
SPEAKERS
Cary Adams
Union for International Cancer Control
Peyman Altan
WHO FCTC Europe
Pilar Aparicio
Ministry of Health, Spain
Daniëlle Arnolds
Health Funds for a Smokefree Netherlands
Montse Ballbè
Catalan Institute of Oncology
Emmanuelle Béguinot
Comité National Contre le Tabagisme
James Robert Branston
University of Bath
Marion Catellin
Alliance Contre le Tabac
Magdalena Cedzynska
Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Jasmina Cekric
PROI
Luke Clancy
Tobacco Free Research Institute Ireland
Alison Cox
NCD Alliance
Alison Cox is Policy and Advocacy Director at the NCD Alliance where she is responsible for policy strategy development and delivery across the organisation’s strategic impact goals of Prevention, Care and Financing. Alison has previously led policy and advocacy programmes for other global public health alliances: the Framework Convention Alliance and the Global Climate and Health Alliance. Alison also spent eight years as Cancer Research UK’s Prevention Director where she was responsible for their Cancer Policy Research Centre, as well as UK and International prevention policy research grant-funding programmes.
Elif Dagli
Health Institute Society
Prof Elif Dağlı is a physician and advocate focusing on childhood respiratory diseases. As an academician with thirty years of experience, she wishes to focus her research and teaching efforts on increasing the awareness and the importance of prevention. Elif Dağlı’s involvement in tobacco control and leadership has been crucial in Turkey. She was involved in drafting the legislation that instituted a ban on tobacco advertising and the establishment of smoke-free environments.
Lorena Dini
Health Policy and Systems Research and Innovation (HPSRI)
Lorena Dini is a medical doctor with a Master of Science in International Health, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Public Health, and holds a Certificate in Health Care Management. As a senior she is researcher dedicated to improving the health of the individuals and communities by designing and implementing innovative research projects with an action-based realist-approach. Her projects merge mixed methods and participatory approaches covering the primary care, public health, global health and one health from the patient, provider, organizational and systemic perspective.
Roland Driece
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports in the Netherlands
Ariadna Feliu
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO)
Manuel Franco
Johns Hopkins
Allen Gallagher
University of Bath
Silvano Gallus
Mario Negri Institute
José Miguel Gaona
Drug and Tobacco Rehabilitation Center
Christian Gil-Borrelli
ISOSCELES
Laura Graen
German Cancer Research Center
Dolores Isla
Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa
Luk Joossens
Association of European Cancer Leagues
Paul Kavanagh
HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme
Pawel Koczkodaj
Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Anton Kunst
Amsterdam University Medical Centre
Daniel La Parra
Spanish State Council of Roma People
María-José López
Public Health Agency of Barcelona
Ángel López Nicolás
Grupo I+D
Alessandra Lugo
Istituto Mario Negri
Cristina Macia
Ramón y Cajal Hospital
Ruth Malone
University of California
Beatriz Martín
Fundación Fad Juventud
Cristina Martínez
Catalan Institute of Oncology
Karina Mocanu
European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention
Karina Mocanu is currently the Communication Manager of the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention. She holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Communications and Marketing at Université Libre de Bruxelles. In addition to her background in Political Science from the same university, Karina has worked in different communication missions within diplomacy, tobacco control, toxicology, cancer-related NGOs and EU projects. Her work, recently oriented towards research, focuses as well on youth advocacy in the field of health. She is the leader of the ENSP Youth Group and tries to translate the mission and vision of ENSP.