Increasing Capacity for Tobacco Research in Hungary

描述（由申请人提供）：匈牙利是欧盟（EU）中吸烟相关死亡率最高的国家（21%）。据估计，匈牙利有34%的成年人吸烟，包括40.5%的男性和28%的女性。这一研究和能力建设项目的目标是通过推进对烟草使用的科学研究来减轻烟草负担，并广泛传播将导致匈牙利创新性烟草控制干预措施的研究成果。来自布达佩斯Semmelweis大学和美国北卡罗来纳州温斯顿塞勒姆维克森林大学的科学家将合作实现以下目标：建立机构能力，支持从事烟草研究的科学家和倡导者，并将研究成果转化为减少烟草使用的规划和政策。2. 进行有可能在地方和国家一级显著减少烟草使用的指导研究。3. 通过正式的国内培训和指导研究项目，培养匈牙利和美国研究伙伴的个人能力。Semmelweis大学将让来自各个学科的学生、学者、从业者和决策者参与到机构能力建设过程中来。来自匈牙利和美国的团队领导将指导指导科学家进行战略规划和逻辑模型开发，这将为匈牙利的烟草研究任务提供信息。美国研究人员将向匈牙利科学家提供研究方法、研究伦理行为、烟草控制研究和拨款写作等核心能力方面的正式培训。美国和匈牙利的领导层还将通过一对一的指导和支持，将受指导的研究项目纳入能力建设工作。美国学者的研究能力也将得到提高。美国团队将了解匈牙利烟草研究的历史和传统，了解匈牙利存在的烟草知识差距，并与参与烟草控制运动的利益相关者和科学家合作。通过实施相互学习和相互尊重的共同学习进程，参与的匈牙利和美国科学家将更好地在科学严谨和有意义的研究上进行合作，并对匈牙利的烟草使用产生影响。匈牙利缺乏烟草科学，目前也没有领导以证据为基础的全面烟草控制规划的战略。这项研究和能力建设建议将满足匈牙利的一项非常重要的需要。匈牙利卫生部和世界卫生组织批准了这一项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hungary has the highest percentage of smoking-related deaths in the European Union (EU) (21%). An estimated 34% of adults in Hungary smoke, including 40.5% of men and 28% of women. The goal of this research and capacity building project is to reduce the burden of tobacco through the advancement of scientific study of tobacco use and to broadly disseminate research findings that will result in innovative tobacco control interventions in Hungary. Scientists from Semmelweis University in Budapest and Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC USA will collaborate to achieve the following aims: 1. Create institutional capacity that will support scientists and advocates engaged in tobacco research and translate research findings into programs and policies to reduce tobacco use. 2. Conduct mentored research that has the potential to significantly reduce tobacco use at the local and national level. 3. Build individual capacity among Hungarian and U.S. research partners through formal in-country training and mentored research projects. Semmelweis University will engage students, academics, practitioners, and policy makers from a wide range of disciplines in an institutional capacity building process. Team leadership from Hungary and the U.S. will guide mentored scientists in strategic planning and logic model development that will inform the tobacco research mission in Hungary. U.S. investigators will offer formal training to Hungarian scientists in core competencies of research methodology, ethical conduct of research, tobacco control research, and grant writing. Leadership in the U.S. and Hungary will also embed the mentored research projects into the capacity building effort through 1-on-1 guidance and support. The research capacity of U.S. scholars will also be enhanced. The U.S. team will learn about the history and tradition of tobacco research Hungary, understand the gaps in tobacco knowledge that exist in Hungary, and collaborate with stakeholders and scientists engaged in the tobacco control movement. By implementing a co-learning process embedded in mutual learning and mutual respect, participating Hungarian and U.S. scientists will be better equipped to collaborate on scientifically rigorous and meaningful research and to make an impact on tobacco use in Hungary. There is dearth of tobacco science in Hungary and no current strategy to lead a comprehensive tobacco control program that is evidence-based. This research and capacity-building proposal will fill a very important need in Hungary. The Hungarian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization have endorsed this project.