2014 Asia Pacific Quitline Network Workshop

• “Exploring Quitlines: Exploration of Quitlines in the Asia Pacific Region to Better Serve Smokers”
  Organized by Asia Pacific Quitline Network, Tobacco Control Office China CDC and World Health Organization (WHO)
  25th~26th October, 2014, Beijing, China
• Aim and objectives:
  Aim
  To promote advanced Quitline services among quitlines in the Asia Pacific Region to provide cessation support to smokers
  Objectives
  • To share the efforts of quitlines in explring better approach to improve and expand cessation service;
  • To help smoke-free cities in the Asia Pacific Region to improve their cessation service;
  • To develop networking and explore opportunities for research project to maximize Quiline in providing cessation support to Asian Pacific smokers
• Participants
  Quitline providers in 15 countries in Asian Pacific Quitline Network: Australia, Brunei, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand,
• Faculties
  The conference will involve countries and areas that have pioneered Quitlines. The experts from related institutes included:
  1. 1. Doris Wang (Director, Office of international Coorperation, China CDC, China)
  2. 2. Dongbo Fu (Technical Officer, WHO, Geneva)
  3. 3. Qi Shi (Chief, Division of Health Promotion, Dep. of Communications, NHFPCm China)
  4. 4. Jintana,Yunibhand (Chair, Asia Pacific Quitline Network)
  5. 5. Xiaofent Liang (Deputy Director General, China CDD, China)
  6. 6. Mina Kashiwabara (TFI, Who WPRO)
  7. 7. April Roeseler (CDPH, USA)
  8. 8. Erik Augustson (NCI_TC, USA)
  9. 9. Sho-Hong Zhu (UCSD, USA)
  10. 10. Min Kyung Lim (Nationwide Quitline, NCC, Republic of Korea)
  11. 11. Ken Wassum (Alere Wellbeing Inc., USA
  12. 12. Luke Atkin (Quit Victoria, Australia)
  13. 13. Paula Snowden (Quit Group, New Zealand)
  14. 14. Yuan Jiang (TCO, China CDC, China)
• Host and Sponsor
  Tobacco Control Office China, APQN, and WHO
• Venue
  Beijing Marriott Hotel City Hall: No.7 Jian Guo Men South Avenue, Dong Cheng District, Beijing, China. 100005, (86)10-5811-8888, www. mariottbeijingcitywall.com
• Offical Language: English