Written by professor Pekka Puska (MD, PhD, MPolSc), chair of the WHO FCTC impact assessment Expert Group. Monitoring and research are keys to effective policy Global […]

Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) made important advances this week to fight tobacco, the world’s leading single preventable cause of death.
The tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO FCTC took place in Panama City, Panama, the first in-person session of the COP in six years.

Written by Dr. Tibor Szilagyi and Ms. Leticia Martinez Lopez (Secretariat of the WHO FCTC) How can national data support monitoring of the SDGs? The Secretariat […]

Written by Elba Esteves, MD, Laura Llambí, PhD, Diego Rodríguez, MSc, Amanda Sica, Psy D, and Beatriz Goja, MD, from the WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub on […]

Elba Esteves, MD, Laura Llambí, PhD, Diego Rodríguez, MSc, Amanda Sica, Psy D, and Beatriz Goja, MD, Centro de Cooperación Internacional para el Control de Tabaco […]

In a significant legal victory for public health, Mexico's Fourth Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit has upheld the dismissal of an amparo challenge to the Decree Amending, Adding, and Repealing Several Provisions of the Regulation of the General Law for Tobacco Control.