Fogarty awards $10.7M to build tobacco control and prevention research capacity in developing countries

September / October 2017 | Volume 16, Issue 5

Fogarty has awarded seven new grants to fund research on tobacco control and prevention in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), while also promoting international research collaborations between investigators in the U.S. and LMIC scientists. With support from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and Fogarty, the awards - expected to total $10.7 million over five years - were issued through Fogarty's International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program.

2017 International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Awards

• American Cancer Society
  The political economy of tobacco farming in low- and middle-income countries
  Principal investigator: Dr. Jeffrey Drope
• Emory University
  Smoke-free Air Coalitions in Georgia and Armenia: A Community Randomized Trial
  Principal investigators: Drs. Carla J. Berg and Michelle C. Kegler
• Florida International University
  Translating evidence and building capacity to support waterpipe control in the Eastern Mediterranean
  Principal investigator: Dr. Wasim Maziak
• Georgia State University
  Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of Health Interventions for Smoking Cessation in China and Vietnam
  Principal investigators: Drs. Michael Paul Eriksen and Jidong Huang
• Loma Linda University
  Building GIS Capacity into Tobacco Control Research Programs of East Asia
  Principal investigator: Dr. Pramil Nand Singh
• University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester
  mHealth Messaging to Motivate Quitline Use and Quitting (M2Q2): RCT in rural Vietnam
  Principal investigator: Dr. Thomas K. Houston
• University of Minnesota
  Analytical capacity building for the study of tobacco carcinogen exposures in India
  Principal investigators: Drs. Samir S. Khariwala, Pankaj Chaturvedi and Irina Stepanov

More Information

• Fogarty's International Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building Program
• Overview: Fogarty considers evolving global tobacco landscape
  Nov/Dec 2013 Global Health Matters
• Tobacco control information and resources from Fogarty
• Grantee news:
• NIH supports Emory tobacco control models in Eastern Europe
  Emory news, September 27, 2017
• Loma Linda University researchers awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to study tobacco control in Asia
  Loma Linda University Health news, September 19, 2017

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