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On 26 June, Dublin hosted the Global Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services (GNTH) General Assembly and Gold Forum conference in a hybrid format. During the morning meeting, the network’s member hospitals presented their activities in 2024 and presented their strategic lines for 2025. Psychologist Laura Antón , representing the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals […]

The Joint Action Prevent Non-Communicable Diseases (JA PreventNCD) held its second annual European consortium meeting in Katowice, Poland , on 16 and 17 June. The event brought together over 100 participants, including several professionals from the Tobacco Control Unit (UCT) , national health authorities from participating countries, youth representatives and public health experts from across

On Monday 9th December, the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) hosted the 7th edition of the ICO-WHO Symposium on Tobacco Control. This conference, organised by the Tobacco Control Unit of ICO-IDIBELL in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), aims to provide a space to discuss and reflect on the main advances, current challenges and

On 2 December, the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals held its 22nd annual meeting at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO). It was an opportunity for most of the representatives of the network’s member hospitals to meet again and exchange experiences. Dr Maica Galán, Director of Care at the ICO, welcomed the participants and Dr

Seven out of ten homes in Europe are smoke-free, according to a major survey published today in ERJ Open Research. The study, lead by the IDIBELL and ICO Tobacco Control Unit in collaboration with the Milan Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research IRCCS, shows how some countries have come further than others in protecting children and adults from

Two members of the Tobacco Control Unit (TCU) attended the XX INEBRIA (International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs) Congress in Barcelona on 21-22 November. During the event, two of the unit’s research projects were presented. Cristina Martínez, director of the UCT, presented the ISCI-SEC project, which aims to improve smoking cessation

Olena Tigova, a predoctoral researcher from the UCT, recently presented updates on the adapted Smoke-Free Homes project in Catalonia to the original project team at Emory University. The Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC), part of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University (Atlanta, US), originally developed and tested this evidence-based intervention in various

Two pre-doctoral students from the Tobacco Control Unit, Judith Saura and Jassia Zafar, attended the PhD Day organised by the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) on 8 November. This day was a very enriching opportunity to explore the use of new Artificial Intelligence tools in research, to meet innovative projects of other pre-doctoral students from

On 6 November, the Global Network for Tobacco-Free Healthcare Services (GNTH) 2024 Conference took place in Hiroshima, Japan, as a pre-conference event of the Health Promoting Hospitals Network (HPH Network) International Congress. More than 80 attendees joined in person and online to hear inspiring presentations on key topics such as smoking cessation, prevention strategies and

On 1 November, Dr Cristina Martínez represented the UCT at the I Tobacco Forum in São Paulo, Brazil. Organised by the Paulista Society of Pneumology and Tisiology, the event brought together leaders in respiratory health, public health and tobacco control to discuss policies and innovations to reduce tobacco consumption and exposure to second-hand smoke. Smoke-free