---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:16:33 -0400 From: Ayesha Khan <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] We will offer two courses this summer on Tobacco Control which may be of interest to your subscribers, and I would like permission to post it on the CANCHID list mailing list. Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Announces: A One Week Session on Tobacco Control June 18-22, 2001 Instructors: Jonathan Samet, Marion Ceraso and Allyn Taylor Tobacco Control: National and International Approaches (M - F, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon) Topics include: The Health and Economic Burden of Tobacco Use Globalization of the Epidemic A Review of Lung Cancer Interpreting the Evidence on Tobacco and Health The Tobacco Industry The Role of Litigation in Tobacco Control Tobacco Control Strategies The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Invited Lecturers include: Jack Henningfield (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), Lawrence Kleinberg (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) Michele Bloch (National Cancer Institute), Robert Weissman (Essential Action). The WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control: Advancing Global Public Health (M - F, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.) Topics include: The Treaty Negotiation Process Review of the Chair’s Draft of a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Advertising and Free Speech Issues and the FCTC Compensation and Liability Issues and the FCTC Tobacco Trade and the FCTC Smuggling and the FCTC Mobilizing NGOs and Civil Society Invited Lecturers include: Ruth Roemer (University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health), Paul Szasz (New York University Law School), Judy Wilkenfeld (National Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids), Sean Murphy (George Washington University National Law Center, Ayda Yurekli (The World Bank), Douglas Bettcher (World Health Organization), Luk Joossens (International Union Against Cancer)