8:00h. Arrival & registration
8:30h Welcome
Manel Balcells, Ministry of Health, Government of Catalonia; Ramon Salazar, Director General, Catalan Institute of Oncology; Angela Ciobanu, Officer, WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of NCDs; Lilia Olefir, Director, Smoke Free Partnership.
Conductors: Cristina Martínez, Catalan Institute of Oncology/WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco Control, CIBER Respiratory Diseases, University of Barcelona, Spain & Joan B. Soriano, Hospital La Princesa, Autonomous University of Madrid, CIBER Respiratory Diseases, Spain.
9:00h. Opening conference
Tobacco Control to Tobacco Endgame: The shift is happening now.
Ruth Malone, University of California San Francisco, USA (in video conference).
9:30h. Session 1. Together towards the tobacco endgame.
- Akaki Zoidze, Former member of the Parliament of Georgia, WHO consultant, Georgia
- Allen Gallagher, University of Bath, UK
- Hanna Ollila, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
- Raquel Fernández, Nofumadores.org, Spain
Moderator: Cristina Martínez, ICO-IDIBELL
11:00h. Session 2. Tobacco control policies: taking stock and next steps.
- Adriana Blanco, FCTC Secretariat, Switzerland
- Hebe Gouda, WHO Tobacco Free Initiative, Switzerland
- Constantine Vardavas, University of Crete, Greece
Moderator: Franciso Rodríguez-Lozano, Former President, European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention
12:15h. Finger lunch & networking break
13:30h. Session 3. People for making things happen.
- Angela Ciobanu – WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of NCDs
- Laurent Huber, ASH US, Washington, USA
- Armando Peruga – ICO-IDIBELL, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain
Moderator: Lilia Olefir, Smoke Free Partnership, Brussels, Belgium
15:00 Session 4. The Tobacco Control Scale 2022
- Luk Joossens, Smokefree Partnership, Brussels, Belgium
- Ariadna Feliu, WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco Control, ICO-IDIBELL, Spain
Moderators: Chloé Momas, Smokefree Partnership, Brussels, Belgium
16:00h. Closing conference
Tobacco control policies in the 21st century: achievements and open challenges.
Esteve Fernández, Catalan Institute of Oncology/WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco Control, CIBER Respiratory Diseases, University of Barcelona, Spain
16:30 Take-home messages & Symposium’s closing
Joan B Soriano & Cristina Martínez, Conductors of the Symposium; Esteve Fernández, Chair of the Symposium, Carmen Cabezas, Secretary of Public Health, Government of Catalonia