When ARC called for expressions of interest to develop and implement a pilot project aimed at improving respiratory health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, nineteen applications were received. After a rigourous process, four applications were short-listed and invited to develop a full proposal. These were all worthy proposals and it was a difficult task to rank them.

ARC is now pleased to announce that the Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council of NSW has been awarded an ARC grant of $490,200 for the project 'Randomised controlled trial of using a dedicated tobacco control worker and a co-ordinated approach to enhance tobacco control and smoking cessation activities in Aboriginal communities in NSW'.

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ARC is pleased to announce the following Harry Windsor Research Grants for 2007. Both grants are for one year and valued at $50,000.

Dr Steven Bozinovski, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne for the project 'Cigarette smoke exposure chemically modifies and inactivates lung innate immunity mediated by the bacterial recognition receptor, TLR4'

Dr Siobhain Brennan, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth and Associate Professor Anthony Kettle, University of Otago, New Zealand for the project 'Investigating markers of oxidative stress in young children with cystic fibrosis: a driving mechanism of pulmonary inflammation?'

In December 2006 in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in New Caledonia, ARC undertook training in tuberculosis case management for nurses from the USA Pacific Islands at the 4th Annual US Pacific Islands Regional Tuberculosis Workshop held in Honolulu from 28 November to 2 December 2006. Twenty-one participants from 6 countries participated in the course.

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