Our Future
2024 will be a pivotal year for Global Action to End Smoking as we relaunch the organization with a new approach to achieving our mission to end the smoking epidemic.
While our grantmaking will continue to focus on advancing health and science research for smoking cessation and reduced-risk solutions, we will also concentrate on directly reaching individuals who smoke to help the move away from combustible cigarettes, using all the tools available to support individuals on their journeys to quitting smoking.
We are committed to bringing awareness to the struggle of people who smoke and supporting their quitting efforts holistically and compassionately.
To that end, we will have a more robust Cessation Education grant focus area. We will also be a resource for people who smoke, health care practitioners, and researchers in the tobacco control community on our new website with the Get the Facts and For People Who Smoke pages. The site pages will be updated regularly to feature the latest research and information.
Additionally, we will be forging new partnerships with like-minded academic and research centers and others to accelerate life-saving research and educational projects.
Urban Institute Grant
At the time we unveiled our relaunch, we announced a new grant to the Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C. As our first grantee in the newly formalized Cessation Education area, Urban will study tobacco-use disorder and nicotine dependence among low-income individuals in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The work conducted by Urban’s Health Policy Center will further understanding of the challenges of quitting among the country’s marginalized and most vulnerable populations.
We are forging new collaborations with like-minded organizations and individuals to accelerate our support of life-saving research and projects.
We look forward to sharing more about the vital work we’re supporting as we announce new grantees in 2024 and beyond.
We are accelerating comprehensive, science-based global efforts to end the smoking epidemic, with a focus on marginalized communities and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
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