Ash Wales Communicate, Collaborate, Celebrate; Conference 2010
For a Tobacco Free Wales
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Smoke Free Futures:
Tobacco Control
Conference
- 10
- Oct 11 - 12
Speakers
Plenary Speakers
- The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM
First Minister for Wales - Professor Gerard Hastings
Institute for Social Marketing: a collaboration between the University of Stirling and The Open University - Professor Ann McNeil
Professor of Health Policy and Promotion, University of Nottingham - Chris Tudor Smith
Head, Health Improvement Division, Welsh Assembly Government - Alison Cox
ASH England - Deborah Arnott
ASH England - Kari Paaso
Director, Department for Promotion of Welfare and Health, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland - Bob Hudson
Chief Executive, Public Health Wales - Becky Freeman
Assistant Editor, Tobacco Control - Deborah Lycett
Consultant Dietician and PhD Rresearcher at the University of Birmingham
Plenary Speakers
Professor Gerard HastingsInstitute for Social Marketing: a collaboration between the University of Stirling and The Open University
Gerard holds a PhD in Social Marketing from the University of Strathclyde. He is Professor of Social Marketing at Stirling and is Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and the Cancer Research UK Centre for Tobacco Control Research. Gerard's academic career began in 1980 at the University of Strathclyde where he was appointed the first UK Professor of Social Marketing and where he founded and directed the Centre for Social Marketing. In recent years Gerard has acted as a Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organisation on tobacco and alcohol marketing as well as blinding trachoma, and a Special Advisor to the House of Commons Health Select Committee during their enquiries into the tobacco and food industries. He provides regular guidance on social and critical marketing to the Scottish, UK and European Parliaments. He has also acted as an expert witness in litigation against the tobacco industry.