GOVERNANCE OF TOBACCO IN THE 21ST CENTURY:
Strengthening National and International Policy for Global Health and Development
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
February 26 –27, 2013 H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y R A D C L I F F E I N S T I T U T E F O R A D VA N C E D S T U D Y 18 MASON STREET CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Organizing Committee Monique Bertic, MSW, MPH, MPA, Harvard School of Public Health Amanda Brewster, MSc, Harvard Global Health Institute Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health Glaudine Mtshali, MBBCh, LLB, MBA Harvard Global Health Institute Armando Peruga, MD, MPH, DrPH, World Health Organization Gemma Vestal, JD, MPH, MBA, BSN, World Health Organization Scientific Committee Mary Assunta, PhD, South East Asian Tobacco Control Alliance Douglas Bettcher, MD, PhD, World Health Organization Neil Collishaw, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health Geoffrey Fong, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada Julio Frenk, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health Thomas Glynn, PhD, American Cancer Society Sue Goldie, MD, MPH, Harvard Global Health Institute Greg Hallen, International Development Research Centre, Canada Laurent Huber, Framework Convention Alliance Benn McGrady, PhD, Georgetown University Suerie Moon, PhD, Harvard Global Health Institute Matthew L. Myers, JD, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Bungon Ritthiphakdee, South East Asian Tobacco Control Alliance Yussuf Salooje, MD, The National Council Against Smoking, Republic of South Africa
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OUR OBJECTIVES: Our motivation in organizing this conference is the sobering prediction that over 1 billion people will die unnecessarily from smoking in the 21st century – a tenfold increase over the past century. Governments have worked to protect public health by negotiating a set of global rules to better govern tobacco use, encapsulated in the 2005 World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). In recent years, governments have begun to implement this treaty at country-level by adopting policies such as tobacco taxes, bans or restrictions on advertising, health warnings on packaging, product regulations, and clean air policies, all of which have been shown to be effective in reducing tobacco use. However, legal challenges at both national and international levels have depicted such policies as violations of countries’ obligations under bilateral, regional or multilateral trade or investment agreements. Furthermore, some tobacco-growing or tobacco-exporting countries fear that strengthening global tobacco control may restrict their opportunities for economic growth. Ultimately, the governance of tobacco falls not only under the remit of health authorities, but also lies within the sphere of trade, finance and agricultural policy. This conference brings together representatives from governments, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, business, and academia to explore these questions, with the objective of: •
Enhancing knowledge, information-sharing, network-building and learning across countries, contexts and policymaking arenas;
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Identifying strategies to strengthen the governance of tobacco at national and international levels; and
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Fostering greater policy coherence among actors working in health, trade and investment to ensure the protection of global health
We seek to answer some essential questions related to the global governance of tobacco: •
How do international laws and institutions regarding tobacco, trade, investment, agriculture and economic development intersect?
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What are the implications for global tobacco control efforts?
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How should public health concerns be taken into account in international economic policymaking?
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What is the proper balance between a government’s obligations to protect the health of its citizens and other international agreements to which it has subscribed?
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What are the broader implications for global governance and health?
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OUR DELIVERABLES: We seek to make a significant and lasting impact on advancing issues of global governance and tobacco. Our deliverables will include formal published proceedings, a meeting report, research papers, as well as educational materials for policymakers, students and the general public.
OUR SPONSORS: We are grateful to our cosponsoring organizations for their guidance and support.
World Health Organization Harvard School of Public Health Harvard Global Health Institute American Legacy Foundation International Development Research Centre, Canada The Medical University of South Carolina American Cancer Society International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, University of Waterloo (ITC) O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins University Framework Convention Alliance Action on Smoking and Health Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Harvard Law School Southeast Asian Tobacco Alliance (SEATCA)
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CONFERENCE AGENDA FEBRUARY 26-27, 2013
Day 1 Feb. 26
Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 18 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA
8:30-9:00
Coffee and Registration
9:00-9:15
Welcome Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health Douglas Bettcher, MD, MPH, PhD, World Health Organization Sue Goldie, MD, MPH, Harvard Global Health Institute
9:15-9:30
Global Governance for Health and Tobacco Control Julio Frenk, MD, PhD, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health Co-Chair: Forum on Global Governance for Health, Harvard Global Health Institute
9:30-9:50
The Need to Strengthen Global Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century Margaret Chan, MD, MSc, Director-General, World Health Organization
9:50-10:10
Tobacco, Health and Social Justice in the Developing World Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, MD, Chairperson, African Union Commission
10:00-10:20
National Sovereignty in a Time of Globalization The Honorable Nicola Roxon, MP, Former Attorney General and Minister of Health, Australia
10:20-10:40
Creating Common Space for Global Policy on Health and International Trade Vesile Kulaço g˘ lu, Director, Trade and Environment Division, World Trade Organization
10:40-11:00
Questions and Answers Moderator: Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-11:50
The European Union’s Proposed Directive on Tobacco Control Bernard Merkel, PhD, Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America
11:50-12:10
The Global Health Burden of Tobacco Use in the 21st Century John Seffrin, PhD, CEO, American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
12:10-12:30
The Science of Tobacco Control Jeffrey E. Harris, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:30-1:40
Luncheon Speaker: Cheryl Healton, PhD, American Legacy Foundation
1:40-2:00
Tobacco, Economics and Development in the 21st Century Frank Chaloupka, PhD, University of Illinois
2:00-2:20
The Emergence of the Global Tobacco Empire: Progress, Profits and Strategies for Transferring Disease Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Day 1 Objective: The Science, Law, Ethics and Economics of the Governance of Tobacco
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2:20-2:40
The Critical Importance of Implementing the WHO FCTC on a Country-by-Country Basis Matthew Myers, JD, The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
2:40-3:00
Break
3:00-3:15
The Norwegian Experience: Successes and Challenges Bente Mikkelsen, MD, Norwegian Ministry of Health
3:15-4:15
Panel One: Challenges in the Governance of Tobacco Moderators: Armando Peruga, MD, MPH, DrPH, World Health Organization and Debby Sy, LL.B., LL.M., Harrison Institute, Georgetown Richard Daynard, JD, PhD, Northeastern University Eduardo Bianco, MD, Tobacco Epidemic Research Center, Uruguay Rima Nakkash, DrPH, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Mary Assunta, PhD, South-East Asian Tobacco Control Alliance Constantine Vardavas, MD, PhD, European Respiratory Society
4:15-5:00
Panel Two: Advances in the Governance of Tobacco Moderators: Adriana Blanco, MD, MA, World Health Organization/PAHO and Monika Arora, PhD, Public Health Foundation of India Dmitry Yanin, KONFOP, Russian Federation Amit Yadav, LL.M, MA, Public Health Foundation of India Dorcas Kiptui, Ministry of Health, Kenya Tania Cavalcante, MD, MPH, Brazilian Programme to Control Tobacco
5:00-5:15
Questions and Answers Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, Dr.PH, Thammasat University, Thailand
5:15-5:30
Response and Summary of the Day Suerie Moon, MPA, PhD, Harvard Global Health Institute Co-Chair and Research Director, Forum on Global Governance for Health, Harvard Global Health Institute
6:30-8:00
Harvard Reception Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 18 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA
Day 2 Feb. 27
Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 18 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA
8:30-9:00
Coffee
9:00-9:40
Panel Discussion: Evaluation of Passage and Implementation of Tobacco Control in LMICs Moderator: Sonia Covarrubias, Tobacco-Free Chile Geoffrey Fong, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada Lekan Ayo-Yusuf, DDS, MSc, MPH, PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Day 2 Objective: Working Together to Strengthen Cohesion for Tobacco Control
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9:40-10:00
Framing Global Governance Issues in the Context of Tobacco: A Case Study on Regime Complexity and Fragmentation Benn McGrady, PhD, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, Georgetown University
10:00-10:20
Integrating and Enhancing Support for Tobacco Control Douglas Webb, PhD, United Nations Development Program
10:20-10:40
Questions and Answers
10:40-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Choice of Two Panel Discussions: Human Rights, Tobacco and Governance Moderator: Fabrice Ebeh A. Kodjo, PhD, African Tobacco Control Alliance Bungon Ritthipkakdee, MSW, South-East Asian Tobacco Alliance Elif Dagli, MD, PhD, Turkish National Coalition on Tobacco or Health Oscar A. Cabrera, JD, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Amos Hausner, JD, Israel Council for the Prevention of Smoking Rachel Kitonyo, African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) Issues of Cohesion and Development in Global Tobacco Control Moderator: Greg Hallen, International Development Research Centre, Canada Akinbode Oluwafemi, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria Laurent Huber, Framework Convention Alliance Mario Mansour, MS, MBA, International Monetary Fund Alexander A. Padilla, JD, Ministry of Health, Philippines
12:00-12:30
Open Discussion Moderator: Thomas Glynn, MA, MS, PhD, The American Cancer Society
12:30-1:45
Lunch Luncheon Remarks: How Can We Engage the Broader Global NGO Community in this Dialogue? Soon-Young Yoon, PhD, UN Representative for the International Alliance of Women Chair, NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York
2:00-2:30
Launching into the Working Sessions Robert Stumberg, JD, LLM, Georgetown University
2:30-4:00
Working Sessions (details on page 8)
4:00-4:30
Break
4:30-4:45
Report on the Working Sessions Facilitator: John McDonough, DPH, MPA, Harvard School of Public Health
4:45-5:15
Open Discussion Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health Armando Peruga, MD, MPH, DrPH, World Health Organization
5:15-5:30
Conclusion Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
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2:30-4:00
Working Sessions (Day 2)
Day 2 Feb. 27
Facilitator: John McDonough, MA, MS, DPH, Harvard School of Public Health Session 1 Question: Is the public health science base sufficient to support effective tobacco control? Rapporteurs: Frank Chaloupka, PhD, University of Illinois and Geoffrey Fong, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada Session 2 Question: Is tobacco compatible with human rights and social justice in the 21st Century? Rapporteurs: Rachel Kitonyo, African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) and Oscar A. Cabrera, JD, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Session 3 Question: How can development agencies strengthen the global governance of tobacco? Rapporteurs: Laurent Huber, Framework Convention Alliance and Mary Assunta, PhD, South-East Asian Tobacco Control Alliance Session 4 Question: How do we enhance national cohesion in the governance of tobacco in the 21st Century? Rapporteurs: Akinbode Oluwafemi, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria and Toker Ergüder, PhD, World Health Organization Turkey Office Session 5 Question: How can we find capacity within the WHO FCTC and trade treaties for effective governance of tobacco in the 21st Century? Introductory Remarks: Cynthia Callard, Physicians for a Smoke-free Canada Rapporteurs: Armando Peruga, MD, MPH, DrPH, World Health Organization, Robert Stumberg, JD, LLM, Georgetown University and Benn McGrady, PhD, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, Georgetown University Session 6 Question: How do we strengthen US tobacco trade policy? Rapporteurs: Chris Bostic, J.D., Action for Smoking and Health Debby Sy, LL.B., LL.M., Harrison Institute, Georgetown and Gregg Haifley, JD, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Session 7 Question: How do we achieve a tobacco-free 21st Century? Rapporteurs: Yussuf Salooje, MD, The National Council Against Smoking, Republic of South Africa and Amos Hausner, JD, Israeli Council for the Prevention of Smoking Session 8 Presentation: How do we strengthen our tobacco treatment interventions globally? Presenter: Scott Leischow, PhD, Mayo Clinic Session 9 Presentation: Innovating Funding Proposal for Tobacco Control Presenters: German Velasquez, PhD, The South Centre and Neil Collishaw, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Monika Arora, Ph.D., Public Health Foundation of India Dr. Arora is a public health scientist working in the area of non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention with special focus on tobacco control research and advocacy. She is the Director of the Health Promotion & Tobacco Control Division and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Dr. Arora is directly involved in tobacco control policy research and brief development for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GOI). She is a member of various screening committees and task forces formed by MoHFW, GOI, to ensure effective implementation of tobacco control legislation. She is Convenor of the Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control, a coalition of 65 Pan India NGOs. She is a member of the Australia India Institute Taskforce on Plain Packaging, formed to research and advocate for plain packaging in India. Dr. Arora was honored with the Best Practices in Global Health Award in 2011 by the prestigious Global Health Council, for demonstrating best practices in the area of health promotion among youth and community, especially focusing on preventing NCDs. She was also honored with the WHO Director-General’s Award for tobacco control on World No Tobacco Day 2012. Mary Assunta, Ph.D., South East Asian Tobacco Control Alliance Dr. Assunta is an international tobacco control advocate with more than 20 years of experience. She is the Senior Policy Advisor to the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA). She was the first Chair of the Framework Convention Alliance, which is an international NGO seeking to affect a strong Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and served on its Board till 2011. She obtained her M.Phil. and Ph.D. at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, researching internal tobacco industry documents. She is the recipient of the 2003 Luther L. Terry Award for Outstanding Individual Leadership in Tobacco Control, and previously served on WHO’s Policy and Strategy Advisory Committee on Tobacco Control. She has published over 10 articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Assunta is a Malaysian and previously worked as Media Officer at the Consumers Association of Penang, where she coordinated health campaigns. OA (Lekan) Ayo-Yusuf, D.D.S., M.Sc., M.P.H., Ph.D., University of Pretoria, South Africa Dr. Ayo-Yusuf is an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and a visiting scientist at the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. He is the Director of the Global Bridges initiative in Africa and has trained several health care providers across Africa in the treatment of tobacco use and dependence. He has been active in tobacco control research for over a decade, and has rapidly gained recognition as a leading expert in tobacco control policy in South Africa and regionally. Dr. Ayo-Yusuf published the first articles on the contents and health effects of smokeless tobacco (snuff) used in South Africa. In addition to several scientific papers, he has made presentations to the South African parliament on tobacco control legislation. He is on the editorial board for Tobacco Control and is the Africa Editor for the American Journal of Health Behavior. He is also a member of the World Health Organization’s Scientific Group on Tobacco Regulation (TobReg) and a board member for SRNT. Lekan also currently serves as a member of the inaugural steering committee of the Center for Tobacco Control in Africa. HARVA R D U N I V E R SI TY
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Douglas Bettcher, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., World Health Organization Dr. Bettcher is the Director of the Department for Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously the Director of the Tobacco Free Initiative Department, WHO. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and a Graduate Diploma in World Politics, from the London School of Economics and Political Science; an M.P.H. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and an MD from the University of Alberta, Canada. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and has served as vice-chair of the public health interest group of the American Society of International Law and as a member of the Editorial Board of Global Governance. He was WHO’s principal focal point for providing Secretariat support for the negotiation of WHO’s first treaty, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Dr. Bettcher is actively involved with WHO’s work in the implementation of the Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of NCDs, New York, 2011. Currently, Dr. Bettcher’s work includes oversight for WHO’s work on NCD risk factor prevention, health promotion, and risk factor surveillance. Eduardo Bianco, MD, Tobacco Epidemic Research Center, Uruguay Dr. Eduardo Bianco is a medical doctor, postgraduate in cardiology based in Uruguay. He is also a cognitive-behavior technician and tobacco dependence treatment specialist. Currently, Dr. Bianco works as a cardiologist in the Coronary Care Unit of the Spanish Association in Montevideo and serves as the Latin American Director of the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA). He is also President of the Board of Directors of the Tobacco Epidemic Research Centre in Uruguay, heads the Tobacco Control Commission of the National Medical AssociationSMU, and chairs the Policy and Advocacy Committee of the World Heart Federation. Dr. Bianco has worked in the field of smoking cessation since 1994. In 1997, he started the first smoking cessation program in the private health care system in Uruguay. In 2004, he began the National Resource Fund’s Tobacco Dependence Treatment (TDT) Program, which quickly became the basis for a national network. As FCA Latin American Director, he has contributed to the WHO-FCTC development and implementation throughout Latin America. Dr. Bianco has also conducted tobacco control research and advocacy projects at both national and regional levels. He has received numerous national and international awards for his tobacco control activities. Adriana Blanco, M.D., M.A., World Health Organization/PAHO Dr. Blanco is currently the Regional Advisor for Tobacco Control at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). She received her medical degree from the School of Medicine of the University of Uruguay. She holds a postgraduate degree in drug dependencies and a master’s degree in polices for youth drug use prevention. Before joining PAHO, she had worked in tobacco control in Uruguay. She was co-coordinator of the National Alliance of Tobacco Control and a member of the Inter-institutional Advisory Committee on Tobacco Control of the Ministry of Health of Uruguay, where she was fully engaged in the processes that led to the first tobacco control measures in Uruguay: packaging and labeling, and smoke-free environments.
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Chris Bostic, J.D., Action on Smoking and Health Mr. Bostic is Action on Smoking and Health’s (ASH) Deputy Director for Policy, and has been working in global tobacco control since 2001 when he attended the negotiations for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control as a civil society international law expert. Chris has worked on tobacco policy at the local, state, national and international levels. Prior to joining ASH, he worked with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the American Lung Association, where he helped to develop SLATI (State-Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues), which is a national database of tobacco control regulations. He has also served as a clinical instructor at the University of Maryland School of Law. Chris holds a juris doctorate from the Washington College of Law, and a master of science in foreign service from Georgetown University. Oscar A. Cabrera, J.D., LL.M., O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Mr. Cabrera is the Executive Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is a foreigntrained attorney who earned his law degree in his home country of Venezuela, and his Master of Laws (LL.M.), with concentration in Health Law and Policy, at the University of Toronto. Oscar has worked on projects with the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, among other organizations. He has studied and is interested in various health law related fields, such as health and human rights, global tobacco litigation and sexual and reproductive rights. Cynthia Callard, Physicians for a Smoke-free Canada Ms. Callard has been executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (PSC) since 1995, but has been integrally involved in tobacco-reduction politics since the mid-1980s. She managed the parliamentary campaign for the first tobacco control law introduced in Canada to be successfully adopted (C-204, the Non-Smoker’s Health Act, 1988). This private-member’s legislation provided the first legislated protection from second hand smoke in workplaces and also led to Canada’s first government anti-tobacco legislation. In recent years, she has focused on structural barriers to controlling tobacco, and the conflicts between corporate law and commercial agreements and public health objectives.
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Tania Cavalcante, M.D., M.P.H., Brazilian Programme to Control Tobacco Dr. Cavalcante is a medical doctor with advanced training in the field of public health. Since 1993, she has worked on the National Tobacco Control Policy team in the Brazilian Ministry of Health, where she coordinated smoking cessation and smoke free-environments programs Nationwide. From 2001 to 2010, she headed the National Tobacco Control Division of the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA) and currently works within the Executive Secretariat of the National Commission for Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). This Committee is chaired by the Brazilian Minister of Health and composed of representatives of 18 ministries and secretaries of Federal government. In this commission, Dr. Cavalcante is responsible for articulating the government agenda for implementing FCTC and for coordinating the preparation of Brazilian delegation positions for FCTC Conference of the Parties. Frank Chaloupka, Ph.D., University of Illinois and Editor, WHO Monograph on Tobacco and Economics Dr. Chaloupka is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. He is Director of the UIC Health Policy Center and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control. Dr. Chaloupka holds appointments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Department of Economics and the School of Public Health’s Division of Health Policy and Administration. He is a Fellow at the University of Illinois’ Institute for Government and Public Affairs, and is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Health Economics Program and Children’s Program. Dr. Chaloupka is Co-Director of Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Policy and Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior and Director of BTG’s ImpacTeen Project. He is also Co-Director of the International Tobacco Evidence Network. Hundreds of publications and presentations have resulted from Dr. Chaloupka’s research on the effects of economic, policy, and environmental factors on health behavior, including tobacco use, drinking, drug use, diet, physical activity, and related outcomes. Margaret Chan, M.D., M.Sc., Director-General, World Health Organization Dr. Chan, from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1978, where her career in public health began. In 1994, Dr. Chan was appointed Director of Health of Hong Kong. In her nine-year tenure as director, she launched new services to prevent the spread of disease and promote better health. She also introduced new initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration. She effectively managed outbreaks of avian influenza and of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In 2003, Dr. Chan joined WHO as Director of the Department for Protection of the Human Environment. In June 2005, she was appointed Director, Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response as well as Representative of the DirectorGeneral for Pandemic Influenza. In September 2005, she was named Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases. Dr. Chan was elected to the post of Director-General on 9 November 2006. The Assembly appointed Dr. Chan for a second five-year term at its sixty-fifth session in May 2012. Dr. Chan’s new term began on 1 July 2012 and will continue until 30 June 2017.
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Neil E. Collishaw, M.A., Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada Mr. Collishaw brings over four decades of experience in public health work, including three decades of work on tobacco control, to his duties as Research Director at Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. As the lead tobacco control expert with the World Health Organization Tobacco or Health Programme from 1991 to 1999, he was active in supporting WHO Member States in their efforts to implement comprehensive tobacco control programmes, and in initiating action to create the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He is a co-author of WHO publications entitled Tobacco or Health: First Global Status Report and Guidelines for Controlling and Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic. He is also a co-author of An Introduction to International Trade Agreements and their Impact on Public Measures to Reduce Tobacco Use and Curing the Addiction to Profits: A supply-side approach to phasing out tobacco. Mr. Collishaw worked from 1974-1991 in the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare. From 1981 to 1991 his efforts were focused on helping the Canadian government to improve Canada’s tobacco control policies. His duties at Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, where he has worked since 2000 include policy advocacy and policy research in favour of tobacco control. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Sociology. Gregory N. Connolly, D.M.D., M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health: Dr. Connolly is the Director for the Center for Global Tobacco Control and Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor, awarded by the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (FAMRI). He conducts basic and applied research on tobacco products with a focus on the contribution to dependence and abuse liability. His research interests lie in establishing a science base for tobacco product regulation. Dr. Connolly directs research projects at the international level to establish local science needed for the adoption of effective tobacco control policies and programs, and evaluate their impact on population health. Finally, he conducts and directs research on the dangers of secondhand smoke, mechanistic links between exposure and disease and measures to control secondhand smoke. He has conducted research and affected policy change on US efforts to compel foreign nations import US cigarettes and repeal public health law. He testified at the GATT on Thailand US complaint and played an instrumental role in bringing science into a revised US tobacco trade policy in the 1990s where tobacco was dropped from US trade agreements.
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Elif Dagli, M.D., Ph.D., Turkish National Coalition on Tobacco or Health Dr. Dagli was born in Istanbul Turkey. She graduated from Hacettepe Medical School in Ankara and had her pediatric speciality training at the same center. In 1984, she received a master’s degree in immunology. As a student, she completed her elective study at Glasgow Royal Hospital for Sick Children. She worked as a research fellow at London Royal Brompton Hospital between 1988-1990. She established the Department of Pediatric Pulmonology at Marmara University in Istanbul in 1990 and became Professor of Pediatrics in 1994. In 1993, she worked as Secretary of the Tobacco and Health Working group at Turkish Thoracic Society. In 1998 she was elected to the executive committee of the European Respiratory Society, and became the chair of the smoking prevention committee. In 1999, she was appointed as Secretary General and Chair of the scientific coordinating committee at the Union (IUATLD). She became Chair of Department of Pediatrics of Marmara University Istanbul in 2000, and stayed in the position for 10 years. She served as the head of National Committee on Tobacco and Health between 2008- 2012. In 2011, she was elected Honorary Member of The Union and Executive Committee member of FCA (Framework Convention Alliance) Richard Daynard, J.D., Ph.D., Northeastern University Richard Daynard is a University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University, President of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, and Chair of its Tobacco Products Liability Project. He has written more than 80 articles on topics within tobacco control, and lectured or advised government officials on these issues in more than 50 countries. He is well known for his groundbreaking work in tobacco litigation and in cigarette endgame strategies. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, M.D., Chairperson, African Union Commission Dr. Dlamini-Zuma is a visionary leader, with an incredible passion for the African continent and its developmental ambitions, and is a champion of the renewal of Africa. Dr. Dlamini-Zuma currently serves as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. She has extensive experience on African Union matters, as well as an exceptional grasp of the unique dynamics that characterize the AU. Dr. Dlamini-Zuma holds a medical degree from the University of Bristol, England and served as South Africa’s first female minister of health and minister of foreign affairs. During her tenure as Minister of Health, she introduced comprehensive antitobacco legislation, The Tobacco Products Control Act, as well as efforts to promote the use of generic HIV and AIDS medications in South Africa. This work earned her the reputation of someone who locks horns with the powerful tobacco and pharmaceutical multi-national companies.
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Toker Ergüder, Ph.D., World Health Organization Turkey Office Since 2007, Dr. Ergüder has been the tobacco control program manager of the WHO Country Office in Turkey. He’s a Turkish medical doctor, specialized in Public Health. He manages WHO tobacco control activities at country level; and assists national government in strengthening implementation of FCTC and tobacco control legislation, monitoring national action plans, and developing policies and programs. Before joining the WHO, he worked as Director of Tobacco Control Department of Ministry of Health of Turkey between 2002 and 2007. He took an active role signing and ratifying of the WHO FCTC in Turkey. He drafted the National Tobacco Control Programme and Action Plan of Turkey for the years 2008-2012. He took an active role in amending the 100 % smoke free Law No. 5227 in 2008, which thus became one of the most advanced tobacco control laws in the world. In this process, he assisted the government and NGOs in the design, strengthening, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national tobacco control action plans, evidence based policies, legislation and programs consistent with the WHO FCTC. Dr. Ergüder also serves as an active member of many tobacco control NGOs. Geoffrey Fong, Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada Dr. Fong is Professor of Psychology and of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Fong is Founder and Chief Principal Investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project), a research collaboration of over 100 researchers across 22 countries, inhabited by over half of the world’s population, which has conducted large-scale longitudinal cohort surveys in each country to evaluate the impact of tobacco control policies of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Dr. Fong is the recipient of a Senior Investigator Award (2007–17) from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, and a Prevention Scientist Award (2011–16) from the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute. He is also an inaugural recipient (2009) of the “Top Canadian Achievement in Health Research Award” from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and Canadian Medical Association Journal. Dr. Fong received the 2011 CIHR Knowledge Translation Award for his work in the global dissemination of ITC findings. In 2012, Dr. Fong and Waterloo colleagues Mary E. Thompson and David Hammond received the Lise Manchester Award from the Statistical Society of Canada for the ITC Project.
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Julio Frenk, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, Co-Chair, Forum on Global Governance for Health, Harvard Global Health Institute Dr. Frenk is the Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, a joint appointment with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Frenk is an eminent authority on global health who served as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He pursued an ambitious agenda to reform the nation’s health system, with an emphasis on redressing social inequality. He is perhaps best known for introducing a program of comprehensive national health insurance, known as Seguro Popular, which expanded access to health care for tens of millions of previously uninsured Mexicans. Dr. Frenk was the founding director-general of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. In 1998, Dr. Frenk joined the World Health Organization (WHO) as Executive Director in charge of Evidence and Information for Policy. Dr. Frenk holds an M.D. from the National University of Mexico, and an M.P.H., and joint doctorate in Medical Care Organization and in Sociology from the University of Michigan. He has been awarded three honorary doctorates. He is a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico. In September of 2008, Dr. Frenk received the Clinton Global Citizen Award. Thomas Glynn, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., The American Cancer Society Dr. Glynn is Director of Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer Control at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Prior to coming to the ACS, Dr. Glynn was, from 1991 to 1994, Associate Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Control Science Program and, from 1991 to 1998, Chief of the NCI’s Cancer Control Extramural Research Branch. From 1983 to 1991, he was Research Director for the NCI’s Smoking, Tobacco, and Cancer Program. Dr. Glynn has published widely on cancer and tobacco use prevention and control, both in the scientific literature and for consumer, professional, and patient education. He was most recently editor of an ACS monograph series on advocacy for policy change in tobacco control and, during his NCI tenure, was co-developer of the 4A (now 5A) protocol for the treatment of tobacco dependence. In addition to his work at the ACS and NCI, he has served as a consultant on cancer control and tobacco issues to a wide range of organizations, businesses, and governments. He has also served as a Senior Scientific Reviewer for the U.S. Surgeon General’s Reports on Tobacco and Health, as Director of the World Health Organization Study of Health, Economic, and Policy Implications of Tobacco Growth and Consumption in Developing Countries.
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Sue Goldie, M.D.,M.P.H., Harvard Global Health Institute Dr. Goldie has dedicated her career to improving the health of vulnerable populations, generating evidence-based policies to reduce health inequities, and building bridges between disciplines to tackle global health challenges. A MacArthur award recipient (2005-2010), she is renowned for applying the tools of decision science to global health. Dr. Goldie has published more than 200 scientific papers, has been the Principal Investigator on awards from the National Institutes of Health, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009. She has served on several national and international advisory boards, including the Board on Global Health in the Institute of Medicine. A champion of interdisciplinary research and teaching, she received the John Eisenberg Award for translation of research to practice, the Harvard University Everett Mendelsohn Mentoring Award, and more than a dozen citations for teaching excellence. She joined the Harvard School of Public Health faculty in 1998, received tenure in 2006, was named the Roger Lee Irving Professor of Public Health in 2007, and was appointed as the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute in 2010 by President Faust. Jeffrey E. Harris, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Harris is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a practicing internist at a community health center in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Harris has served as consulting scientific editor and contributor to several US Surgeon General’s reports on smoking and health. He has given invited testimony before the US Congress on the global tobacco settlement, and served as an expert witness on behalf of the US Attorney General in United States v. Philip Morris. He has been a member of several committees of the US National Academy of Sciences, including the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Reducing Tobacco Use. His publications include an evaluation of the impact of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Campaign, and a study of the relationship between cigarette tar yields and mortality from lung cancer in the American Cancer Society’s CPS-II cohort. He has given seminars and presentations in many countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Spain, and Uruguay. Most recently, under the sponsorship of a Fulbright Specialist Award from the US Department of State, Dr. Harris coauthored an evaluation of the impact of Uruguay’s tobacco control campaign.
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Greg Hallen, International Development Research Centre, Canada Mr. Hallen has expertise in tobacco control and public health nutrition, and has focused on the prevention of non-communicable disease risk factors throughout his career. Greg leads the Non-Communicable Disease Prevention (NCDP) program at the International Development Research Centre (IRDC) in Ottawa, Canada. The NCDP program makes IDRC one of very few development agencies that have the prevention of NCD as a focus. Before joining IDRC in 2009, Greg was the Chief Executive Officer of the National Heart Foundation, Northern Territory, Australia. He also spent five years with the World Health Organization in Cambodia, where he contributed to the advancement of tobacco control research and policy in Southeast Asia. His early career work as a dietitian/nutritionist led to a strong interest in tobacco control when working in a public health unit on cancer prevention. Greg holds a master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics and a science degree, both from the University of Sydney and a graduate diploma of education from Charles Sturt University (Australia). Amos Hausner, J.D., Israel Council for the Prevention of Smoking Mr. Hausner practiced in a major New York law firm for numerous years, before taking over his father’s law firm. He is on the board of Massuah, the International Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the lay board of Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute, and is a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Hebrew University. Since 1983, he has drafted several bills that became law against smoking in Israel, including the 2007 ban in public places and the law mandating annual governmental reporting to the legislature on smoking. He applied several times to the Supreme Court, resulting in the removal of cigarette advertising from the IDF magazine (1987), prevention of the government from assisting the local tobacco industry (1988), the removal of cigarette advertising from sport stadia and arenas (1991), a ban on smoking on all flights to and from Israel (1998), and the right to civil compensation for exposure to secondhand smoke (2006). He also recently achieved a ban on theater smoking on stage. He is currently seeking removal of smoking from television reality programs. He was awarded an honorary medal by the World Health Organization in 1994. His innovative ideas are a foundation for many tobacco control activities worldwide.
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Cheryl Healton, Dr.P.H., M.P.A., American Legacy Foundation Dr. Healton is an author, researcher, professor, and public health administrator with more than 25 years’ experience and has served on a vast array of national, state, and local conferences, committees and task forces for public health and policy issues including HIV/AIDS, violence, and alcoholism. As the founding President and CEO of Legacy, Dr. Healton works to further the foundation’s ambitious mission: to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. During her tenure, she has guided the highly acclaimed, national youth tobacco prevention counter-marketing campaign, truth® — a campaign credited in part with reducing youth smoking prevalence to near record lows. Under her leadership, Legacy has undertaken numerous public education campaigns, research, technical assistance, and a broad program of grant making. Dr. Healton joined Legacy from Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health in New York, where she served as Chair of the Division of Sociomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Program Development. Dr. Healton is currently writing a book on the topic of women and smoking, with common sense strategies to increase successful quit attempts. In addition, she has been the principal investigator/program director for more than two dozen grants and has published numerous articles on public health topics. Laurent Huber, Framework Convention Alliance Mr. Huber is the Director of the Framework Convention Alliance – an international coalition of more than 350 Non-Governmental Organizations from over 100 countries – which has been widely recognized by governments, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Intergovernmental Organizations for its vital role in shaping the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Laurent is also the Director and founder of ASH International: a US based non-governmental organization devoted to supporting international tobacco control efforts. Mr. Huber holds a graduate degree in exercise physiology. He has directed a number of nonprofit organizations in developing and implementing non-communicable disease prevention programs for at risk and native populations. Mr. Huber regularly speaks at public health and tobacco control policy events for advocates and legislators, at conferences, and at academic institutions around the world. Mr. Huber serves on a number of panels and Advisory Boards for academic institutions and corporations as well as intergovernmental organizations that address health policy matters. Mr. Huber received the American Lung Association-C. Everett Koop Foundation Award in 2005, and under his leadership, the FCA received the prestigious Luther Terry Award in 2006, the Premio SEDET in 2008, and the WHO World No Tobacco Day Award in 2011.
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Dorcas Kiptui, Ministry of Health, Kenya Ms. Kiptui currently works as the tobacco control programme officer in the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, Kenya. Her work includes development and dissemination of background papers for policy advocacy, policy briefs and IEC materials; collaborating with other government departments; and corresponding with tobacco control partners and stakeholders. Ms. Kiptui played a key role in Kenya’s signing and ratification of the WHOFCTC on 24th June 2004. She coordinated and provided technical guidance in the drafting and domestication of the FCTC in Kenya. She has also been responsible for the development of country positions prior to the past Conference of Parties to the FCTC. Ms. Kiptui has demonstrated her leadership in tobacco control through participation in intergovernmental negotiations and working groups for the development of FCTC implementation tools. She has been previously accorded the title of Tobacco Control Champion by the Centre for TobaccoFree Kids. Ms. Kiptui is currently the AFRO region Bureau member in the FCTC Conference of Parties, and is a Steering Committee Member at the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa. She is currently completing her master’s degree at the Great Lakes University in Kenya. Rachel Kitonyo-Devotsu, African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) Ms. Kitonyo-Devotsu currently serves as project coordinator of the African Tobacco Control Consortium Project, a coalition of 6 public health organizations (the American Cancer Society, the Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative, the Africa Tobacco Control Alliance, the Framework Convention Alliance, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease) focused on preventing a tobacco epidemic in Africa. Ms. Kitonyo-Devotsu holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from University of Nairobi and has nine years of experience in tobacco control. Her work has included drafting and lobbying for tobacco control legislation in Kenya, training of government enforcement officers, media advocacy to create awareness about the dangers of tobacco use and the contents of the tobacco control legislation, and defence as amicus curiae of two cases filed by the tobacco industry challenging Kenyan tobacco control legislation. At ATCC, Ms. Kitonyo-Devotsu works with nine staff and grantees in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to support national and regional advocacy campaigns for the implementation of the FCTC. In recognition of her work, in 2009 the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids awarded Ms. Kitonyo-Devotsu the Judy Wilkenfeld Award for International Tobacco Control Excellence.
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Fabrice Ebeh A. Kodjo, Ph.D., African Tobacco Control Alliance Dr. Ebeh holds a Ph.D. in Environmental International Law at the University of Liege in Belgium. Since 2008, he has been the Executive Secretary of the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA), an alliance of about 143 affiliated organizations in 43 of the 46 WHO-AFRO. Dr. Ebeh is also a lecturer and member of the International Environmental Law Research Centre at the Faculty of Law at the University of Lomé. He has been the main actor of the ratification of the FCTC, the adoption of the tobacco control Law of Togo, and five implementation decrees. In the Framework of the ATCC Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he provides capacity building for CSOs and technical assistance for in-country tobacco control activities around the region. Dr. Ebeh is the current representative of the AFRO region at the Board of FCA. Dr. Ebeh has also achieved several works on comparative international law and African law. He participated in the negotiation process of several international environmental agreements, and achieved works on several international conventions. Vesile Kulaço˘glu, Director, Trade and Environment Division, World Trade Organization Vesile Kulaço˘glu is Director of the Trade and Environment Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in charge of its work on both the environment policies and technical barriers to trade since 2003. Prior to this she acted as Secretary to the WTO Committees on Government Procurement, Technical Barriers to Trade, and Regional Trade Agreements. Her current work involves research on systemic concerns related to non-tariff measures, regional trade agreements as well as emerging trade-related policy areas such as climate change, green economy, public health and food security. She co-authored the 2009 “WTO-UNEP Report on Trade and Climate Change” and oversaw WTO’s contribution to the Rio+20 Conference “Harnessing Trade for Green Economy.” She lectured at the Bosphorus University, Istanbul on the International Dimensions of Environmental Policies in Fall 2012, and occasionally at Aoyama Gakuin University, in Tokyo. Ms. Kulacoglu received a degree in economics from the University of Geneva and a master’s degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, NY. Mario Mansour, M.S., M.B.A., International Monetary Fund Mr. Mansour is a Senior Economist in the Tax Policy Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Fiscal Affairs Department, where his main responsibility is to lead tax advisory missions to IMF member countries. Prior to joining the IMF, Mr. Mansour worked for a private consultancy firm from 2000 to 2004, where he played a lead role in tax reform projects in the Middle East and Eastern Caribbean. From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Mansour served as an Economist at the Canadian Department of Finance, where the main focus of his work was tax policy design for corporations and international taxation. Mr. Mansour’s research work has covered various areas: evaluation of tax incentives; international taxation; modeling effective tax rates on capital income; micro-simulation modeling of revenue and distributional impacts of tax reform; estimation and analysis of tax expenditures; and, more recently, taxation and revenue mobilization in Africa. Mr. Mansour holds an MA in Economics from Université de Montréal and an MBA from the University of Ottawa.
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John McDonough, D.P.H., M.P.A., Harvard School of Public Health Dr. McDonough is a professor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and director of the new HSPH Center for Public Health Leadership. Previously, he was the Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College in New York City. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Between 2003 and 2008, he served as Executive Director of Health Care For All, where he played a key role in passage and implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts healthcare reform law. From 1998 through 2003, he was an Associate Professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care. He has written three books, Inside National Health Reform, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator’s Stories of Government and Health Care, and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting. He received a D.P.H. in 1996 from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990. Benn McGrady, Ph.D., O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, Georgetown University Dr. McGrady is an Australian lawyer who directs the Initiative on Trade, Investment and Health at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches International Trade and Health and co-teaches Public Health and International Investment Law. Benn’s research examines the intersection of public international law and health, with a particular focus on international trade and investment law and regulation of risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Among other publications, Benn is the author of Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol and Diet, and the World Health Organization publication Confronting the Tobacco Epidemic in a New Era of Trade and Investment Liberalization. Benn has advised public health bodies, foreign governments and inter-governmental organizations on various aspects of international law and has particular experience advising on the implications of international trade and investment agreements for public health measures, as well as on legal issues concerning the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He is also engaged regularly in training and capacity building around the world.
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Bernard Merkel, Ph.D., Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America Dr. Merkel is Head of the Food Safety, Health and Consumer Affairs section of the Delegation of the European Union to the USA, where he is involved in EU-US liaison and cooperation. He was previously Head of the Health Strategy and Health Systems Unit in the Health and Consumers Directorate General of the European Commission. There he was responsible for the EU’s first overall health strategy; the EU public health programmes; and EU healthcare initiatives, including the directive on cross-border healthcare, actions on patient safety, healthcare quality, pharmaceuticals, health technology assessment, the health workforce, and health investment. Before joining the Commission he was an Assistant Secretary in the UK Department of Health and Social Security working on issues such as AIDS, and NHS workforce and organisation, as well as the social security programmes on poverty and disability. He also spent a period as private secretary to the Health and Social Security Secretary. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene. He is on the Editorial Board of Eurohealth. Bente Mikkelsen, M.D., Norwegian Ministry of Health Dr. Mikkelsen currently serves as the director of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services. From 2007 until November 2011, she held the position of CEO of Norway’s largest health region. She led the South Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, which is a merger between the former Eastern and South Regional Health Authority. From 2001-2007, she served as a deputy managing director, head of the health and medical department, and CEO of the former Eastern Regional Health Authority. She has implemented one of the most challenging political decisions in the Norwegian healthcare system and planned and managed an ambitious turnaround program. Her fields of interest are quality and quality improvement, strategic planning, change management, knowledge management, R&D and innovation. She will start as senior strategic advisor for the ADG of the NCD cluster at WHO in Geneva in April. Dr. Mikkelsen is a medical doctor and specialist in obstetrics and gynecology from the University of Oslo and has 14 years of clinical experience. She has served on a number of governmental, non-governmental and academic boards and many national commissions and committees. She has given numerous lectures, both nationally and internationally.
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Suerie Moon, Ph.D., M.P.A., Harvard Global Health Institute, Co-Chair and Research Director, Forum on Global Governance for Health, Harvard Global Health Institute Dr. Moon is Research Director and Co-Chair of the Forum on Global Governance for Health at the Harvard Global Health Institute, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Co-Director of the Project on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development, Sustainability Science Program, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her work focuses on global governance, the evolution of international regimes, the political economy of global health, and innovative policies for addressing global problems. Previously, she worked for the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) international Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. She has also consulted for MSF, Oxfam, the Medicines Patent Pool, UNAIDS, UNITAID and the World Health Organization. Dr. Moon is a member of the Board of Directors of MSF-USA, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative-North America, the expert Proposal Review Committee of UNITAID, and the Global Advisory Committee of the WHO project on local production for access to medical products. She received a B.A. in History from Yale University, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Matthew Myers, J.D., The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Mr. Myers is President and Founding Member of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a leader in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the United States and around the world. Mr. Myers served as a close advisor to the State Attorneys General in the 1990s when they sued the tobacco industry. He participated in numerous negotiations that led to the first ever settlement with a tobacco company- an agreement that broke the tobacco industry’s unity and resulted in the release of previously secret tobacco industry documents. In 1999, Mr. Myers was appointed to serve on the first tobacco advisory committee to the Director General of the World Health Organization. Mr. Myers and the Campaign later participated in the negotiations that led to the adoption of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and also helped found the Framework Convention Alliance. In 2000, Mr. Myers was named by President Clinton to co-chair a Presidential Commission to develop a proposal to both address the economic problems being experienced by tobacco farmers and their communities and promote the public health through a reduction in tobacco use. Over the last 25 years, Mr. Myers has participated in virtually every major US tobacco-related legislative effort and has worked with state tobacco prevention advocates and officials Nationwide.
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Akinbode Oluwafemi, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria Mr. Oluwafemi is the Director, of the Corporate Accountability Campaign, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth,Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Nigeria’s foremost environmental rights advocacy group. Previously, Mr. Oluwafemi was a journalist with The Guardian, Nigeria’s leading national newspaper, where he participated in the press freedom struggles during the despotic rule of the Late General Sanni Abacha. In 2000, Mr. Oluwafemi took up the additional challenge of designing and implementing ERA/FoEN’s tobacco control programme. He has since then been active in both national and international tobacco control activities, including monitoring and exposing corporate abuses by tobacco companies, organizing workshops for parliamentarians and government officials, mobilizing press coverage for tobacco control both in the Nigerian and international media, and lobbying the Nigerian government to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Among the major legislative accomplishments influenced by Mr. Oluwafemi’s work are: the restriction of a number of marketing and promotional activities of tobacco companies, the declaration of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, as smoke-free, and the passage of a comprehensive National Tobacco Control Bill by the Nigerian parliament. His organization won the maiden edition of the Bloomberg Global Tobacco Control Award. Mr. Oluwafemi graduated from the University of Ilorin. Alexander A. Padilla, Ministry of Health, Philippines Attorney Padilla is a human rights lawyer and an expert in constitutional law who has headed government agencies in the Philippines and an equally diverse list of private sector firms and NGOs. Mr. Padilla entered government in 1986 as the youngest Customs Commissioner. He was then appointed to various ranking legal positions, including Senior State Prosecutor for the Department of Justice and Special Prosecutor for the Office of the Ombudsman. He entered the health sector as Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Department of Health, and was later promoted to Undersecretary of Health Regulations. His accomplishments include: crafting revised rules and regulations for the Philippine milk code that banned advertisements for infant milk formula; crafting Philippine policies in line with the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, and implementation of the Tobacco Reform Act that banned advertisements of tobacco in areas deemed not points of sale; and crafting and implementing the rules and regulations for the Cheaper Medicines Act. Attorney Padilla served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the UHC, the Phlippine health insurance corporation. Attorney Padilla graduated cum laude from De La Salle University and garnered his law degree from the University of the Philippines.
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Guillermo Paraje, Ph.D., Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Guillermo Paraje is Full Professor at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) in Chile, and consultant for several international organizations (WHO, PAHO, ECLAC, The World Bank, UNDP, etc.). He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Cambridge and two Masters in Economics, one from University of Cambridge and the other from Georgetown University. Before joining the UAI, he was Economist at the World Health Organization, where he worked in Health Equity topics. His areas of expertise include Health Equity, Income Distribution and Development Economics. He has published in several peer-reviewed magazines (Science, the Pan American Journal of Public Health, IJEqH, etc.) and presented his work in peer-reviewed Congresses (the Econometric Society, LACEA, ISEqH, iHEA, etc.). Currently, he is leading a team working on the impact of tobacco prices on consumption in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador, with IDRC funding. Armando Peruga, M.D., Dr.P.H., M.P.H., World Health Organization Dr. Peruga is the Programme Manager for the World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative. A citizen of Spain, he studied Medicine at Zaragoza University (1973-79). He later graduated from Masters (1982) and Doctoral (1991) programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In Spain, he was the Dean of the National School of Public Health and later became the director of the Research Institute on Health and Welfare in Madrid. In the early 1990’s, he worked for the Washington DC’s Commission of Public Health as a Behavioral Epidemiologist. He began work with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in 1990. He was the leader of PAHO’s tobacco control team until the beginning of 2006, when he moved to Geneva as the Coordinator for the capacity building unit of the Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) of the World Health Organization. Bungon Ritthipkakdee, M.S.W., South-East Asian Tobacco Alliance Ms. Ritthipkakdee is the founder and director of Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), the regional network for tobacco control in ASEAN countries. Under her leadership, SEATCA has established a greater cooperation between government and civil society as well as researchers and advocates at both national and regional levels, to advance tobacco control policy and promote the implementation of effective evidence-based tobacco control measures in ASEAN countries. She was also a founder and director of Action on Smoking and Health Foundation (ASH) Thailand (1991-2000). She worked closely with the Ministry of Health to introduce some of the best tobacco control policies in Thailand, including the Tobacco Control Law, a tobacco taxation policy, and the establishment of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (funded by 2% surcharged tobacco and alcohol taxes). In 1990, she coordinated a local network to campaign against US pressure to open the Thai cigarette market. She was a recipient of a prestigious Luther Terry Award in 2006 for Outstanding Individual Leadership and the WHO award on Tobacco Control in 2001.
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The Honorable Nicola Roxon, MP, Former Attorney General and Minister of Health, Australia Ms. Roxon is a Member of the Australian Parliament. She served as health minister in the Labor Government from 2007-20011 and then as Attorney-General from 2011 until earlier this month. During her ministerial term, she oversaw major health reforms, including the introduction of plain packaging for all tobacco products sold in Australia and successfully defended a challenge to those laws in Australia’s High Court. She has received national and international awards in recognition of her public health work. John Seffrin, Ph.D., American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Dr. Seffrin has been the chief executive of the American Cancer Society since 1992, and leads the Society’s nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. He currently serves on the White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health, is a past president of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), and has served as chairman of the board of Independent Sector. Among his many appointments and affiliations, Dr. Seffrin was a charter member of C-Change, was appointed to the National Cancer Policy Board, and co-chaired the National Cancer Legislation Advisory Board. He led the creation of the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids (now the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids), serving as its initial board chair. He served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Advisory Committee to Congress on Tobacco Policy and Public Health; and the US Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. Dr. Seffrin is a globally recognized speaker and author and has received numerous honorary doctorates in recognition of his more than three decades of leadership in the worldwide cancer fight. Robert Stumberg, J.D., L.L.M., Georgetown University Mr. Stumberg is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the Harrison Institute for Public Law. The Institute teaches policy skills to law students and provides legal and policy services to governments and civil society in a range of areas – climate, health, food, labor, and trade policy. His recent writing on trade policy includes Safeguards for Tobacco Control: Options for the TPPA (2013), Procurement and Decent Work (2010), NAFTA Services & Climate Change (2009), and WTO Services & the Environment (2008). He received his B.A. from Macalester College; and his J.D. and L.L.M. from Georgetown University.
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Debby Sy, LL.B., LL.M., Harrison Institute, Georgetown University Ms. Sy is a legal consultant in global health and international economic law. She provides legal advice to public officials in the Philippines on various aspects of public health. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Harrison Institute of the Georgetown University Law Center and legal advisor to Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) on tobacco control, international trade, and legal training. She is a recipient of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Alumni Award for Excellence in Tobacco Control Advocacy. She graduated with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center with a Masters of Law in Global Health and Certificate of WTO Studies. She earned both her law degree (dean’s medal) and degree business economics (cum laude) at the University of the Philippines where she had also been engaged to develop Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) programs. She is also a lecturer of MCLE courses on substantive, procedural, and international law relating to tobacco control. Constantine Vardavas, M.D., Ph.D., R.N., M.P.H., European Respiratory Society Dr. Vardavas is a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Global Tobacco Control of the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center of the Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece. He is actively engaged in tobacco control at a European level, as a member of the tobacco control committee of the European Respiratory Society. Over the past years he has closely collaborated with a number of universities and institutions within the context of international projects on tobacco package labeling, secondhand smoke exposure and its health effects, as also the implementation of tobacco control policies. He is currently also the co Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Tobacco Induced Diseases. Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, Dr.P.H., Thammasat University, Thailand Dr. Vichit-Vadakan currently serves as the Dean of the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University in Thailand. Highlights of his accomplishment include an instrumental role in the establishment of both the Faculty of Public Health and the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University. His research in areas of air pollution and health as well as tobacco control have produced numerous publications and led to various national policy and intervention, most notably, the elimination of lead from gasoline, the establishment of national air quality standards, and implementation of environmental mitigation measures. He continues to serve as the lead negotiator for Thailand at the Conference of the Parties for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) which is the first international health treaty and chaired major committees at the Conference of the Parties. For his work related to WHO FCTC, he was awarded with WHO World No Tobacco Day Award for Southeast Asia Region in 2011.
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Douglas Webb, Ph.D., United Nations Development Program Dr. Webb is a social scientist currently based in New York with the United Nations Development Programme, as a cluster leader in the HIV, Health and Development programmes. From 2008-2011 he worked with UNICEF in Ethiopia managing adolescent development, child protection, HIV prevention and care work. He was the Chief of the Children and AIDS Section in the East and Southern Africa Regional Office of UNICEF in Kenya (2004-8). He was the HIV/ AIDS Adviser for Save the Children UK (2000-2004) in London as well as the vice chair of the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development. He worked as a research officer for UNICEF Zambia (1995-1997) and UNICEF Mozambique (1998), as well conducting research with the Southern African AIDS Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) in 1997-8. Dr. Webb obtained his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1995, examining social responses to HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Namibia in contexts of political transition. He was a member of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS (JLICA) 2006-8. He is the author of HIV and AIDS in Africa and coeditor of Social Protection for Africa’s Children. Dmitry Yanin, KONFOP, Confederation of the Consumer Protection Unions, Russian Federation Mr. Yanin actively participated in developing a national tobacco control strategy for Russia for the period 2010-2015, which was signed by the government in September 2010. The document obliges Russia to increase tobacco taxes to the average level of the EU by 2015 and adopt FCTC provisions on a total advertising ban and smoking ban in public places. Mr. Yanin is a member of the Russian governmental expert council on developing a government strategy for Russia on tax and health policy. In 2011, he provided consultation to the World Health Organization to help improve the tobacco tax system. KONFOP is an NGO designed to promote legislative initiatives targeted at decreasing smoking prevalence in Russia. KONFOP has been active in drafting legislation to protect the population from the dangers of tobacco smoke. It has been approved by the Russian Parliament and awaits signature by the President. KONFOP also provides guidance and assistance to other CIS countries, including Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in implementing pictorial warnings on the cigarette packs. KONFOP has collaborated over the past 4 years with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK) to advance its mission to protect consumer rights by reducing the risk to the public from dangerous products.
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Amit Yadav, Public Health Foundation of India Amit Yadav holds LL.M (with two Gold Medals) and M.Phil degrees from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He works as a Legal Consultant at the Public Health Foundation of India and as a Manager-Legal at Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth. He is responsible for various advocacy and capacity building efforts in public health law, particularly in tobacco control. He guides policy research on health issues and provides legal input on public health laws, public interest litigations, all policy related outcomes and activities including preparation of policy briefs and policy recommendations based on the project results. He has a keen interest in various aspects of public health having experience of handling wide range of legal research on public health laws and policies including the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, Right to Information Act, Consumer Protection Act, National Health Bill, Alternative Reproduction Treatment Bill etc. He is a member of the Institutional Review Boards of the Indian Institute of Public Health, New Delhi and the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi. A registered advocate with the Bar Council of India, he is also member of the Delhi and Saket Bar Associations in New Delhi. Soon-Young Yoon, Ph.D., UN Representative for the International Alliance of Women, Dr. Yoon is a UN representative for the International Alliance of Women and Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women/NY. Dr. Yoon received her A.B. in French literature with honors and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. She was a Social Development officer for UNICEF in the Southeast Asia office as well as the Social Scientist at WHO/SEARO in New Delhi. She serves as a board member of the Global Advisory Council at the Harvard AIDS Initiative, Women’s Environment and Development Organization and the International Foundation for Ewha Womans University. Yoon has worked as a senior advisor/ consultant for the World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative. A former columnist for the EarthTimes newspaper, she is co-editor with Dr. Jonathan Samet of the WHO monograph, Gender, Women, and the Tobacco Epidemic.
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