Research for International Tobacco Control RITC

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Research for International Tobacco Control (RITC)

• Harvesting the Evidence

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Outline

• RITCs Programming Strategy
• Results
• New Directions for RITC

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RITCs Programming Strategy

• IDRC a pioneer in responding to this issue via
  RITC in1995 (with Health Canada Sida)
• Limited support from CIDA and Rockefeller
  Foundation
• IDRC has recently renewed and expanded its
  funding to RITC
• Continued funding from Health Canada a new
  partnership with DFID
• Focus on research, dissemination, capacity
  building and networking

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Research PrioritiesHealth and Social
Implications of Tobacco Use

• South Africa smoking cessation program for high
  risk pregnant women
• Lebanon argileh smoke constituents health
  impact and use during pregnancy
• Brazil development of a workplace smoking
  cessation program for women
• Argentina, Turkey, Nepal, Lebanon, Sri Lanka
  factors affecting youth smoking
• South Africa Death and disease from lung
  disease and tobacco use

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Research PrioritiesEconomics of Tobacco

• Uruguay health care costs associated with
  tobacco use
• Jamaica optimal tobacco tax levels and
  tobacco-related health costs
• Poland characteristics of the market for legal
  and illegal cigarettes
• Viet Nam resource allocation on tobacco at the
  household level in relation to other spending

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Research PrioritiesLegislative and Policy
Analysis

• Lebanon current tobacco control laws factors
  that influence policy development and
  implementation
• Tanzania situational analysis and national
  research agenda
• Turkey assessing compliance and enforcement of
  existing tobacco control legislation
• Vietnam, South Africa and Lebanon political
  mapping for national tobacco control policy-making

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Research PrioritiesAlternative Crops and
Livelihoods

• Zimbabwe social and economic implications of
  tobacco production on rural communities and
  households, especially with respect to women and
  children
• Brazil ecosystem effects of tobacco growing
• India economics of shifting from tobacco
  cultivation in Karnataka

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New Directions for RITC

• Continued focus on researchcapacity building
  dissemination and networking
• Responsive funding will respond to local needs
  and emerging topics globally
• Focused funding will focus on Tobacco and
  Development issues
• Allocated funding for fellowships to promote new
  researchers
• Focus on priority countries and regions

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SMALL GRANTS COMPETITIONS

• to support research that will promote
  ratification and implementation of the FCTC
• To draw new researchers into tobacco control
  research
• To encourage experienced researchers to engage in
  tobacco control research
• Round 1 24/121 proposals funded
• Round 2 32/103
• Round 3 124 proposals received
• Larger grants and topic specific grants planned

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RITC Focused ResearchPriority Topics

• Poverty and Tobacco
• Tobacco Farming Health, Livelihoods, Economics
  and the Environment
• Health Systems Interventions
• Globalization, Trade and Tobacco
• Alternate Forms of Tobacco Use

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Applications

• RITC website
• http//www.idrc.ca/RITC

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Thank YouLinda Waverleyhttp//www.idrc.ca/ritc