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Merchant

Creating a Tobacco-Free Environment for Students: Advocacy on Tobacco

Sales within 100 Yards of Mumbai Schools Lata Sawant

Study to assess impact of Anti Tobacco advertisements in cinema - Oswal Kunal

Tobacco Cessation in Women in Urban Slum Community of Mumbai, India

Sheetal Kulkarni

11.15 AM

11.30 AM TEA BREAK

11.30 AM

12.45 PM

Inaugural

Ceremony

Rustam

ChoksiHall

Welcome AddressA K Dcruz, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital

Introducing the theme of Congress Prakash Gupta, Director, Healis

Felicitation of WHO World No Tobacco Day award winners - Nata Menabde, WHO Representative, India

Felicitation of Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation tobacco control award winners Padmini Somani, Director, Salaam Bombay

Foundation

Release of Global SLT report Nata Menabde, WHO Representative, India

Address by Amal Pusp, Director, MoHFW Introduction of the special guest

Address by Chief Guest- Nata Menabde, WHO Representative, India

Vote of Thanks Surendra Shastri, Tata Memorial Hospital

12.45 PM -

01.00 PM

Lecture Hall Interaction with Media

01.00 PM

02.00 PMLUNCH

TIMINGSESSIONFORMAT TOPIC CHAIRS SUB-TOPICS

02.00 PM -

03.00 PM

Opening

Plenary

RustamChoksi Hall

Smokeless Tobacco and

Public Health: A GlobalPerspective

Samira Asma,

Mark Parascandola

A Global Perspective on Smokeless Tobacco - Mark Parascandola (National

Cancer Institute, USA)

Smokeless Tobacco : Seeing from the Regional Lens of Southeast Asia

Dhirendra Sinha (WHO - SEARO)

Smokeless Tobacco : The Indian Context and Public Policy Strategies -Prakash

Gupta (Healis)

Panel An interactive dialogue moderated by Samira Asma (Centers for Disease

Control, USA) Amal Pusp, MoHFW

Vineet Munish Gill , WHO

Nandita Murukutla , World Lung Foundation

Pankaj Chaturvedi, Tata Memorial Hospital

Vandana Shah, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

Dhirendra Sinha, WHO SEARO

Prakash Gupta, Healis

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Proffered

Papers 4

Lecture Hall

Population based

survey and prevalence

Gauravi Mishra,Surabhi Shastri

Ashima Sarin

Arunkumar Kulkarni

"Smoking patterns, quit attempts and nicotine dependence of current daily

smokers among males in rural Kerala early results of a community

intervention trial" Jayakrishnan Radhakrishnan

Moving towards a tobacco-free workplace - Zahra Merchant

Conflicts of interest in tobacco control in India an exploratory study

Neethi Rao Assessing compliance to Indian tobacco control legislation at Point of Sales in

Tehri district Uttarakhand Govind Kumar

Evaluation of surveillance system for tobacco-related cancers in Delhi

Rajesh Yadav

The Process of Developing a Fully Integrated Tobacco Curriculum in South

Indian Medical Colleges - B.Unnikrishnan

01.15 PM

02.00 PMLUNCH BREAK

02.00 PM

03.30 PM

Open forum

discussion

Rustam Choksi

Hall

Challenges in tobacco

control in IndiaPankaj Chaturvedi

Moderator

Panelists: P C Gupta, Healis-Sheksaria Institute for Public Health

Jagdish Kaur,Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Jayant Kumar Banthia, Government of Maharashtra

Shekhar Bajaj, Bajaj Electricals Ltd.

Justice Mukul Mudgal

Padmini Somani, Salaam Bombay Foundation

Vishwanathan, University of Harvard

Kunal Saxena, Rusan Healthcare Ltd

03.30 PM 03.45 PM

TEA BREAK

03.45 PM 05.30 PM

Closing

PlenaryRustam Choksi

Hall

Multi Sectoral Action on

Tobacco Control inIndia

K C Samria

Vineet Munish Gill,Purvish Parikh,

Conference Declaration- Mira Aghi and Pranay Lal

Ban on gutkha and paan masala : Maharashtra experience Mahesh Zagade,

Government of Maharashtra

Tobacco taxation initiative in Rajasthan Praveen Gupta, Government of

Rajasthan

Illicit trade in tobacco control and related interventions P K Das, Central

Board of Excise and Customs

Gutka ban compliance report Pradeep Krishnatray, John Hopkins University Crop Alternatives: Government Perspective -Anuradha Vemuri, Ministry of

Agriculture

Mainstreaming Bidi Workers Through Alternative Livelihoods - Bhavna

Mukhopadhyay, Voluntary Health Association of India

Closing remarks Pankaj Chaturvedi, President, Scientific Committee 3rd

NCTOH

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