3rd National Conference on Tobacco or Health: DAY 1, MONDAY, 15TH DECEMBER 2014

TIMING
8:00 AM
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SESSION
FORMAT

TOPIC

CHAIRS

SUB - TOPICS
REGISTRATIONS

Workshop 1
Lecture Hall

Effectiveness of
Pharmacotherapy and
Behavioral Interventions
for Tobacco Cessation in
Actual Clinical Practice.

Parishi Majmudar,
Rana J Singh,
Pushkar Singh

Harm Reduction not Harm Replacement Busting the Myths on NRT and
effectiveness of Tobacco Cessation in Different Settings E Vidhubala

GLOBAL TOBACCO CONTROL: DENTIST TASK FORCE- Parenting the orphan "O"
of MPOWER - Akshay Ranade, Kirti Manjerekar, Kunal Oswal

Newer forms of TAPS ban violation and absence of signage in public places in
Kerala A S Pradeep Kumar
"Assessing the Feasibility of Developing a Smoke Free Homes Initiative: Findings
From A Pilot Study In Kerala, India"- Aswathy S
Pilot international collaborative study on smokeless tobacco product
characteristics and constituent levels Prakash Gupta
"A decade of tobacco news aggregation, analysis and dissemination for
increasing accountability, monitoring, evaluation and vigilance"- Bobby
Ramakant
Mobile Tobacco Cessation Clinics: Reaching Underserved Populations Peter Selby
What is level of integration of Tobacco Control in Masters of Public Health
Curricula of India? - Sonu Goel
"Biochemical confirmation of self reported non-smoking status among diabetes
patients in South India: Verification using salivary cotinine"
K R Thankappan
Can change in perceptions and knowledge of harm of smoking on diabetes
affect quit rate of smoking among diabetes - G K Mini
The relation between price and daily consumption of cigarettes and bidis:
Findings from TCP India wave 1 survey - Pawar Pratibha

9.30 AM
11.15 AM

Tobacco control :
Initiatives and
Innovations

Nyo Nyo Kyaing,

Sharmila Pimple,
Deepak Mishra

Proffered
Paper 1
HBB Audi

Proffered
Paper 2
HBB Lecture
Room

Tobacco use :
Youth and Women

Mira Aghi,
Gauravi Mishra,
Mangesh Pednekar

Prevalence of tobacco consumption in school going adolescent boys in urban

slum - Dhananjay Kumar Singh
In-School Prevention of Tobacco Use through Life Skills Development The
Super Army Model Sheela Bhardwaj
"Knowledge and Practices of School-going Adolescents Use of Smokeless Forms
of Tobacco, Assam, India" - Arzoo Dutta
Tobacco control using traditional festivals - Gawade Sandeep
Facilitating public school students to quit tobacco and supari use - Zahra

11.15 AM
11.30 AM

11.30 AM
12.45 PM

TEA BREAK

Inaugural
Ceremony
Rustam
ChoksiHall

12.45 PM 01.00 PM
01.00 PM
02.00 PM
TIMING

Lecture Hall

Welcome Address A K Dcruz, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital

Introducing the theme of Congress Prakash Gupta, Director, Healis
Felicitation of WHO World No Tobacco Day award winners - Nata Menabde, WHO Representative, India
Felicitation of Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation tobacco control award winners Padmini Somani, Director, Salaam Bombay
Foundation
Release of Global SLT report Nata Menabde, WHO Representative, India
Address by Amal Pusp, Director, MoHFW
Introduction of the special guest
Address by Chief Guest - Nata Menabde, WHO Representative, India
Vote of Thanks Surendra Shastri, Tata Memorial Hospital

Interaction with Media

LUNCH

SESSION
FORMAT

TOPIC

CHAIRS

SUB-TOPICS
A Global Perspective on Smokeless Tobacco - Mark Parascandola (National
Cancer Institute, USA)
Smokeless Tobacco : Seeing from the Regional Lens of Southeast Asia
Dhirendra Sinha (WHO - SEARO)
Smokeless Tobacco : The Indian Context and Public Policy Strategies - Prakash
Gupta (Healis)
Panel An interactive dialogue moderated by Samira Asma (Centers for Disease
Control, USA)
Amal Pusp, MoHFW
Vineet Munish Gill , WHO
Nandita Murukutla , World Lung Foundation
Pankaj Chaturvedi, Tata Memorial Hospital
Vandana Shah, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Dhirendra Sinha, WHO SEARO
Prakash Gupta, Healis

02.00 PM 03.00 PM

Merchant
Creating a Tobacco-Free Environment for Students: Advocacy on Tobacco
Sales within 100 Yards of Mumbai Schools Lata Sawant
Study to assess impact of Anti Tobacco advertisements in cinema - Oswal Kunal
Tobacco Cessation in Women in Urban Slum Community of Mumbai, India
Sheetal Kulkarni

Opening
Plenary
Rustam
Choksi Hall

Smokeless Tobacco and

Public Health: A Global
Perspective

Samira Asma,
Mark Parascandola

Symposium 1
Rustam
Choksi Hall

Building evidence to
integrate tobacco
cessation services within
healthcare systems and
workplaces in India

Shubhangi Parkar,
Leni Chaudhuri

03.00 PM
04.00 PM

Symposium 2
Lecture Hall

E-cigarettes and Areca

nut : Different threats

Rati Godrej,
Surendra Shastri

Workshop 2
Board Room

Effective Use of Media for

Tobacco Control In India

Vaishakhi Mallik
Moderator

04.00 PM
04.30 PM

Establishing a Tobacco treatment service in a Tertiary Care Hospital Farooq

Buddha, Prince Aly Khan Hospital
Setting up tobacco treatment service at the community level within Urban
Health Posts A pilot at Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Deepak
Paropkari, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation
Integrating tobacco cessation within the Revised National TB Control
Programme - a pilot in Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation - Anupama Rane,
Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation
Integrating tobacco cessation activities within health initiatives at a workplace
setting - Prakash Pokharna, Ambuja Cements Ltd.
Health effects and policy : Areca nut Pankaj Chaturvedi, Tata Memorial
Hospital
Harmful effects of E-cigarettes Prakash Gupta, Healis
E-cigarettes marketing in India - Madison Rose, Salaam Bombay Foundation
Policy on E-cigarettes : Indian context L Swasticharan, MoHFW
Presentation and discussion: An overview of tobacco epidemic & tobacco
control measures including role of media & communications K Vishwanathan, University of Harvard
Presentation and discussion: Strategic planning for tobacco control mass
media public education campaigns - Nandita Murukutla, World Lung
Foundation
Presentation and discussion: Social Media campaigns for TC advocacy: Why
use which tools? Vaishakhi Mallik & Pallavi Puri, World Lung Foundation
TEA BREAK

Workshop 2
Board Room
04.30 PM
05.30 PM
Symposium 3
Rustam Choksi
Hall

Continues..
Effective Use of Media
for Tobacco Control In
India
Ten Years of COPTA:
Successes, Challenges
and Way forward

Vaishakhi Mallik
Moderator

Amal Pushp
Prakash Gupta

06.30 PM
Onwards

Exercise: Campaign message development - Vaishakhi Mallik

Presentation and discussion: Analytics/monitoring/evaluation - Nandita
Murukutla
Q&A Closing.
Ten years of implementation and enforcement of COTPA - L Swasticharan,
MoHFW, GOI
Achievement and gaps in implementation of policy provisions of COTPA Hemant Goswami, Director, Burning Brain Society
Tobacco control in India: What to expect in the next 10 years
Rana J Singh, The Union

NETWORKING EVENING
DAY 2, TUESDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2014

TIMING
8:00 AM
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SUB-TOPICS
REGISTRATIONS

Hemi Plenary
1
Lecture Hall
09.00 AM
10.00 AM

Hemi Plenary
2
Rustam Choksi
Hall

Judicial Innovations to
expand the impact of
COTPA

Prevention of youth
access to tobacco

Symposium 4
Lecture Hall

Learnings from success

stories in States of India

Symposium 5
Rustam Choksi
Hall

Learnings from success

stories in States of India

10.00 AM
11.00 AM

Smokeless Tobacco ban Case - Pranav Sachdeva

COTPA as part of Restaurant License - Ranjit Singh
Tobacco Board Matters - Jayna Kothari

Plain packaging, including planned research and advocacy campaigns in the

country - Radhika Srivastava, HRIDAY
Preventing tobacco use among children in municipal schools of Mumbai Padmini Somani, Salaam Bombay Foundation
The New Media: Youths Exposure to Tobacco Ads/Promotions K Vishwanathan, University of Harvard
Youth Perspective Surbhi Shastri

Rana J Singh,
Jaspreet Kaur,
A V Rinkoo

Karnataka Upendra Bhojani

North East Ruchira Neogi
Punjab Rakesh Kumar
Bihar N K Mishra
Himachal Pradesh Gopal Chauhan

Surendra Shastri,
Pranay Lal,
Ram Barot

Maharashtra Devika Chadha

Madhya Pradesh Brij Mohan Shrivastava
Kerala Suresh Sukumaran
Rajasthan Vikram Raghav
Jammu Kashmir Seema Gupta

Vandana Shah,
Justice Mukul Mudgal

Dhirendra Sinha,
K R Thankappan

11.00 AM
11.30 AM

TEA BREAK

11.30 AM
01.15 PM

Proffered
Papers 3
Rustam Choksi
Hall

COTPA and NTCP:

Implementation and
challenges

Bobby Ramakant,
Arzoo Datta
Sharmila Pimple

Smoke Free Munger initiative - A gateway to Tobacco Free Bihar Deepak

Mishra
Advocacy to increase Central Excise on Tobacco Products through High Level
Political, Policy & Media Advocacy Seema Gupta
Curbing Violations of Point of Sale Advertising in Mumbai - Narayan Lad
Section 5 of COTPA-2003: Complete ban on TAPS Alam Md Masood
Gutka Ban in India: Advocacy efforts leading to change with special focus on
Maharashtra Arpita Singh
Enforcement and Compliance of Tobacco Control Law in a Medical College
in Delhi, India Neha Gupta
MPOWER-success story in a non NTCP (National Tobacco Control Program)
state in India Gopal Chauhan
From Policy to Practice: Insights from Karnataka about Implementation of
Tobacco Control Law Pragati Hebbar
Rapid Situational Analysis of the Bidi Industry trade and manufacturing in
Andhra Pradesh, India Chandra Ramakrishnan
Tobacco use in rural areas of North India (with special reference to Ghaziabad
district) Rohini Ruhil
Deforestation due to Tobacco curing in India: Need for Institutional Intervention

 Arunkumar Kulkarni
"Smoking patterns, quit attempts and nicotine dependence of current daily
smokers among males in rural Kerala early results of a community
intervention trial" Jayakrishnan Radhakrishnan
Moving towards a tobacco-free workplace - Zahra Merchant
Conflicts of interest in tobacco control in India an exploratory study
Neethi Rao
Assessing compliance to Indian tobacco control legislation at Point of Sales in
Tehri district Uttarakhand Govind Kumar
Evaluation of surveillance system for tobacco-related cancers in Delhi
Rajesh Yadav
The Process of Developing a Fully Integrated Tobacco Curriculum in South
Indian Medical Colleges - B.Unnikrishnan

Proffered
Papers 4
Lecture Hall
Population based
survey and prevalence

Gauravi Mishra,
Surabhi Shastri
Ashima Sarin

01.15 PM
02.00 PM

02.00 PM
03.30 PM

LUNCH BREAK

Open forum
discussion
Rustam Choksi
Hall

Challenges in tobacco
control in India

Pankaj Chaturvedi
Moderator

Panelists:
P C Gupta, Healis-Sheksaria Institute for Public Health
Jagdish Kaur, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Jayant Kumar Banthia, Government of Maharashtra
Shekhar Bajaj, Bajaj Electricals Ltd.
Justice Mukul Mudgal
Padmini Somani, Salaam Bombay Foundation
Vishwanathan, University of Harvard
Kunal Saxena, Rusan Healthcare Ltd

03.30 PM
03.45 PM

TEA BREAK

03.45 PM
05.30 PM

Closing
Plenary
Rustam Choksi
Hall

Multi Sectoral Action on

Tobacco Control in
India

K C Samria
Vineet Munish Gill,
Purvish Parikh,

Conference Declaration - Mira Aghi and Pranay Lal

Ban on gutkha and paan masala : Maharashtra experience Mahesh Zagade,
Government of Maharashtra
Tobacco taxation initiative in Rajasthan Praveen Gupta, Government of
Rajasthan
Illicit trade in tobacco control and related interventions P K Das, Central
Board of Excise and Customs
Gutka ban compliance report Pradeep Krishnatray, John Hopkins University
Crop Alternatives: Government Perspective - Anuradha Vemuri, Ministry of
Agriculture
Mainstreaming Bidi Workers Through Alternative Livelihoods - Bhavna
Mukhopadhyay, Voluntary Health Association of India
Closing remarks Pankaj Chaturvedi, President, Scientific Committee 3rd
NCTOH