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Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building ProgramUpdated
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News
Release
September 25, 2002
Fogarty International Center Announces First Awards for
International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity
Building Program
Summary
This new program supports trans-disciplinary research and
capacity building projects that address the burden of tobacco
consumption in low- and/or middle-income nations by 1)
pursuing observational, intervention and policy research of
local importance and 2) building capacity in these region in
epidemiological and behavioral research, prevention,
treatment, communications, health services and policy
research. Both research and capacity building must be included in all
applications.
The
program is designed to promote international cooperation
between investigators in the United States and other
high-income nation(s) pursuing research programs on tobacco
control, and scientists and institutions in low- and/or
middle-income nation(s), where tobacco consumption is a
current or anticipated public health urgency.
The major portion of the research must be conducted in
a low- and/or middle-income nation(s), and greater that 50
percent of the direct costs requested must be used in a low-
and/or middle-income nation(s) or "in-country" for
either research and/or capacity strengthening of foreign
institutions.
Collaborating
Partners
NIH Institutes and
Centers
U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Canadian
Institutes of Health Research
World Health
Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative (WHO-TFI)
Initial
Awards
The
following researchers are recipients of
International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity
Building Program awards:
Dr.
David Brook of Mount Sinai School of Medicine will work with
collaborators from the Medical Research Council of South
Africa to study disease-related determinants of changes in
tobacco use in South African adolescents.
The study is unique in its longitudinal design, with
in-depth interpersonal, cultural, and behavioral data
available about South African youth. It intends to strengthen research in this area in both the
United States and Africa.
Dr.
Linda Ferry, Loma Linda University School of Public Health,
will work with collaborators from the National Center for
Health Promotion, Cambodia; Centre of Information and
Education for Health, Lao PDR; and the Adventist Development
Relief Agency in Cambodia and Lao PDR. The
team will conduct a transdisciplinary, competency-based Global
Tobacco Control Methods certificate program to develop
tobacco-control leadership skills in health professionals.
Research will monitor tobacco-use prevalence and
attitudes toward prevention counseling, estimate prevalence of
tobacco use, and assist health professionals in designing a
5-year national research plan.
Dr.
Teh-wei Hu of the University of California, Berkeley, together
with collaborators from The World Bank, the Chinese Ministry
of Health, Sichuan University, and Fudan University, will
build research capacity in China in the economics of tobacco
control. Studies
will examine the impact of an additional tobacco tax, economic
costs of smoking, and cost-effectiveness of tobacco-control
interventions. These
results will inform policymakers in China’s provincial and
central governments.
Dr.
Ebenezer Israel, University of Maryland School of Medicine,
and colleagues in Cairo and Baltimore will work with
collaborators from the Egyptian Ministry of Health and
Population and Georgetown University to create a new smoking
prevention research institute in Egypt to establish research
and capacity building projects to reduce tobacco use.
Dr.
Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto, will collaborate with
colleagues from three institutes in India — Epidemiological
Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro
Sciences, and Institute of Health Sciences.
The project will expand India’s Sample Registration
System, the primary system for collection of Indian mortality
data, to obtain reliable estimates of mortality from tobacco
smoking and chewing by age, gender, and socioeconomic group.
The project will also build capacity within India’s
surveillance system to monitor the growing tobacco epidemic,
evaluate the effectiveness of control policies, and provide
reliable data to policymakers.
Dr.
Gary King and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University will
collaborate with three universities in Africa — Cape Town
University in South Africa, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in
Senegal, and University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania — to
investigate tobacco control among youths.
Two Centers of Excellence will be established in
Africa, regional networks of researchers will be formed,
fellowships will be established, and exchanges between Centers
of Excellence will be fostered for research on tobacco use
among youths.
Dr.
Harry Lando and colleagues at the University of Minnesota will
lead a collaborative effort with the University of Arizona,
the University of Missouri, Acutha Menon Centre for Health
Sciences in India, and the Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia
to build tobacco research capacity and promote smoking
cessation in India and Indonesia.
Dr.
Deborah Ossip-Klein, University of Rochester, will work with
collaborators from the Dominican Republic to increase tobacco
awareness and cessation activities in the Dominican Republic
through the existing Little Intelligent Communities (LINCOS)
units that offer wireless Internet access to state-of-the-art
health education, agricultural science, and global economic
information.
Dr.
Eliseo Perez-Stable of the University of California, San
Francisco, will work with collaborators from the University of
Jujuy in Argentina to further knowledge of smoking behavior of
adolescents. The
study will include a longitudinal school-based survey among
high school youth of two ethnic groups (Kolla and European
descent) in the province of Jujuy to assess the prevalence of
smoking behavior, as well as the predisposing, reinforcing,
and facilitating factors associated with smoking acquisition
within this population.
Dr.
Cheryl Perry and colleagues at the University of Minnesota
will work with collaborators in India to conduct a randomized,
multi-component, community intervention trial in four cities
and 56 schools in India focused on preventing the onset and
reducing the prevalence of tobacco use among adolescents in
grades 6 to 9. They
will use an intervention system called Project HRIDAY that
involves classroom-based behavioral curricula, parental
education, media advocacy, peer leadership, and community
linkage programs.
Dr.
Richard Peto of the Clinical Trial Service Unit in Oxford,
United Kingdom, will collaborate with colleagues at the
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Russia. The project will study death rates among approximately two
million people in six large study populations in Russia.
The goal is to determine to what extent tobacco is
causing deaths from particular diseases and to ensure that
data from these studies is available to inform future public
health strategies and other research strategies.
Dr.
Ken Resnicow and colleagues at Emory University, the Medical
Research Council of South Africa, the University of Natal, and
the University of Cape Town will conduct a randomized trial
comparing the effectiveness of two approaches to tobacco-use
prevention in a multiethnic sample of South African youth in
grades 5 to 7. One
of the interventions will be based on a social skills/peer
resistance model, the other on a Harm Minimization model.
The team will also conduct a comprehensive
capacity-building initiative to enhance knowledge of tobacco
control among South African educators, clinicians,
researchers, and policymakers.
Dr.
Jonathon Samet and colleagues at The Johns Hopkins University
will collaborate with partners conducting tobacco-control
research and training programs at the Chinese Academy of
Medicine, the National Cancer Institute of Brazil, and the
National Institute for Public Health in Mexico.
These programs will focus on an intervention in China
to reduce women and children’s environmental tobacco smoke
exposure at home; a survey on determinants of youth smoking in
Brazil; and a study of smoking-attributable deaths and
diseases and the associated costs of smoking-related diseases
in Mexico.
Dr.
Kenneth Ward and colleagues at the University of Memphis will
work with Virginia Commonwealth University and Aleppo School
of Medicine in Syria to establish a center for the study,
treatment, and prevention of tobacco use in the Eastern
Mediterranean region. The
Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies will serve as a resource for
tobacco-control efforts, including epidemiological study,
clinical research, and prevention and cessation intervention
development, and as a focal point for dissemination of
information about tobacco-control efforts in the Eastern
Mediterranean region.
Contacts
Fogarty International Center
Aron Primack, M.D.
Division of International Training and Research
Building 31, Room B2C39
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: (301) 496-1653
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email: primacka@mail.nih.gov
National Cancer Institute
Michele Bloch, M.D., Ph.D.
Tobacco Control Research Branch Behavioral Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
6130 Executive Plaza Blvd., Room 4032
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 496-8584
Fax: (301) 496-8675
Email: blochm@mail.nih.gov
National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development
Lynne Haverkos, M.D., M.P.H.
Center for Research for Mothers and Children (CRMC)
6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 4B05B
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510
Telephone: (301) 435-6881
Fax: (301) 480-7773
Email: haverkol@mail.nih.gov
National Institute of Mental
Health
Peter Muehrer, Ph.D.
Division of Mental Disorders, Behavioral Research and AIDS
National Institutes of Health
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6189, MSC 9615
Bethesda, MD 20892-9615
Telephone: (301) 443-4708
Fax: (301) 480-2920
Email: pmuehrer@mail.nih.gov
National Institute of Nursing
Research
Janice Phillips, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Building 45, Room 3AN12 45 Center Drive, MSC 6300
Bethesda, MD 20892-6300
Telephone: (301) 594-6152
Fax: (301) 480-8260
Email: phillipsj@mail.nih.gov
National Institute on Drug
Abuse
Steve Gust, Ph.D.
International Program
6001 Executive Blvd., Room 5274
Bethesda, MD 20892
Telephone: (301) 443-6480
Fax: (301) 443-9127
Email: sgust@mail.nih.gov
Archive
NIH
News
Release June 27, 2001
Fogarty International Center Announces New International
Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program
In
the News — July
10, 2001, Washington Fax
WHO/NIH initiative offers $17 million in grants under new
International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity
Building Program
The announcement
for this program first appeared in the NIH Guide for Grants and
Contracts on June 25, 2001: RFA
TW-02-005.
Letter
to applicants who submitted a Letter of Intent in response to
the RFA - September 28, 2001
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