ASH Wales is pleased to present an international conference – Tipping the Balance: Tackling Health Inequalities through Tobacco Control. 

Please join ASH Wales for this exciting and innovative two-day conference that will give you powerful new tools to enhance your tobacco control prevention and cessation efforts with today’s youth and adults. Come and hear tobacco control experts from across the UK and abroad speak about the latest strategies, policies, research and innovative approaches to tackling health inequalities through tobacco control.

This is a must attend conference for those working in tobacco control policy, as well as public health professionals, smoking cessation practitioners, those working with young people, academics and researchers working in tobacco and public health.
   
Sessions will include:

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Smoking – Professor Amanda Amos, Professor of Health Promotion, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

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The experience of plain packaging in Australia: early responses of smokers and the tobacco industry – Professor Melanie Wakefield, Director and NHMRC Principle Research Fellow, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia

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Towards a Tobacco Free Ireland and implementing a Ban on Smoking in Cars Carrying Children- Dr Fenton Howell, National Tobacco Control Advisor, Department of Health, Ireland

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The Scale and Extent of Illicit Tobacco – Luk Joossens, Tobacco Control Expert, Belgian Foundation against Cancer, International Expert on Illicit Tobacco Trade. 

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Development and Feasibility of a Novel Intervention to Reduce Second Hand Smoking in the Home – Dr Laura Jones, Lecturer, Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham

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Optimising Outcomes for Pre-Op Patients – Dr Sharon Hopkins, Director of Public Health for Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board

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Smoking in Pregnancy Research Pilots in Wales: Models for Access to Maternal Smoking cessation Support (MAMSS) – Dr Shantini Paranjothy, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, Cardiff University

Find out more at www.ashwales.org.uk/ashwalesconference/