Building Capacity for Tobacco Research in Romania

描述：罗马尼亚缺乏烟草科学，也没有建立严格的跨学科烟草控制研究能力的战略。我们建议建设罗马尼亚科学家进行高质量烟草研究的能力，同时加强匈牙利科学家作为中欧和东欧烟草控制研究领导者的能力。来自罗马尼亚图尔库穆雷什医学和药学大学、美国北卡罗来纳州戴维森学院和匈牙利布达佩斯塞梅尔维斯大学的科学家将成为主要合作伙伴。他们将与其他11个机构的同事一起参加。我们建议通过将一个非常成功的烟草研究和能力建设项目（R01TW007927-01）从匈牙利翻译到罗马尼亚——一个拥有共同文化和历史的中欧和东欧（CEE）邻国来填补科学空白。在最初的资助中为匈牙利科学家提供指导的美国科学家将与一部分匈牙利科学家合作，并为一批新的罗马尼亚科学家提供指导。利用我们在匈牙利取得的经验和成功，国际指导团队将：(1)通过填补战略空白和建设烟草科学家的个人能力，在罗马尼亚开展新的严格、跨学科、高影响力的烟草研究；(2)建立机构能力，支持从事烟草研究的科学家和倡导者；(3)将研究成果转化为罗马尼亚减少烟草使用的规划和政策。该小组将共同开展七个研究项目，重点是预防和戒烟、减少二手烟接触、纳入弱势群体、以干预为导向的研究以及战略性设计的研究，以便研究结果为规划和政策变化提供信息。这三个国家伙伴将共同制定一项协调良好的战略计划，以传播指导研究建议的结果，确保将其转化为遏制烟草使用的规划和政策举措。最终，研究结果将成为未来以行动为导向的科学的催化剂，支持罗马尼亚创新的烟草控制干预措施，并激励与周边国家建立烟草控制伙伴关系。

DESCRIPTION: There is a dearth of tobacco science in Romania and no strategy to build the capacity for rigorous, trans disciplinary tobacco control research. We propose to build the capacity of Romanian scientists to conduct high-quality tobacco research and simultaneously enhance the capacity of Hungarian scientists as leaders in tobacco control research in Central and Eastern Europe. Scientists from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of T¿rgu Mure_, Romania, Davidson College, NC, USA, and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary will be the primary partners. They will be joined by colleagues from 11 other institutions. We propose to fill scientific voids by translating a highly successful tobacco research and capacity building project (R01TW007927-01) from Hungary to Romania-a neighboring Central and Eastern European (CEE) Country with shared culture and history. Scientists from the United States who provided mentoring to Hungarian scientists in the original grant will partner with a subset of the Hungarians and provide mentoring to a new cohort of Romanian scientists. Taking advantage of our experience and success in Hungary, the international mentoring team will: (1) Conduct new rigorous, trans disciplinary, high impact tobacco research in Romania by filling strategic gaps and by building the individual capacity of tobacco scientists; (2) Create institutional capacity tht will support scientists and advocates engaged in tobacco research; and (3) Translate research findings into programs and policies to reduce tobacco use in Romania. Collectively this group will carry out seven research projects with emphases on tobacco prevention and cessation, reduction of secondhand smoke exposure, inclusion of vulnerable populations, intervention-oriented research, and research that is strategically designed so that the results will inform programmatic and policy change. Together, the three country partners will create a strategic, well-coordinated plan to disseminate findings from the mentored research proposals to ensure they are translated into programmatic and policy initiatives to curb tobacco use. Ultimately, the research findings will serve as a catalyst for future action-oriented science, and to support innovative tobacco- control interventions in Romania, and to motivate tobacco-control partnerships with surrounding countries.