Five key partner organizations were named to implement the Initiative and help coordinate activities to curb the epidemic, working in partnership and close coordination with other organizations involved in international tobacco control. The overall role of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Bloomberg Initiative is to expand tobacco-control-related capacity building; synthesize what is known about the economics of tobacco control and coordinate work to fill identified gaps in knowledge; and analyze, refine and optimize tobacco control interventions in collaboration with the other Initiative partners. In this context, particular attention is being given to China. The following centers and departments at the School are collaborating to meet the objectives of the Bloomberg Initiative: the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, the Center for Communication Programs and the Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Health, Behavior and Society and International Health.
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