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Nakkash will lead the new project which will create a tobacco control regional research network
Jump to full article: American University of Beirut (AUB) (lb), 2010-01-15
Intro: The AUB Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB -TCRG) has just received a two-year grant of $198,258 (US) from the International Development Research Center-Research for International Tobacco Control (IDRC-RITC) to support tobacco control research, dissemination, and networking in Lebanon and the region.
Housed in the Faculty of Health Sciences's Center for Research on Population and Health and led by Assistant Professor Rima Nakkash, the project will use the grant to support the dissemination of information on the local level, the translation of its findings into policy, and the development of a tobacco control regional research network.
At the local level, research will build support for policy change. Dissemination, with the support of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs will, for example, target lay persons on the effects of narghile smoking on health, and policy makers on best evidence for tobacco control policies in order to contribute, potentially, towards moving policy debate to the forefront of the national agenda.
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