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Promising Practices: Achieving Health and Social Equity in Tobacco Control

*Click here to view AGENDA and POSTER PRESENTERS as of 2/17/10*

Goals and objectives of the conference:

Provide a platform to exchange ideas and solutions to improve the health and well-being of the African American community and those living in poverty;

Explore diverse and innovative ways of translating research into action;

Inspire new and authentic integration of chronic disease and tobacco control programming within the African American and low SES communities;

Identify the best strategies and practices to influence public policies and programs;

Bring together public administrators, community-based organizations, researchers and healthcare professionals with a view to networking and learning; and

To enhance the visibility of local and state tobacco prevention and control programming that is working in an effort to encourage replication and best-practices.

History of the conference:

Health Education Council's (HEC) first national conference, Promising Practices from the Field: Tobacco Control Strategies for Priority Populations was held April 23-24, 2008 in Detroit Michigan. This conference highlighted two HEC programs - the National African American Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN) and the National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty (NNTPP), as well as the work of other agencies and organizations seeking to eliminate tobacco-related disparities among priority populations.

(To read about our 2008 conference and access the presentations click, here.)