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Research Priorities

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In an effort to expand global research capacity, a partnership between the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) has begun to fill the gaps in global evidence concerning the economics of tobacco and tobacco control. Commendably, country-level and regional analyses has been supported by these organizations in growing number of low and middle-income countries. As these efforts have grown, the need to provide a mechanism to coordinate these activities has also grown. As a result, the International Tobacco Evidence Network (ITEN) was established. ITEN’s primary aim is to maintain a formal network of economists, epidemiologists, social scientists and other tobacco control experts able to provide rapid, policy-relevant research on country-level, regional or international tobacco control issues. Through this effort, as well as personalized technical assistance available to researchers via the website’s ResearchForum, ITEN is working to build and expand capacity for global policy-relevant research.

• Facilitate communication among researchers and tobacco control experts.     • Promote cooperation in order to strengthen the capacity to manage research.     • Disseminate existing research-based knowledge, and monitor tobacco control research activities with an international aspect.     • Encourage colleagues in low- and middle-income countries to undertake interdisciplinary analyses of tobacco, provide them with both technical and strategic advice, and help them to identify research priorities. Initiate tobacco control research projects with international aspect.