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Global Health Matters

November - December, 2007 | Volume 6, Issue 6

NIH Awards Nearly $17 Million for Projects Focused on Reducing Tobacco-Related Deaths in Developing Nations

Tobacco-related illnesses will claim ten million lives annually by 2025 if current trends persist--surpassing the combined toll from AIDS, tuberculosis, automobile accidents, maternal mortality, homicide and suicide--according to the World Health Organization.

To address this public health urgency, NIH recently awarded $17 million to fund 11 research and capacity building projects that focus on tobacco-related issues. The projects are being funded through Fogarty's International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program, with major support from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

"These research projects are critical to our understanding of the growing tobacco burden in developing nations, so that we can identify effective interventions that will reduce the toll of this costly and deadly epidemic," according to Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass.

The awards support five years of funding for projects that involve both pursuing observational, intervention and policy research of local importance as well as building regional capacity in epidemiological and behavioral research, prevention, treatment, communications, health services and policy research.

The program is intended to promote international cooperation between investigators in the U.S. and other high-income countries pursuing research programs on tobacco control, and scientists and institutions in developing countries, where tobacco consumption is a public health problem.

2007 International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Awards
Centre for Global Health Research (Ontario, Canada) Measuring tobacco mortality within the million death study in India	Duke University (Durham, N.C.) The political economy of tobacco control in Southeast Asia
Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY) (New Delhi, India) Advancing cessation of tobacco in vulnerable Indian tobacco-consuming youth	Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) Harnessing the power of TXT messaging to promote smoking cessation in Turkey
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) Epidemiology and intervention research for tobacco control in China	Public Health Institute (Oakland, Calif.) Tobacco control policy analysis and intervention evaluation in China and Indonesia
University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, Ala.) Network for tobacco control among women in Parana, Brazil	University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.) Building capacity of tobacco cessation in India and Indonesia
University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.) Tobacco control research and training in South America	University of Memphis (Memphis, Tenn.) Responding to the changing tobacco epidemic in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Increasing Capacity for Tobacco Research in Hungary

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