Webinar: Tailoring the Messages and the Medicines to Optimize Cessation Interventions
April 14, 2010
Join SAMHSA and the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) on April 14, 2010 at 1-2:30pm ET for our next webinar titled, “Tailoring the Messages and the Medicines to Optimize Cessation Interventions,” presented by Stephen Michael, MS, director of the Arizona Smokers’ Helpline. Stephen will discuss how integrating tobacco cessation as a treatment issue rather than a lifestyle issue enhances the ability to help people quit tobacco use. This presentation will include the following topics: learnings from other addiction services that can be tailored for tobacco cessation; whether tobacco quitlines can really work as an intervention strategy; and how partnering can benefit both programs and consumers. Click here to register for this free webinar. This webinar will be recorded and can be viewed online post-webinar from the SCLC’s website. For questions, contact Reason Reyes, SCLC technical assistance manager, at reason.reyes@ucsf.edu, or call (877) 509-3786.

Promising Practices: Achieving Health and Social Equity in Tobacco Control
April 27-28, 2010
New Orleans, LA
The next national Break Free Alliance & NAATEN conference will take place April 27-28, 2010 in New Orleans. The Break Free Alliance and the National African American Tobacco Education Network, both programs of the Health Education Council, are hosting this conference as a follow-up to our first successful 2008 conference in Detroit. The conference focuses its efforts on reducing the burden of tobacco use in low socioeconomic status and ethnic minority populations. Our conference tracks for 2010 will focus on a new era in tobacco control: Track A –Integrating Tobacco Control and Chronic Disease Prevention; Track B – Increasing Access to Prevention, Education and Cessation; and Track C – Yes We Can! – Influencing Policy, Legislation and Health Care Reform. Click here for more details, or click here to register. Visit the event website often for updates.

Tobacco Documents Workshop: Putting the Tobacco Industry’s Words to Work for You
May 21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
The University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, an interdisciplinary research community, announces a one-day workshop on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy. The workshop will cover: introduction to tobacco industry documents databases, including the multimedia database; hands-on practice searching and extracting key industry documents under the supervision of expert documents researchers; examples of ways in which the documents can be of use to promote tobacco-free communities; and opportunities to network and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates. Applications for a 2010 Legacy Travel Scholarship to Increase Diversity may be requested. The deadline for the scholarships application is April 12, 2010. Click here for more information. To register for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Lau, Jennifer.Lau@ucsf.edu.

World No Tobacco Day 2010
May 31, 2010
World No Tobacco Day is celebrated around the world every year on May 31. This yearly celebration informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, what the World Health Organization (WHO) is doing to fight the tobacco epidemic, and what people around the world can do to claim their right to health and healthy living and to protect future generations. WHO has selected "Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women" as the theme for the next World No Tobacco Day. World No Tobacco Day 2010 will give overdue recognition to the importance of controlling the epidemic of tobacco among women. Click here for more information.

Tribal Institute on Commercial Tobacco: Integrating Chronic Disease Interventions
June 3-4, 2010
Albuquerque, NM
The National Native Commercial Tobacco Abuse Prevention Network hopes you are planning to join us at the Tribal Institute on Commercial Tobacco: Integrating Chronic Disease Interventions. The Tribal Institute will offer four educational training tracks. Each track will highlight the integration of commercial tobacco abuse prevention and control into chronic disease interventions: Surveillance and Evaluation; Integrating Commercial Tobacco into Chronic Disease/Allied Health; Policy Advocacy; and Media Advocacy. Registration is now open! Click here for more details, or click here to view the Save the Date announcement. Registration and scholarship forms are available on the website. Apply now for a travel scholarship – the deadline is April 9! Click here for more information and a scholarship application.

APPEAL 15th Anniversary Conference
June 3-4, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Save the date! Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment, Advocacy and Leadership (APPEAL) will hold its 15th anniversary conference in San Francisco in June. More details will soon be posted on APPEAL’s website.

The BACCHUS Network presents the 8th National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults - Building Momentum: Competencies for Leading Change
June 13 - 15, 2010
College Park, Maryland
The National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults will help participants develop and strengthen tobacco control programming. This is the only professional development opportunity specifically focused on tobacco control for college campuses and community partners in the nation. Conference participants will learn to: develop programming around campus policy development; gain support from campus key stakeholders; counter common arguments against strengthened tobacco policies; assist students in developing a Quit Plan; develop campus cessation programs on a limited budget; identify new tobacco products; recognize tobacco industry marketing tactics; effectively utilize students in tobacco education/ awareness work. For more information, to register, and/or to submit a breakout program, please go to www.tobaccofreeU.org.

18th Annual NALBOH Conference
August 5-7, 2010
Omaha, NE
The National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) would like to announce its 18th Annual conference, Journey to the Future: Facing Public Health Challenges Today for a Healthier Tomorrow. Online registration is now open. Click here for more information about the conference.

National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media
August 17 - 19, 2010
Atlanta, GA
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be holding the fourth annual National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media. Abstract submissions for the Conference opened in early March; more information will provided as it becomes available. Click here for more information.

APACT 2010 Conference: Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health
October 6 – 9, 2010
Sydney, Australia
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) is pleased to partner with the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco (APACT) to bring evidence-based solutions to the tobacco control issues faced by healthcare providers, advocates and others in the Asia/Pacific region. The APACT conference is the premier tobacco control conference for the Asia Pacific, with the 2010 conference focusing on Change, challenge and progress: FCTC in the Asia Pacific. APACT 2010 aims to encourage tobacco control and public health advocates, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and especially youth leaders, to share experiences and discuss strategies for implementation of the FCTC. Early bird registration will open soon. Click here to visit the conference website.

APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition
November 6-10, 2010
Denver, CO
The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world, attracting more than 13,000 national and international physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists. This year’s theme is "Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative." Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health experience with your peers. Click here for a conference overview.

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