ASH Wales is hosting a groundbreaking Tobacco Control conference in April 2008.
Mae ASH Cymru'n cynnal cynhadledd arloesol ar Reoli Tybaco ym mis Ebrill 2008. Ewch i'n gwefan er mwyn cadw'ch lle yn y digwyddiad pwysig.
Making tobacco undesirable, unacceptable, and less accessible
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Julie Barratt is the Director Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Wales. The role involves facilitating direct liaison with the National Assembly for Wales, local authorities and non-governmental organisations within Wales, promoting and representing Chartered Institute of Environmental Health policies in a Welsh context, as well as raising the profile of environmental health within the Principality.
Julie qualified as Public Health Inspector in 1981, with a BSc Environmental Health from Ulster Polytechnic, and practised in Belfast, Basildon and Torfaen as a food hygiene, health and safety and health education specialist. Between 1989-92, whilst working for Torfaen Borough Council she read law through the London University (External Division) and proceeded to the Inns of Court School of Law in 1992, being called to the Bar in 1993. She practised law , in private practice and latterly as Operational Manager Legal Services for the Vale of Glamorgan Council until taking up her present post, specialising in environmental health, town and country planning and health and safety law.
As Director CIEH Wales she has been closely associated with campaigns in respect of the illegal meat trade, lobbying for and promoting the ban on smoking in public places, skin cancer and the use of sun beds and had led on the Allergy Strategy for Wales. She is currently a board member of the Welsh Consumer Council and is a regular contributor to BBC radio and television on consumer and environmental health related issues.
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health was commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government to carry out research into airborne particulate levels in public houses in the month immediately before the ban on smoking in public places come into force in Wales and to repeat the study 12 months after the ban has been in place, so that a direct comparison of levels can be made. Similar research in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland suggests we can expect to see very significant reductions in air borne particulates, with the consequent health gains that follow.
The paper will report on the research, covering methodology, results collected in the month before the ban came into force and will present the results obtained 12 months later, in March 2008. Comparison will be made with the position in other jurisdictions and conclusions about the potential effectiveness of the ban in protecting the health of exposed workers will be made.