local and global contexts are important for knowledge translation.Information sharing and communication occurs through the ‘local buzz’ of face to face contact and co‐location while ‘global pipelines’ often introduce keyinformation into a local context. Comparing local and global collaboration rates will help to determine the relative importance of these collaborations whilemapping local collaborations onto organisations will determine the degree of inter organisational collaborations within Metro Vancouver. This analysis ofVancouver’s immunology community will be conducted through a bibliometric social network analysis using co‐authorship in journal articles to representcollaboration, map collaborations between individuals and organizations and trace knowledge flows. Articles published in immunology journals where“Vancouver, BC” appears in the address line of at least one author between 2004 and 2009 will be extracted from the Thomson Scientific Institute forInformation. Author addresses will identify links between organizations and will be classified as ‘local’ if Vancouver based, ‘national’ if from another Canadianlocation, and ‘global’ if from another country. Through this analysis, I seek to better understand collaborations between clinicians and scientists, hospitals,universities, and firms as well as the relative importance of global and local collaborations in immunology.