Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health
Meeting Summary: April 13, 2005
Global Tobacco Epidemic
Presentations
Overview of Global Tobacco Use and Prevention
The Global Tobacco Epidemic
Corinne Husten, MD, MPH, Acting Director, Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Overview and Update on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
William R. Steiger, PhD, Director, Office of Global Health Affairs and Special Assistant to the Secretary
for International Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Efforts in Global Tobacco Control and Prevention: Capacity Building and Global Tobacco Research
Captain Aron Primack, MD, MA, Health Scientist Administrator, Fogarty International Center (FIC), National
Institutes of Health, (NIH)
Global Tobacco Surveillance System
Samira Asma, DDS, MPH, Associate Director, Global Tobacco Control Unit, Office on Smoking and Health, CDC
Global Tobacco Control: International Collaborations
Thomas Glynn, PhD, Director of Cancer Science and Trends, American Cancer Society
Economics of Global Tobacco Control
Kenneth Warner, PhD, Director, University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network, Ann Arbor, Michigan
International Efforts in Global Tobacco Control and Prevention: Country Presentations
History of Tobacco
K. Srinath Reddy, MBBS, MD, DM, MSc, Professor and Head, Department of Cardiology, All India
Institute of Medical Sciences
Improving Tobacco Control in Developing World
Mauricio Hernandez Avila, MD, DSc., General Director, Instituto Nacional De Salud Publica, Mexico
Tobacco Burden in Egypt and Efforts for Control and Prevention: Global Support
Needs in Developing Countries
Mostafa K. Mohamed, MD, PhD, Professor of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University,
Abbasyia, Cairo, Egypt
On the Road to a Tobacco–Free Ghana
Edith Koryo Wellington, MA, Senior Research Officer, Ghana Health Service-Health Reseach Unit, Adabraka Polyclinic, Ghana
Tobacco Control Achievements in Poland 1980–2004 Poland-U.S. Collaboration
Witold Zatonski, MD, PhD, Director, Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, Cancer Centre
and Institute of Oncology, Poland
Page last modified 04/28/2008
= Link to a PDF document
= Link to nonfederal Web site