Opening of Conference

Conference Chair: Dr Michael Boland, Board of the Office of Tobacco Control

Chair: Mr. Michael Kelly, Secretary General, Department of Health and Children
Mr Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Health and Children – Welcome Address
Mr David Byrne, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection – Improving the health and well being of EU citizens through tobacco control
Dr Catherine Le Galès-Camus, Assistant Director-General, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, WHO – Developing and implementing an effective global response
The Hon. Mr Justice Nial Fennelly, Judge of the Supreme Court, Ireland – Tobacco control laws in the changing EU constitutional environment
Discussion
Coffee Break

Prof. Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Oxford – The tobacco epidemic in Europe
Dr David Madden, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University College Dublin – Economics and tobacco control
Prof. David Balfour, European Chair, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco – Therapies for Tobacco Dependence
Prof. Luke Clancy, Director General, Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society, Ireland – Strategic direction for research in tobacco control in Europe
Discussion

Dr Paolo Boffetta, Chief of Gene-Environment  Epidemiology and Co-ordinator of Genetics and Epidemiology, IARC – The carcinogenicity of second-hand smoking
Dr Dimitrios Kotzias, Head of Physical and Chemical Exposure Unit, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Joint Research Centre
Dr Shane Allwright, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Trinity College Dublin – Health effects of second-hand smoke in the workplace
Discussion
Instructions for Parallel Sessions & evening arrangements

Ms Isabel Saiz, General Directorate of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, Spain – Spain's tobacco control action plan
Prof. Witold Zatónski, Director of the Cancer, Epidemiology and Prevention Division of the National Cancer Institute, Poland – Improving Poland's health through tobacco control
Ms Margaretha Haglund, Head of the Tobacco Control Programme, National Institute of Public Health, Sweden – The Swedwish Experience
Dr Gregory Connolly, Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, USA – US tobacco control policies and their impact on tobacco use
Mr Noel Usher, Director, Department of Health and Children, Ireland – Integrated tobacco control measures in Ireland

Prof. Geoffrey T. Fong, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada – International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Survey (ITCPES)
Mr Luk Joossens, Tobacco Control Manager, Belgian Federation against Cancer – Effective tobacco control policies ni 28 European countries (an ENSP project)

Discussion