Global Tobacco Control: A Prevention Best Buy

"Global Tobacco Control: A Prevention Best Buy"
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
1 – 2 p.m., EDT
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This session of Grand Rounds will explore the control of tobacco use—the leading preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide. Currently, approximately 5.4 million people die each year due to tobacco-related illnesses, a figure expected to increase to more than 8 million a year by 2030. If current global trends continue, tobacco use will cause up to 1 billion deaths in the 21st century.
CDC is the lead US federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control, and CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health develops, conducts, and supports strategic efforts to protect the public’s health from the harmful effects of tobacco use. An efficient and systematic surveillance mechanism to monitor the epidemic is one of the essential components of a comprehensive tobacco control program.
Global tobacco control has been called a “best buy” in public health. Beyond monitoring of tobacco use and exposure, this session will discuss effective prevention strategies at the personal, population, and policy levels.
Future Grand Rounds topics include high impact HIV prevention and explaining the unexplained in clinical infectious diseases. All CDC employees and contractors are encouraged to attend these informative sessions.

Presented By

Joanna Cohen, PhD, MHSc
Director, Institute for Global Tobacco Control
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Public Health Response to It”
Samira Asma, DDS, MPH
Branch Chief, Global Tobacco Control Branch
Office on Smoking and Health, CDC
“Global Surveillance of Tobacco Use as a Tool for Tobacco Control”
Michael Eriksen, ScD
Professor and Director, Institute of Public Health
Georgia State University
“International Advances in Tobacco Control”

Facilitated By

Tanja Popovic, MD, PhD, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
John Iskander, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds