Moving forward in the Americas: tobacco control fosters sustainable development

• Adriana Blanco Marquizo,
• Eduardo Bianco,
• Guillermo Paraje,
• Hebe N. Gouda,
• Johanna Birckmayer,
• Kevin Welding,
• Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu,
• Nicole D. Foster,
• Reina Roa,
• Rosa Carolina Sandoval,
• Stella Aguinaga Bialous

Affiliations

Adriana Blanco Marquizo

Head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Geneva, Switzerland

Eduardo Bianco

Director of International Policy Education in Addictions, Annenberg Physician Training Program at the Ulrich and Ruth Frank Foundation for International Health, Montevideo, Uruguay

Guillermo Paraje

Director de Investigación y Profesor Titular, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Millennium Nucleus for the Evaluation and Analysis of Drug Policies (nDP), Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Hebe N. Gouda

Project Officer for the Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Johanna Birckmayer

Public Health Advisor, Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York, New York, United States of America

Kevin Welding

Associate Director, Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu

Jefa del Departamento de Prevención y Control del Tabaquismo, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Morelos, México

Nicole D. Foster

Law Lecturer & Head, Law & Health Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Reina Roa

Coordinadora de la Comisión Nacional de Control de Tabaco, Punto Focal Nacional ante la Secretaria del Convenio Marco de la OMS para el Control de Tabaco y Representante de la Región de las Américas en la Mesa de la Reunión de las Partes del Protocolo para la Eliminación del Comercio ilícito de Productos de Tabaco, Ministerio de Salud de Panamá, Panamá, Panamá

Rosa Carolina Sandoval

Regional Advisor, Tobacco Control and Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America.

Stella Aguinaga Bialous

Professor, Social Behavioral and Sciences Department, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America