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Empowering pharmacists to support tobacco cessation in Western Pacific Region
In the Western Pacific Region, 22.5 % of people aged 15 years and over were current tobacco users. Given the global and regional prevalence and burden of tobacco use, particularly as a risk factor for noncommunicable diseases, it is important that the role of pharmacists in this area is expanded and consolidated. FIP and the Western Pacific Pharmaceutical Forum invite you to join this event to learn more about the burden of tobacco use in the Western Pacific region and the role that pharmacists can play in tobacco cessation. The event will include insights from the WHO Regional Office, country examples of pharmacist services and the presentation of FIP resources to advance tobacco cessation through pharmacists.
Moderator:
- John Jackson, President, FIP Western Pacific Pharmaceutical Forum, Australia
Panellists:
- Mina Kashiwabara, Technical Lead, Tobacco Free Initiative World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Philippines
- Peter Guthrey, Senior pharmacist – strategic policy , Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Australia
- Andree Pei-wen Yu, Certified Tobacco Cessation Pharmacist, ART Pharmacy, China Taiwan
- Atsushi Toyomi, Executive Director, Japan Pharmaceutical Association, Japan
- Mohamad Haniki Nik Mohamed, Lecturer and tobacco cessation researcher and expert, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
- Inês Nunes da Cunha, FIP Practice Development and Transformation Projects Manager FIP, The Netherlands