Supply vs. demand? The political economy of trade, tobacco farming and tobacco control in Sub-Saharan Africa

Public Seminar
Supply vs. demand? The political economy of trade, tobacco farming and tobacco control in Sub-Saharan Africa

Speaker: Ronald Labonté
Date: 30 March 2017
Time: 5:00 – 6.00pm
Venue: Coombs Extension Building, Seminar Room 1.04, 8 Fellows Road, ANU

Professor Ronald Labonté is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University.

The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a binding international treaty with recommended actions member states should take to reduce tobacco consumption. Challenges to implement the FCTC have been most striking in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with little prior history of tobacco control policies. This seminar will present key findings from a multi-year study of trade, tobacco farming and tobacco control in three Sub-Saharan African countries: Kenya, Zambia and Malawi.

For more details see:

http://regnet.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/6710/supply-vs-demand-political-economy-trade-tobacco-farming-and-tobacco-control

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