Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute Explained

FAMRI, or the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute is a non-profit research funding body. It was created as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the tobacco industry on behalf of non-smoking flight attendants.[1] [2]

FAMRI funds research into smoking-related and secondhand smoke related cancers. This is primarily through grants to principal investigators and American universities[3] [4] but also through the Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence at the American Academy of Pediatrics and the FAMRI Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins.[5]

Norma Broin was the lead Plaintiff in the class action case, Broin v. Philip Morris.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Kress . E . 2004 . Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) . Tobacco Control . 13 . Suppl 1 . i67–i69 . 1766152 . 14985620.
  2. "SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT; BROIN VS. PHILLIP MORRIS INC., ET AL." Council for Tobacco Research. Bates no. 70063347/3379. October 9, 1997. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mje07c00 .
  3. Web site: FAMRI Grantees 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030707/http://www.famri.org/Documents/FAMRI_GRANTEES_2002-2012.pdf . March 4, 2016 . dead.
  4. Web site: Medical research institute. milliondollarlist.org. 23 December 2016. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030616/http://www.milliondollarlist.org/donors/flight-attendant-medical-research-institute. live.
  5. Web site: Famri. hopkins-famri.org. 23 December 2016. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130605053353/http://hopkins-famri.org/. live.
  6. Web site: Broin. archive.tobacco.org. 23 December 2016. 23 December 2016. 24 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161224094122/http://archive.tobacco.org/Documents/9901brown.html. live.

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