This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 602270(EQUIPT)
At the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention Conference held from 5th to 7th April 2016 in Brussels, the Outstanding European Health Research Award was presented to EQUIPT. This award is given to projects which have shown an extraordinary degree of dedication to promoting tobacco control activities on the basis of sound scientific evidence.
EQUIPT was awarded the prize because of its efforts in providing health care policy makers with bespoke information about the economic and wider returns that investing in evidence-based tobacco control including smoking cessation agendas can generate. EQUIPT has the potential to improve investment in effective tobacco control and cessation services resulting in large cost-savings across the EU.
Led by Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at Brunel University, London, EQUIPT is a partnership of 11 consortium members from 7 member states – Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. More information on the EQUIPT project can be found here.
