Yesterday, Monday 8th March, International Women’s Day, our colleague, Ariadna Feliu, read her doctoral thesis in the Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Campus Bellvitge. The jury formed by the Professor of Public Health Ildefonso Hernández (Universidad de Alicante), the Dr María José Duaso (King’s College London) and the […]
Over a thousand students from four European countries will test the first online learning tool aimed at combating smoking, a pandemic that, despite being non-transmissible, causes 8 million deaths worldwide every year and 700,000 in the European Union. The development and testing of this tool are two of the central objectives of the INSTrUCT Project, […]
Are you a Health Science Degree Lecturer/Instructor in one of our Universities? Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Lleida, Universidad de Navarra, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, King’s College London, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel. Join us! Next 15th – 16th December, the INSTrUCT consortium will hold an online training session about […]
Second webinar of the Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, WHO Collaborating Centre that took place on June 4, 2020. CONCLUSIONS The first speaker, Armando Peruga, MD, epidemiologist, researcher at the Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge and Professor at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile, spoke to us about “the tobacco industry’s […]
Researchers from Tobacco Control Unit Team joined other tobacco control and public health scientists and advocates from across Europe and beyond in the 8th European Conference on Tobacco or Health (ECToH) which was held in Berlin, from 19 to 22 February 2020. Our team contributed one oral communication by Ariadna Feliu “Factors associated with receipt […]
The 2nd JATC Interim Meeting took place on February 4-5th, 2020 in Brussels, joined by the members of the Ingredients Subgroup of the Expert Group in Tobacco Control. More than 70 European partners participating in the EU funded project, Joint Action on Tobacco Control, met for the third time after the project’s kick-off, in October […]
We are glad to announce the next Tobacco Control Seminars, organized by the Tobacco Control Unit/ WHO Collaborating Center for Tobacco Control. These Seminars are aimed at introducing challenging topics and on-going research on tobacco control by national and international experts in a friendly environment. They are open to professionals and students in the wide field […]
Del 20 al 22 de novembre del 2019 es va celebrar el “XXIII Encuentro Internacional de Investigación en Cuidados” a la ciutat de Barcelona organitzat per Investen. Un total de 500 assistents van presentar fins a 450 treballs científics vinculats a la recerca en infermeria.
On October 23rd, the General Assembly of the Global Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services (GNTH) was held, which included 25 representatives from 19 members of this Network. As a representative of the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals, Laura Antón, psychologist at the Tobacco Control Unit (ICO) and technical coordinator of the Catalan Network of […]
One of the Tobacco Control Unit members, Bela, has started her 3-months research stay in The Union South-East Asia (USEA) Region office in New Delhi, India since the beginning of this month. Under the mentorship of Dr. Rana J Singh, her stay aims to understand the current status of e-cigarette regulation and context in South-East […]
On the 11th and 12th of November 2019, 20 academics and researchers from 7 EU Universities together with members of the Tobacco Control Unit at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (coordinator) held the kick-off meeting of the INSTrUCT project funded by ERASMUS + in Barcelona. INSTrUCT is an educational and research project aimed at developing […]
One of our Tobacco Control Unit team, Beladenta Amalia, participated in The 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Hyderabad, India which was held from 30th Oct until 2nd Nov 2019. The Conference offered a cutting-edge scientific showcase and community programme in the field of of tuberculosis, tobacco control, and other lung-related issues to […]
