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Last Tuesday, December 5th, our colleague Kenza Laroussy read her doctoral thesis in the Sala de Grados of the Faculty of Nursing of the Bellvitge Campus. The tribunal members, Professor Maria Teresa Lluch Canut (University of Barcelona), Dr. Mónica Pérez Rios (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Dr. Albert Espelt Hernández (Autonomous University of Barcelona), […]

The Tobacco Control Unit (TCU) of ICO actively engaged in the 27th International Nursing Research Conference, alongside the X Iberoamerican Congress of Qualitative Research in Health, hosted by the Research Unit in Care and Health Services (Investén-isciii) from November 15 to 17 in Valladolid. During the event, Researcher Nathália Silva Fontana Rosa, a collaborator of […]

The Head of the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, Esteve Fernández, has been appointed by the Minister of Health as the new president of the Advisory Council on Smoking in Catalonia. The Advisory Council on Smoking in Catalonia aims to advise and promote different actions to prevent and control smoking in […]

The PIECES Consortium, comprising a Horizon Europe-funded collaborative team of cancer prevention experts and implementation scientists, recently gathered in Amsterdam on November 2nd and 3rd for a pivotal meeting aimed at piloting and designing an advanced primary cancer prevention implementation toolkit (PCP-IT) that is being designed to facilitate the implementation of cancer prevention interventions. The […]

In 2022, the Tobacco Control Unit became an advocacy partner of the Smoke Free Partnership (SFP) Coalition, a specialised network comprising of independent EU and national organisations with technical expertise in tobacco control policy. On November 7th, the Tobacco Control Unit participated in the Workshop on Tobacco Taxation organised by the SFP. Increasing tobacco taxes […]

Three Ph.D. candidates from UTC, namely Kenza Laroussy, Judith Saura, and Ayaka Teshima, participated in the Ph.D. Day organized by IDIBELL on November 10th. Kenza delivered an oral presentation, while Judith and Ayaka presented posters during the conference. All these research projects were developed with the support of the UTC team and some associated expert […]

The Tobacco Control Unit (TCU) of ICO participated in the eighth European Conference on Tobacco Control (ECTC) organized by the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP). The conference took place on October 10-12th in Florence, Italy. Abstracts of two projects on which colleagues from the TCU are working on were presented: Joint Action […]

The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and ALTHAIA, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa, have both renewed this accreditation, which was granted in 2018. The presentation of this award took place on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, during a hybrid event at the University of Vienna, as part of the Gold Forum Conference. This event served as a […]

The Tobacco Control Unit actively participated in the 2023 SRNT-Europe Conference (The Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco – Europe), held in London from September 11 to 13. These three days were filled with symposiums, talks, posters, and debates focused on research on nicotine and tobacco. At this congress, results were presented on the […]

Ayaka Teshima, an early career researcher at the Tobacco Control Unit and University of Barcelona PhD student, has been selected as a Youth Ambassador for the European Cancer Leagues (ECL) Youth Ambassador Programme. She recently participated in a Summer school organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe. The ECL Youth Ambassadors for the European […]