The overall goal is to establish a network of tobacco control researchers who can work individually and collaboratively to carry out tobacco control research, who can use the resulting evidence to effect policy and behavioral change, and who can also enhance capacity for tobacco control research in their own regions. This goal will be reached by focusing on developing research infrastructure in epidemiology and surveillance, and developing behavioral and community interventions with the ultimate goal of advancing the tobacco control policy agendas in China, Mexico, and Brazil.

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