21 AUGUST, PUBLIC HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS: HIV PREVENTION/ ARCHIVE, GLOBAL TOBACCO CONTROL

Saturday, 11th of August 2012

Please plan to attend the August session of CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds, “High Impact HIV Prevention.” This session will be available via live webcast from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, August 21, at 1 p.m. (EDT) at www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds.

From: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention <cdc@service.govdelivery.com>
Date: 07/26/2012
Subject: Save the Date: Public Health Grand Rounds on Tuesday, August 21 (1 p.m. EDT)

Presented By:

Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH

Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“Science of Optimizing HIV Prevention”

Irene Hall, PhD, FACE

Chief, HIV Incidence and Case Surveillance Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“New Directions in Monitoring the Burden of HIV”

Stephanie Sansom, MPP, MPH

Commander, U.S. Public Health Service

Lead, Prevention Economics Team

Quantitative Sciences and Data Management Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC

“Modeling to Identify Optimal Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources in a City Health Department”

Grand Colfax, MD, MPH

Director, Office of National AIDS Policy

The White House

“Ongoing Implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy to Improve HIV Prevention and Care”

E-mail your questions about this topic before or during the session.

From: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention <cdc@service.govdelivery.com>
Date: 07/24/2012
Subject: CDC's Grand Rounds Presents “Global Tobacco Control: A Prevention Best Buy” Today, July 24 at 1 p.m. (EDT)

Join us for the July session of CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds, “Global Tobacco Control: A Prevention Best Buy” This session will be available via live webcast from CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, July 24 at 1 p.m. (EDT) at www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds. The webcast link is only active during the date and time of the session, but all sessions are archived for future viewing.

This session of Grand Rounds will explore the control of tobacco use—the leading preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide. Currently, approximately 6 million people die each year due to tobacco-related illnesses, a figure expected to increase to more than 8 million a year by 2030. If current global trends continue, tobacco use will cause up to 1 billion deaths in the 21st century.

CDC is the lead US federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control, and CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health develops, conducts, and supports strategic efforts to protect the public’s health from the harmful effects of tobacco use. An efficient and systematic surveillance mechanism to monitor the epidemic is one of the essential components of a comprehensive tobacco control program.

Global tobacco control has been called a “best buy” in public health. Beyond monitoring of tobacco use and exposure, this session will discuss effective prevention strategies at the personal, population, and policy levels.

Future Grand Rounds topics include high impact HIV prevention and explaining the unexplained in clinical infectious diseases. Email your questions about this topic before or during the session.

Presented By: Joanna Cohen, PhD, MHSc

Director, Institute for Global Tobacco Control

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

“The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Public Health Response to It”

Samira Asma, DDS, MPH

Branch Chief, Global Tobacco Control Branch

Office on Smoking and Health, CDC

“Global Surveillance of Tobacco Use as a Tool for Tobacco Control”

Michael Eriksen, ScD

Professor and Director, Institute of Public Health

Georgia State University

“International Advances in Tobacco Control”