TackSHS is a research project funded by the European Union’s H2020 Program, that aims to improve our understanding of second-hand tobacco smoke and e-cigarette emissions as well as to find ways of tackling the health burden caused by exposure to these aerosols. The 2nd TackSHS Consortium Meeting held in Milan on 28-29 November 2016 gathered […]
Horizon Magazine, the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, has published an article about potential risks of passive exposure to aerosols produced by electronic cigarettes. For this article Dr. Esteve Fernández, Principal Investigator of the TackSHS project that is focused on secondhand exposure to tobacco and electronic cigarettes in Europe, and Dr. Constantine Vardavas, Principal Investigator […]
Alrededor de 250 clínicos (principalmente médicos y enfermeras) se han inscrito al Curso Online en Intervención Breve para Dejar de Fumar adaptado a la realidad de tres hospitales de América Latina: 1- El Instituto de Oncología del Oriente Boliviano (en Bolivia) 2- el Hospital del Cáncer Dr. Bernardo del Valle (en Guatemala) y 3- el […]
The website of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) publishes an interview with Dr. Esteve Fernández, principal investigator of the TackSHS Project. The GACD is an Alliance which coordinates and gives support to research for the prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases (chronic) at a global scale. Among others, the GACD funded research program on chronic respiratory diseases […]
Vídeo de l’Aula ICO que es va celebrar el passat dilluns 13 de juny en el que es va parlar del paper de l’ICO als programes de salut de l’OMS a càrrec de l’Esteve Fernández (Control del Tabac) i d’en Xavier Gómez-Batiste (Qualy). L’acte es va iniciar amb un emotiu record del Xavi Castellsagué, a càrrec d’en F. […]
Thirdhand smoke: a new pathway of passive smoking exposure By Dr. Noelia Ramírez Metabolomics Platform, Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain June 14, 2015 (12:00 h. – 13:00 h.) + info & free registration
En aquest article, fruit de l’estudi “Humo Ambiental del Tabaco en Lugares Abieetos y Semiabertos” (estudi HATLAS)” i publicat a la revista Environmental Research, s’han estudiat 47 bars i restaurants i 51 terraces de la ciutat de Barcelona, per investigar, en primer lloc, si el fum dels fumadors a les portes dels locals es difon cap […]
We have had a good WNTD, extended in Spain to the Smoke-free Week. At the Tobacco Control Unit we have worked once again in different professional and citizen areas to rise the risks of smoking and how to improve tobacco control. In this post in our blog “Tobacco Related” we further explain it (in Catalan). […]
On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, this year dedicated to the plain packaging of tobacco products, we have prepared a video explaining this new measure advocated by WHO to strengthen tobacco control. Plain packaging, claimed in Spain by scientific societies and consumer associations through the National Committee for Smoking Prevention has already been adopted and […]
The Ohio State University Center of Excellence in Regulatory Tobacco Science (OSU-CERTS) invites applications from individuals interested in obtaining postdoctoral research experience in the areas of regulatory policy, behavioral health (psychology, sociology, communications, or economics), molecular epidemiology, biostatistics, and other population science. PDF announcement OSU-CERTS Postdoctoral training program
