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AUB team gets funding to help research control of tobacco use 

The American University of Beirut Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB -TCRG) received a two-year grant of $198,258 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, a university statement said on Tuesday.

Housed in the Faculty of Health Sciences' 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 at 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 the public on the effects of narghileh smoking on health, and policy makers on best practice for tobacco control policies in order to contribute, potentially, toward moving the policy debate to the forefront of the national agenda.

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