 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Frances Stillman, EdD, Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Room W 6027, Baltimore, MD 21205, 410 614-5378, fstillma@jhsph.edu
The growing number of partners involved in supporting tobacco control research throughout the world makes mechanisms for global coordination increasingly important. Currently, there is no global facilitator or institutional arrangements to facilitate collaboration and cooperation between different funding agencies and/or tobacco control researchers in the field. As a result, there is a lack of reliable indicators to assess how and where international investments in tobacco control research are being made and there is no central clearing house for collecting and sharing research findings. This lack of information sharing makes it impossible to evaluate whether or not as a group funding agencies are meeting researcher and/or policy needs in countries. Without the ability to accurately assess how their project fits in with the other tobacco control activities going on around it, funding agencies and researchers are unable assess a project’s effectiveness and usefulness. The network will enable funding agencies and researchers to identify how their projects fit within the broader tobacco control research environment determine where tobacco control research investments have been made in all regions of the world, identify key partners and build collaborative relationships, and share key resources and tools to improve the overall conduct and applicability of tobacco control research. This presentation will discuss the formation of the network and discuss how this can be a tool to link researchers with tobacco control practitioners and advocates.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.