2015 Asia Pacific Quitline Network Workshop

• ” SHARE FOR BETTER“
  Organized by Tobacco Control Office China CDC, National Cancer Center (NCC) Korea, Quit Victoria, and National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  
• 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 monitoring and evaluating experience among quitlines in this region;
  • To improve reporting and researching capacity for the quitlines;
  • To help quitline develop their own monitoring plan
• Participants
  35 participants from Australia, Brunei, People’s Republic of China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and USA
• Faculties
  The conference will involve countries and areas that have pioneered Quitlines. The experts from related institutes included :
  1. 1. Qi Shi (Chief, Division of Health Promotion, Dep. of Communications, NHFPCm China)
  2. 2. Jintana,Yunibhand (Chair, Asia Pacific Quitline Network; Director, Thailand National Quitline)
  3. 3. Dongbo Fu (Technical Officer, WHO, Geneva)
  4. 4. Ken Wassum (Alere Wellbeing Inc., USA
  5. 5. Pei-Ting Hsu (Counselor, Taiwan Smokers’ Helpline)
  6. 6. Min Kyung Lim (Nationwide Quitline, NCC, Republic of Korea)
  7. 7. Luke Atkin (Quit Victoria, Australia)
  8. 8. Noorizan binti Haji Idris (Ministry of Health, Brunei Darussalam)
  9. 9. Yumiko Mochizuki (National Cancer Center, Japan)
  10. 10. Gupta Rakesh (Rajasthan Cancer Foundation & Volunteer, Pehal, the State medical Information Helpline, Jaipur, India)
  11. 11. Ying Cui (National Management Center for 12320 Public Health Hotline, China)
  12. 12. Dan Xiao (Quitline China-Japan Friendship Hospital, China)
  13. 13. Chih-Cheng Hsu (National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan)
  14. 14. Shu-Hong Zhu (Professor, University of California at San Diego, US)
  15. 15. Tim McAfee (Senior Medical Officer, Office on Smoking and Health, US CDC)
  16. 16. Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin (University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
  17. 17. Nay Soe Maung (University of Public Health Yangon, Myanmar)
  18. 18. Florante E Trinidad (WHO Office of the Representative in the Philippines)
• Host and Sponsor
  Tobacco Control Office China CDC, WHO, NCC, Quit Victoria, and NCI
• Venue
  Jianguo Hotel: No.439 Caoxi North Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200030, China, (86)21-6439 9299, www.jianguo.com
• Offical Language: English