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County Health Rankings 2014 release and webinar
March 26, 2014 at 12:30-1:30pm Eastern Time
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will be releasing its County Health Rankings 2014 and hosting a webinar outlining the contents of this annual report. For the first time ever, this year's Rankings release will include a Key Findings report highlighting trends at the regional and national level. This report will offer an in-depth look at how five featured measures-children in poverty, college attendance, preventable hospital stays, smoking, and physical inactivity-are influencing health nationwide.

Webinar: Strengthening Partnerships between Community Health Centers and Quitlines
March 27, 2014 at 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Time
This webinar describes how Cease Smoking Today, a collaborative of universities and national organizations, partnered with Break Free Alliance, the North Carolina Community Health Center Association and Alere Wellbeing to identify ways that Community Health Centers and telephone quitlines can partner to increase patient utilization of quitlines.

Webinar: Kill the Butts! Policy Options for Reducing Cigarette and Other Tobacco Product Waste
March 27, 2014 at 1:00-2:00pm Eastern Time
This Tobacco Control Legal Consortium webinar will provide information about the problem of tobacco product waste, relevant environmental principles, and several policy options. The webinar will also describe efforts underway to reduce tobacco product waste.

Webinar: Up in Smoke? The Beginning of the End of Combustible Tobacco Products
March 31, 2014 at 12:30-2:30pm Eastern Time
Washington, DC
Legacy will host the first in a series of thought leader panel discussions that delve deeper into one of the key findings from the 2014 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. The event will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and will be live-webcast and archived for a national audience.

Public Listening Session for the Office of Science, Center for Tobacco Products, FDA
April 5, 2014 at 6:00-8:30pm Pacific Time
San Diego, CA
The Office of Science in the Center for Tobacco Products is holding a public listening session in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Senior staff from the Office of Science will be present to hear relevant presentations from members of the public who have registered to present by March 27 (deadline extended!). This is not a session of AACR and you do not have to be registered for the AACR meeting in order to attend or present at the FDA public listening session. This session will not be webcast, but a transcript will be available and posted online in May 2014.

Reduce Tobacco Use Conference 2014
April 10-11, 2014
Arlington, VA
Co-hosted by the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and Prevention Connections, this conference will address tobacco and nicotine use prevention and reduction strategies for youth and young adults including working with priority populations, policy, research and evaluation, best practices, cessation and social media and marketing. Speakers will include representatives from the CDC, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and Dr. Victor DeNoble, a renowned expert in tobacco addiction, as well as many more knowledgeable and engaging presenters.

Webinar: Ask the Experts: e-Cigarettes, Hookah, and Other Smokeless Tobacco Products
April 17, 2014 at 2:30pm-3:30pm Eastern Time
CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) is bringing together a panel of notable experts to answer webinar participants’ questions about e-cigarettes and other tobacco products. The experts of the panel are Naomi R. Brown, the owner of A & E Therapy, Inc. and a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist, and Dr. Steven A. Schroeder, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF, where he also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.

Counter Tools Training Institute: Getting Started at the Point of Sale
April 24-25, 2014
Chapel Hill, NC
This is a two-day, interactive training to help tobacco control and public health workers from state and local health departments and voluntary organizations get started with point-of-sale (POS), or ramp up existing POS efforts. The Counter Tools Training Institute will take place in the classroom and in the field. Attendees will visit local tobacco retailers to conduct store audits. Session topics include making the case for POS, the policy change process, assessing your POS priorities, and others.

Promising Practices to Promote Tobacco-Free Active Living and Healthy Eating in Low Socioeconomic Status Communities
April 28-29, 2014
Washington, DC
The Health Education Council’s Break Free Alliance is organizing this practice-based conference, to bring together a broad range of participants who are invested in creating and sustaining health equity and healthy communities. The principal goal of this conference is to promote change at policy, systems and environmental levels to improve the health of low socioeconomic status populations.

Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop: Putting the tobacco industry's words to work for you
May 9, 2014
San Francisco, CA
Hosted by the University of California, San Francisco, this is a one-day workshop on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy. The deadline to apply for a Legacy Travel Scholarship to Increase Diversity is April 8, 2014.

National Minority Research Symposium on Tobacco & Addictions
May 14-15, 2014
Little Rock, AR
This symposium from the Minority Research Center (MRC) on Tobacco and Addictions at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff serves a platform for the exchange of best practices, knowledge and resources regarding the prevention of tobacco use and other addictive substances within minority communities. This symposium aims to bring together a broad range of participants.

National Conference on Tobacco and Behavioral Health
May 19-20, 2014
Bethesda, MD
The goal of this conference is to provide a platform for attendees to share their perspectives on how the health system working collaboratively can decrease these statistics. Focusing on integration, interventions, and the impact of the ACA (insurance), participants will have the opportunity to hear from and exchange ideas with national leaders, public health cessation experts, policy makers, researchers, and behavioral health prevention and treatment experts on current cessation activities.

World No Tobacco Day
May 31, 2014
Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners everywhere mark World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. For World No Tobacco Day 2014, WHO and partners call on countries to raise taxes on tobacco.

Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, IX
September 28-October 1, 2014
Lake Tahoe, CA
Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy (IX) is a three-day skills-building and strategy planning Institute designed to enhance awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke, share recent science and economic data and first-hand experiences, and expand the capacity of smoke-free advocates, researchers, and other public health professionals nationwide. The meeting is hosted by the Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation and sponsored in part by the American Heart Association, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Legacy, and California’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.

American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition
October 11-14, 2014
San Diego, CA
The American Academy of Pediatrics invites all involved in medicine to attend its conference in San Diego. Registration for this event will begin on Monday, June 2, 2014. The abstract submission deadline for poster presentations relating to tobacco and child health is April 11, 2014. Click here to learn more about the call for papers.

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition
November 15-19, 2014
New Orleans, LA
The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition will draw more than 13,000 public health professionals from around the globe to network, discuss and share the latest in public health research and policy. The theme of the meeting is Healthography: How Where you Live Affects Your Health and Well-being.

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