With just over three months before the 1st Africa Conference on Tobacco Control and Development, organisers have extended the deadline for the call for abstracts.
Prospective applicants now have until July 31, 2021 to submit their abstracts. Abstracts can be submitted on the conference website: www.actd.africa
The conference is themed Tobacco Free Africa: An urgent call for joint action and is aimed at bringing together all the tobacco control actors on the continent.
The virtual conference will run over four days from September 27 until 30. Over the four days, there are three sub themes and nine research tracks that will be discussed. This covers tobacco control policy, tobacco use and surveillance.
The research tracks have been divided into three sub themes: Strides towards tobacco police and development, , Understanding the context for tobacco use and development and Tobacco use surveillance for development.
The nine tracks are as follows:
SUBTHEME ONE: STRIDES TOWARDS TOBACCO POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT
TRACK A: Policy and strategy; Tobacco Control Law; Feasibility of roll out and effectiveness, and robustness of tobacco control policies & strategies
TRACK C: Programming and Implementation Science; evidence-based interventions-enablers and obstacles; Strategies to penetrate grassroot populations/communities
Track F: The workforce and effective tobacco control
SUBTHEME TWO: UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT FOR TOBACCO USE AND DEVELOPMENT
TRACK B: Tobacco Control Economics and Financing; cost-effectiveness studies, cost-benefit studies, effective tax regimes, illicit trade, tobacco industry interference.
Track G: Social Cultural Values and multiple risk behaviors
Track H: Novel Products, understanding the effect of emerging products on tobacco control
SUBTHEME THREE: TOBACCO USE SURVEILLANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Track D: Tobacco use trends, Monitoring, Evaluation and Surveillance status
Track E: Alternative Livelihoods and Environment; Progress to-date
Track I: Tobacco use and COVID-19
The 1st Africa Conference on Tobacco Control and Development is being jointly hosted by the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa and the Africa Capacity Building Foundation.
