The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been designated a collaborating center of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO). As a collaborating center, the IGTC will work to support global efforts to reduce tobacco use. The IGTC is one of three tobacco control surveillance and evaluation collaborating centers in the United States, joining the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. The IGTC promotes research, surveillance, evaluation and training in support of a progressive and aggressive policy development agenda. These activities play a critical role in building and maintaining strong tobacco control programs. The Institute has been active in all of these areas throughout the world and will continue to serve as an educational resource on tobacco-related topics, offering courses and training workshops, and undertaking projects in tobacco control policy and intervention. - To provide technical support to develop national capacity to carry out tobacco control research; to use research information to drive program development and implementation and to mobilize resources
- To develop tools for assessing and enhancing regional capacity for tobacco control, particularly in relation to the WHO FCTC
- To provide on-going technical and training support for PAHO's Smoke Free Americas Initiative
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