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Global Health MattersNovember - December, 2007 | Volume 6, Issue 6
NIH Awards Nearly $17 Million for Projects Focused on Reducing Tobacco-Related Deaths in Developing NationsTobacco-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.
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