The following text is from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health: The 2017 NCI Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention is currently accepting applications! NCI hosts the “NCI Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention” every year in Rockville, Maryland. The Curriculum provides scientists and health care professionals training on cancer control, prevention and […]
Global Bridges and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change are collaborating to offer a new grant opportunity focused on treating tobacco dependence in the WHO European Region. All applicants must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) by Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time. For more information, access the Request […]
Global Bridges grantee Joao Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia recently developed a tobacco dependence treatment webinar in partnership with the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA) and the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Alcohol and Drugs (GREA). In this week’s blog, he shares insights on developing the webinar and his hopes for what it will bring to […]
Global Bridges at Mayo Clinic and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change Request for Proposals (RFP) EUROPEAN PROGRAM 17 November, 2015 I. Background Global Bridges: Healthcare Alliance for Tobacco Dependence Treatment, hosted at Mayo Clinic, and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change (IGLC) are collaborating to offer a new grant opportunity focused on treating tobacco […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) are working together to: Translate recently-published WHO recommendations on prevention and management of tobacco use, and secondhand smoke exposure in pregnancy, into a competency-based tool Share the tool with midwives The partnership furthers the WHO’s global commitment to reducing tobacco use and ICM’s […]
As Global Bridges grantees continue their work to treat tobacco dependence and work toward policy change, they also aim to estimate the impact of healthcare provider training as part of evaluating program effectiveness. During September’s grantee call, Moore’s Seven Levels of CME Outcomes were mentioned as a basis for measuring healthcare providers’ learning and implementation. […]
In Brazil, despite the availability of treatment for regular smokers through large national programs (such as the Brazilian National Cancer Institute and Program for the Assistance of Addicts,) mental health and addiction (MHA) patients have received little help to combat smoking – even though the prevalence of smoking among MHA patients is 2-4 times higher […]
Cigarettes are a big problem for China. 360 million Chinese people smoke, equal to the population of the United States. 72 percent of the population is exposed to secondhand smoke and one million people die each year due to tobacco related diseases. The Chinese are taking steps toward reducing tobacco use by meeting provisions of […]
Arusyak Harutyunyan, MD, MPH, of the American University of Armenia School of Public Health, recently gave a presentation on the availability of tobacco dependence treatment based on market research in her country, Armenia. Her presentation was part of the July Global Bridges grantee call that focused on pharmacotherapy for tobacco dependence treatment. “Availability, Affordability, and […]
A set of tools to help implement Article 14 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is now available on TreatTobacco.net. Article 14 specifically addresses tobacco cessation and treatment strategies. The tools — designed to keep costs down and identify affordable interventions — include templates, an affordability calculator, guidance on how to develop national treatment […]
English
Amharic
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Macedonian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese