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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

CTCRE Symposium in February

Mark your calendars!

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at UCSF is pleased to host the symposium and poster session:

It’s About a Billion Lives:
Advances in Tobacco Control
Celebrating Five Years of Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 8:00A - 12:00P
505 Parnassus Ave., UCSF, Health Sciences West, Room 303

Presentations include:

Social and Economic Determinants of Smoking in Rich and Poor Countries: Evidence for Reverse Health Disparities?
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
President, American Cancer Society and Director, Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center

Unselling Smokes: Reversing Tobacco Marketing Strategies
Pamela M. Ling, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Industry Efforts to Undermine the World Bank and WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Hadii M. Mamudu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow

The symposium will also have a poster session featuring work that is not included in the oral presentations.

For information or to present a poster, contact Jenni Alexander at 415-502-6341 or jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.

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