Current projects
Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
- Funding: $8.9 million,
- Duration: January 2023 to December 2026
TCRG is a partner in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use (BI) and is part of STOP. STOP is a global tobacco industry watchdog whose mission is to expose the tobacco industry tactics that undermine public health.
Comprised of a network of academic and public health organisations, STOP researches and monitors the tobacco industry, shares intelligence to counter its tactics, and exposes its misdeeds to a global audience. STOP is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of the BI.
Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) Consortium
- Funding: 拢9 million,
- Duration: April 2024 to March 2028
The LHGP research consortium brings together leading researchers from the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Sheffield and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is part of the Population Health Improvement (PHI UK) network and is funded by UK 69色情片 and Innovation (UKRI).
The consortium works with local governments, local populations, public health practitioners, and civil society organisations across the UK including the Association of Directors of Public Health, Action on Smoking and Health, Obesity Health Alliance, Alcohol Health Alliance, and Centre for Thriving Places.
LHGP鈥檚 work aims to identify, implement and evaluate population-level actions most likely to improve health, wellbeing and equity at local authority level by addressing the commercial determinants of health (CDoH), defined as 鈥榯he systems, practices, and pathways through which commercial actors drive health and equity鈥�.
Previous projects
Shaping Public Health Policies to Reduce Inequalities and Harm (SPECTRUM)
- Funding: 拢485,565,
- Duration: October 2019 to February 2025
TCRG is a project partner in the SPECTRUM consortium, investigating the commercial determinants of health and health inequalities. SPECTRUM covers tobacco, alcohol, and foods high in sugar, salt and fat. SPECTRUM builds on the work of the .
STOP: a tobacco industry watchdog
- Funding: $8.3 million,
- Duration: December 2018 to December 2022
Integrated Evidence Synthesis for Joint Appraisal of Tobacco and Alcohol Tax Interventions for Harm Reduction in the UK (SYNTAX)
- Funding: 拢726,966,
- Duration: March 2018 to February 2021
Harnessing Big Data Alongside Investigative Methods: Investigating Tobacco Industry Conduct in an Era of Political Uncertainty
- Funding: 拢217,836,
- Duration: February 2018 to July 2020