| Organization and Web Site |
Annual Budget, US $b |
Geographic Coverage |
Mission |
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| American Cancer Society (ACS) http://www.cancer.org |
Not available |
All regions, especially middle- and low-income nations |
ACS has launched an international tobacco control program in collaboration with the International Union Against Cancer and other key partners. Primary goals include development of a broad-based cadre of international tobacco control leaders, advocates, and researchers; support for targeted, small research grants; and development of broad-based international nongovernmental organization tobacco control coalitions. |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids http://www.tobaccofreekids.org |
Not applicable |
United States |
The campaign aims to prevent tobacco use by children and youths. Although much of its efforts have focused on the United States, the campaign supports a Global Initiatives Program. |
| Department for International Development (DFID) http://www.dfid.gov.uk |
Not applicable |
Most regions of the world; the poorest countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa receive the bulk of DFID funding |
DFID aims to promote development and reduce poverty through its commitment to achieving international development targets. Commitment to tobacco control has been primarily through support of WHO and the Tobacco Free Initiative. |
| Fogarty International Center (FIC) http://www.fic.nih.gov |
3.5 million |
Currently funded projects cover a broad geographic distribution of low- and middle-income countries |
As a branch of the National Institutes of Health, FIC promotes and supports scientific research and training. FIC emphasizes international research aimed at reducing the disparities that exist in global health. FIC provides funding through institutional training grants, cooperative agreements, small research grants, fellowships, and multilateral initiatives with international organizations. |
| Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health http://www.jhsph.edu/IGTC |
1 million |
Global |
The institute’s mission is to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through research, education, and policy development. The institute collaborates on research projects that support the development of tobacco control policy and interventions, serves as an educational resource by collecting and disseminating materials and developing and offering educational programs, and synthesizes evidence in support of stronger tobacco control measures worldwide. The Institute now hosts the Global Tobacco Control Research Network. |
| International Tobacco Evidence Network (ITEN), University of Illinois, Chicago http://www.tobaccoevidence.net |
400 000 |
Southeast Asia, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, central and eastern Europe |
ITEN was established as the result of a partnership between the World Bank and WHO. ITEN’s primary aim is to maintain a formal network of economists, epidemiologists, social scientists, and other tobacco control experts to provide rapid, policy-relevant research on country-level, regional, or international tobacco control issues. |
| Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (OSH) http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco |
2.6 millionc |
All regions, with the focus on low- and middle-income countries and countries with a population of 1 billion or more |
The OSH within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the lead agency within the US federal government for tobacco use prevention and control. OSH oversees the Global Tobacco Prevention and Control Program and is a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Global Tobacco Prevention and Control. |
| Open Society Institute (OSI) http://www.soros.org |
300 000 |
Central and eastern Europe |
The OSI and its network of foundations seek to build free and open societies by supporting an array of activities dealing with the strengthening of civil society, economic reform, education at all levels, human rights, legal reform and public administration, media communications, and public health. |
| Pan American Health Association World Health Organization (PAHO) http://www.paho.org |
Not applicable |
Latin American and the Caribbean |
Its governing bodies have mandated PAHO to move aggressively to reduce the use of tobacco, emphasizing the health aspect and the high cost to countries of tobacco use. PAHO has supported World No Tobacco Day. It also has worked to support the FCTC and the World Bank report on curbing the tobacco epidemic. PAHO has developed a number of technical reports and other resources addressing the impact of tobacco in the region and making recommendations for tobacco control policy. |
| Research for International Tobacco Control (RITC) http://www.idrc.ca/ritc |
400 000 |
Main geographic focus on Latin America and the Caribbean; West Africa, East Africa, central and southern Africa; South Asia and Southeast Asia |
RITC’s mission is to create a strong research, funding, and knowledge base for the development of effective tobacco control policies and programs that will minimize the threat of tobacco production and consumption to health and human development in low- and middle-income countries. |
| Rockefeller Foundation http://www.rockfound.org |
2 million |
Southeast Asia (including Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia) |
The aim of the Trading Tobacco for Health initiative is to support efforts to reduce the health burden of tobacco on the poor in developing countries. By building local research capacity, the initiative seeks to enable developing countries to respond to the challenge of tobacco on their own terms for the long term. |
| Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) http://www.srnt.org |
600 000 |
Primarily North America, western Europe, and Australia, although membership is increasing in developing countries |
SRNT’s mission is to stimulate the generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations—from molecular to societal. SRNT achieves this by sponsoring scientific meetings and publications fostering the exchange of information on the biological, behavioral, social, and economic effects of nicotine; by encouraging scientific research on public health efforts for the prevention and treatment of nicotine and tobacco use; and by providing the means by which various legislative, governmental, regulatory, and other public agencies and the ethical drug industry can obtain expert advice and consultation. |
| Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/Crosslink.jsp |
320 000 |
South Africa (Women’s Health Project), Brazil, Malawi, Macedonia, Turkey, China, Zimbabwe, India, Vietnam, and Nicaragua |
Sida aims to raise the standard of living in the poorer countries of the world. Sida has provided support for tobacco-relevant programs and initiatives at Research for International Tobacco Control (RITC, previously known as the International Tobacco Initiative) the World Bank, and WHO. Sida is currently establishing a set of guidelines and priorities for tobacco activities. |
| WHO-TFI Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office http://www.emro.who.int/index.asp |
150000d |
East Mediterranean region |
Tobacco control research priorities include surveys related to different aspects of the tobacco epidemic, economic studies, and legislation. Key initiatives have included the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, the Global Health Professional Survey, tobacco economic studies, and studies of tobacco smuggling. |
| WHO-TFI European Regional Office (Euro-TFI) http://www.who.dk/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/TOB/Home |
250 000e |
Focus on central and eastern Europe and central Asia |
The Euro-TFI program works to ensure that governments, international agencies, and other partners are equipped to work together to control tobacco use by building regionwide political commitment for tobacco control and the FCTC; providing international support for building national capacity for tobacco control; strengthening international coordination; and facilitating information exchange, technical cooperation, and monitoring. Euro-TFI provides technical assistance, training, and development of guidelines on surveillance, research, legislation, economics, health promotion, smoking cessation, and advocacy through public policy. |
| WHO-TFI Regional Office for Africa (AFRO-TFI) http://www.afro.who.int |
Not applicable |
Africa |
AFRO-TFI notes the increasing burden of tobacco-related diseases, especially in African countries, and the fact that African countries are experiencing the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries at 4.3% per year. AFRO-TFI promotes World No Tobacco Day. A specific theme has been tobacco-free films and tobacco-free fashion. |
| WHO-TFI Western Pacific Regional Office http://www.wpro.who.int/tfi |
1.8 million plus 801 000 in country budget of 9 member states |
Western Pacific: 36 member states and territories |
The emphasis of the Regional Action Plan on Tobacco or Health 2000–2004 is the development and implementation of National Plans of Action for Tobacco Control, the support for development and adoption of the FCTC, the timely use of health promotion and advocacy initiatives, the use of mass media campaigns for quitting tobacco use, and the improvement of coordination of tobacco or health activities at the regional and national levels. |
| World Bank Group http://www.worldbank.org |
140 000 |
Low- and middle-income countries in much of the world; current projects in Africa, central and eastern Europe, and Asia |
Tobacco falls under the topic area of public health. The World Bank is mandated to support tobacco control research in low- and middle-income countries. The economics of tobacco is the priority of the bank’s tobacco work. More specifically, research focuses on demand, taxes, smuggling, employment, and poverty. All research is expected to be policy relevant. |
| World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative (WHO-TFI) http://www.who.int/tobacco |
1 million |
All regions |
WHO-TFI is a cabinet project of WHO. TFI’s global mission is to reduce tobacco prevalence and consumption in all countries and among all groups. A major focus of TFI was the negotiation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). |
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| aData collected June–August, 2002. Agencies were asked to provide the "current" figures at the time of data collection. |
| bBudget figures indicated are for tobacco control research and for tobacco control activities. |
| cFor global work in 2001. |
| dSpent last biennium on tobacco-related studies. |
| eExtrabudgetary allocations range from $150 000 to $300 000. |
