Non-Communicable Disease Prevention

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Research results from our recipients

Want to discover what our program has helped achieve in tobacco control and non-communicable disease prevention?

This is where you’ll find research results from researchers funded through the Non-Communicable Disease Prevention program (formerly Research for International Tobacco Control).

Over the past 15 years, we have supported researchers from developing countries as they make progress on development challenges, including:

evidence on the harm from waterpipe smoking
knowledge on alternative livelihoods to tobacco farming
overcoming barriers to tobacco control legislation

Learn from these and other achievements.

For a brief description of each project funded by our program, see Projects.

African Tobacco Situation Analysis (ATSA)

In 2008, IDRC partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the African Tobacco Situational Analyses (ATSA), an initiative to understand the critical determinants for tobacco control in sub-Saharan Africa. The goals: weigh opportunities...

Tobacco in Africa Video Series

Africa, a new frontier for tobacco companies, is witnessing a smoking epidemic. These short videos provide an introduction to tobacco use in Africa, some of the successes in addressing the devastating effects of tobacco use, and the challenges to...