The Conference Blog - Taipei

Welcome to Taipei

Where this 8th Asia Pacific Conference is taking place.

The program at a glance (pdf) or day by day:
Day 1 (Oct 17) Preconference Workshops
Day 2 (Oct 18)
Day 3 (Oct 19)
Day 4 (Oct 20)

India's anti-smoking initiatives was one the widely discussed topics at the conference yesterday.

Huang Cheng-tai, chairman of the anti-smoking non-governmental John Tung Foundation, lauded the Indian government's determination to establish a no-smoking environment, and call on the Taiwanese government to adopt similar measures.

Source: Taiwan News

Asia-Pacific Has Fastest Rise In Children, Women Smoking

The Asia-Pacific region has the world's fastest growth rate of smoking among children and women, a high-ranking World Health Organization (WHO) official highlighted today, urging the region to implement better smoke-free policies.

Source: Asia Pulse

Why this blog?

After the positive  experience of a collective blog during the COP2 conference in Bangkok we decided to conference blog again during this 8th Asia Pacific Conference  onTobacco or Health.

We thought it would be good  to have participants share their comments on line about what is happening so that the wider, global community can feel/be involved.

Until now the tobacco control community has not been using very much the web2.0 tools, including blogs.

We hope this conference can be an opportunity to introduce more tobacco control advocates to blogging.

You are welcome to  give it a try by joining the team of our contributors  (it's as simple as email).

We thought it would be good  to have participants share their comments on line about what is happening so that the wider, global community can feel/be involved.

Until now the tobacco control community has not been using very much the web2.0 tools, including blogs.

We hope this conference can be an opportunity to introduce more tobacco control advocates to blogging.

You are welcome to  give it a try by joining the team of our contributors  (it's as simple as email).

How to "conference blog"?

You are most welcome to contribute posts to this blog.

To become a co-author, please email me so I can register you and email you the information so you can access the blog. It is as simple as emailing and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any problem.

Tell me also a little about you so I can post a brief bio: readers like to know who's who.

We also need a picture :) to post in our listing of the contributors to the blog.

Thank you in advance.

Philippe

About this blog's Editor

Philippe Boucher is Blogger in residence for GLOBALink where he writes glkvideo, tc images, graphic warnings, nuigrav (in French along with la revue de presse and pour des avertissements graphiques ), smoke-free hotels, rendezvous, as well as the podcast globalink radio. He is also in charge of GLOBALink Africa a program that promotes african bloggers like Jackie Tumwine, Francisco Cabo, Pascal Bogui, Adeola Akinremi, Véronique Le Clézio. He edits African News.
GLOBALink Africa is sponsored by the Norwegian Cancer Society in collaboration with the Framework Convention Alliance.

Day 4 - October 20

9:00    Jonathan Samet: Smoke Free Environment

9:30    Homer Wei-Kwok Tso

9:55    Witold Zatonski

10:35 to 11:50  Simultaneous Session, Policy, Action Plan, Research

11:50   Dr Harley Stanton (APACT President Elect)

12:20 to 13:30  Lunch and closing ceremony

Day 3 - October 19

9:00        Judith Mackay:  Funding for tobacco control in Asia

9:30        Ken N. Kuo  Center for Health Policy Research (Taiwan)

9:55         Simon Chapman:  Most effective strategies

10:35      Wick Warren:  GTSS

11:00     Prakash Gupta:  Observations from India

11:25 to 12:20   Simultaneous session Policy, Action Plan, Research

12:20 to 13:30  LUNCH

13:30 to 17:00  3 parallel sessions

Youth against tobacco

Health professional behavior and tobacco cessation

Tobacco smuggling in Asia

Day 2 - October 18

9:00       Opening ceremony

9:40       Greg Conolly:  Can we make smoking history in our life time? 

10:35    Mei-Ling Hsiao  DOH Taiwan

11:00    Howard Koh: Taxation and public health

11:25      Hatal Chitanondh:  Nicophilanthropy and sponsorhip

11:50:    Geoffrey Fong

Lunch from 12:20 to 13:30

13:30 to 15:00    Cigarette Taxation in Asia

Prakit Vathesatogkit (Thailand), Song-June Kim (Korea)

Theresa Yoong (Singapore), Teh-Wei Hu (USA)

15:30 to 17:00    3 parallel symposia

Quit and Win in Asian countries

The future of tobacco litigation in the Asia Pacific Region

Smoke-free movie and TV   

Day 1 - October 17 - Preconference workshops

1. ITC workshop: Evaluating the evidence base for FCTC policies (METC by ITC)

2. Global Dialogue for effective stop smoking campaigns workshop: Public Education/Mass media Campaign development