Training
Tobacco Control Research Conference 2014
Flyer – UCT Tobacco Conference 2014
Conference Day 1:
Welcome and Introductions:
Keynote Address:
Session 1: Surveillance of tobacco use
- Lara Kruger – Waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in the Western Cape Province of South Africa Differences and similarities with cigarette smoking
- Daniel Kabodera – Prevalence and factors associated with current tobacco use among youth in Uganda Results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2011
- Bukola Olutola – Socio-economic correlates of snuff use in South Africa during 2003 – 2011
- Paul Ebusu – Predictors of Smoking among Ugandan adolescent between 2007 and 2011
- Linda Nyabongo – Socio-economic determinants of tobacco use in the Southern African Customs Union
Session 2: the demand for tobacco
- Grieve Chelwa – Price & income elasticities of demand in Uganda
- Ernst Tingum – The Demand for Cigarette in Tanzania and its Implication on Tobacco Taxation Policy
- Nicole Vellios – Determinants of smoking initiation in South Africa
- Grieve Chelwa – Assessing the causal impact of tobacco expenditure on households’ spending decisions in Zambia
- Lisa Lau – Neighbourhood deprivation and smoking
Conference Day 2:
Special session on tobacco and trade:
- Donald Makoka – The FCTC and the Pattern of Unmanufactured Tobacco Exports in Malawi
- Peter Magati – Promoting Coordination, Cooperation and Collaborative Agreements among Government Agencies in Tobacco Control in Kenya
- Diana Nyabongo – A study of the causes of the real net-of-tax cigarette price increases in South Africa (1990-2012)
Keynote Address:
Session 3: Tobacco control policy:
- Femi Popoola – By their words A critical discourse analysis of stakeholders viewpoints on the Nigerian Tobacco Control Bill
- Jodie Posen – The impact of excise tax harmonization in the East African Community
- Lerato Shai – Illicit trade in South Africa. Can we trust the industry rhetoric
- Joyce Jakavula – Trends in secondhand smoke exposure among South African Adolescents during 1999-2011
- Emma Wanyonyi – Factors associated with schools personnel’s support for tobacco free policies in Uganda
Keynote Address:
Conference Day 3:
Special session on the economics of alcohol policy: (Chair: Tomas Roubal – WHO)
- Michael Daly – Alcohol advertising tends 1997 – 2013
- Evan Blecher – Alcohol affordabilty in South Africa
- Corne Van Walbeek – Alcohol tax, price and consumption
Session 4: Tobacco agriculture