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
Oliver SmithDeputy Director, Tobacco and Health & Wellbeing Policy, Department of Health
Oliver became head of the Tobacco team in the new year, having previously worked in the Cross-Government Obesity Unit where he led the writing of the strategy Health Weight, Healthy Lives and subsequently went on to take responsibility for delivery many of the programmes it set out. In his new role, Oliver is also responsible for a wide-range of cross-cutting health and wellbeing issues, such as strengthening links between the NHS and health and wellbeing.
Between 2005 and 2007, Oliver was a Strategy Adviser in the Department of Health's Strategy Unit. He worked on a diverse range of issues, often centred on the development of health reform but also including the Department's efficiency programme within the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.
Prior to working in the Department of Health, Oliver was a Policy Adviser within the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, involved in projects on energy, policing, and housing amongst many others. He has also worked as a strategy consultant for OC&C Strategy Consultants.