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GTRN's Mission Statement
Enhance research by promoting collaboration and partnerships, providing information, facilitating training, and sharing research tools with the goal of reducing the burden of disease and death caused by tobacco. | |
GTRN's BackgroundIn 2002, the Institute for Global Tobacco Control received a grant from NCI to initiate development of GTRN to practically apply systems theory emanating out of its Initiative for the Study of Innovative Systems (ISIS). ISIS was launched to better understand strategies for integrating science and practice and improve public health outcomes. As a first step, ISIS involved broad consultation with tobacco control experts to map out the current extent of tobacco control activity and to identify the priorities for tobacco control in the future. Leading experts in systems and network theory have joined the initiative to help develop a new integrated model of tobacco control, or a “roadmap” toward a better alignment of tobacco control activities at the national, state and local levels. The roadmap will provide explicit recommendations for all key stakeholders. The successful outcome of this systems-approach to tobacco control will include a more efficient use of resources, better communication and cooperation amongst participants, and ultimately, a significant reduction in tobacco use and its related health impacts.
GTRN aims to consolidates the weakly interlinked multi-sectoral community of researchers and institutions involved in the broad spectrum of past, current and future research that addresses the determinants, consequences, and control of tobacco production, promotion and consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. GTRN members share the desire to reduce the burden of disease and death caused by tobacco and whom, together, have the knowledge and skills to sustain future global tobacco control research efforts. GTRN is structured around three key concepts: network consolidation, knowledge management, and knowledge sharing. GTRN offers its members a range of services, including searchable databases of researchers and research institutions involved in the conduct and financial support of tobacco research throughout the world, an interactive database of international tobacco control literature from over 30 countries, and a growing repository of tobacco control research tools.
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