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Jul 27, 2010 Sunday in Tanzania Two women visiting family members in the maternity ward, coming to cook and provide emotional support. On Sunday at 7 AM, our World Lung Foundation team of Peter Baldini, Jack Salvo, Carl Mercer, Dismass Masumbukoo, our driver Filbert Kalilameso, and I climbed into a jeep provided by our... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 24, 2010 Smoke-free Alexandria, “effective immediately” Minister of Health Dr. El-Gabaly and General Adel Labib sign the declaration of Smoke-free Alexandria, while Dr. Sahar Labib, Director of the Tobacco Control Department, looks on. “This initiative needs supports from individuals and society, and is the first core and form of... World Lung Foundation more...
Jun 16, 2010 WLF Workshop in Bogotá, Colombia Attendees to the Bogotá, Colombia workshop, give their full attention to WLF trainer Jorge Alday. Jorge Alday and I, we leave our home cities, New York and Mexico, to go to Bogotá, Colombia. It would be our first time in Colombia, and that gave us a feeling of curiosity and... World Lung Foundation more...
May 26, 2010 WLF Commends Australian Gov't on Unprecedented Tobacco Control Policies (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation congratulates the Australian government on its announcement of a comprehensive package to combat smoking—including a 25% increase in the excise tax on tobacco products and the removal of promotional text, images and colors on all cigarette packs.... World Lung Foundation more...
May 20, 2010 Working Together for Tobacco Control in Vietnam WLF has worked throughout the past year and a half with local partners in Vietnam to develop a national mass media campaign. The goals were to increase the public’s awareness about the harms of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke, and to generate support for national tobacco control... World Lung Foundation more...
May 19, 2010 WLF Brings Communications Course to Singapore It took 24 hours to get from New York, where I live, to Singapore. Not the easiest trip, to say the least. It was a long time to remain in the same position, but the people in the plane were very nice and polite, and I had the feeling I was going to a fine place. At the beginning of... World Lung Foundation more...
May 5, 2010 New Survey Shows 77% of Vietnamese Oppose Secondhand Smoke in Public Places after Seeing Ad Download Vietnamese Press Release (New York, NY and Hanoi, Vietnam) - – Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO) and World Lung Foundation (WLF) announced today the results of a national mass media campaign to build support for the ban on smoking in... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 22, 2010 Tanzania - Expanding Critical Health Services for Women and Children The core aspect of the WLF program in Tanzania is to decrease maternal and infant mortality through targeted enhancements of emergency obstetric care in rural health centers. Specifically, the WLF program is funding the renovation and construction of key infrastructure; building the... World Lung Foundation more...
Apr 7, 2010 Run, WLF, Run! After a family dinner one night late last year, my husband asked if anyone wanted to run with him in the NYC Half Marathon, as part of the World Lung Foundation team. World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 29, 2010 Craig David, Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis Craig David with WLF board member Dr. Marcos Espinal at Stop TB event. On World TB day, I attended a celebration with Craig David, the British R&B singer. He is serving as a Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis. The event was held at a gallery in the West Village of... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 19, 2010 The Disturbing Paradox of Tuberculosis By Neil W. Schluger, M.D. Chief Scientific Officer, World Lung Foundation, and Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Recently, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in research projects to develop new drugs, diagnostics... World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 12, 2010 Moscow Sponge Winter Campaign When I arrived in bright, cold, snowy, mid-February Moscow for a series of meetings with Russian partners, I was happy and shocked to see that the LED poster images from the “Sponge” tobacco control mass media campaign were still up in the metro. World Lung Foundation more...
Mar 9, 2010 Spring Festival Gift-Giving in China 2010 marks the second year that WLF will be supporting a campaign in China to discourage against the practice of giving cigarettes as gifts. With the Chinese New Year holiday fast approaching, gift giving is at its peak. Working with WHO, China CDC, and other local partners, the campaign... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 8, 2010 Enhancing Maternal Health in Tanzania For the last year WLF has been working with the Ifakara Health Research and Development Center to improve access to maternal and neonatal health care in Tanzania. By enhancing the capacity of healthcare providers with life saving skills and equipment, the program aims to decrease maternal... World Lung Foundation more...
Feb 4, 2010 World Cancer Day (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation (WLF) released the following statement on World Cancer Day, 2010: “Lung cancer is the most preventable form of cancer,” said Dr. Neil Schluger, Chief Scientific Officer, World Lung Foundation. “According to the World Health... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 15, 2010 Haiti Earthquake Relief WLF CEO Peter Baldini shares some distaster relief organizations for donations to Hairi in the wake of the devestating earthquake. World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 13, 2010 Media Communications Workshop in Singapore Twas the week before Christmas when 26 public health practitioners from 15 countries gathered in Singapore for an introduction to mass media and communications. The five-day workshop was designed and taught by WLF and the Union as part of The Union’s International Management... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 11, 2010 The Two Worlds of Dr. E. Jane Carter, WLF Board Member In December 2009 at the World Lung Conference in Mexico, Dr. Carter spoke to WLF about her commitment to... World Lung Foundation more...
Jan 8, 2010 WLF Impact: WLF at the Union’s World Lung Conference Untitled Document .headerTop {background-color:#ececec;border-top:0px solid #000000;border-bottom:1px solid #FFFFFF;text-align:center; } .adminText { font-size:10px;color:#757575;line-height:200%;font-family:verdana;text-decoration:none; } .headerBar { background-color:#FFFFFF;... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 18, 2009 Vietnam Ministry of Health and World Lung Foundation Launch Mass Media Campaign to Support Smoke-Free Vietnam Download Vietnamese Press Release (New York, NY and Hanoi, Vietnam) - Vietnam’s Ministry of Health launched a new mass media campaign to support Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s Decision 1315, dated 21st August 2009, which mandates smoke-free public places across Vietnam. The... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 16, 2009 Jane Carter Interview At the 2009 World Lung Conference in Mexico, Dr. Carter spoke to WLF about her commitment to international lung... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 15, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Poverty and Lung Health: 40th World Lung Conference in Cancún, Mexico The WLF conference booth WLF Communications Officer Mohamed El-Ghamrawy presents a cigarette pack warnings campaign in Egypt. Board member Marc Snazjderman (left) and Special Projects Manager Rebecca Perl (center) meet the recipients of WLF’s New York City Half-Marathon... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 14, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Thanksgiving in Hanoi Editing ads in the production studio Tom (center) with in-country partners, at WHO’s Vietnam headquarters Vietnamese pho noodles for Thanksgiving Hanoi’s Temple of Literature is smoke-free WLF has been working all year with partners in Vietnam to develop a... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 9, 2009 Most Governments Fail to Protect Their Citizens from Tobacco Harms (New York, NY) - World Lung Foundation (WLF) released the following statement on the release of the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic , 2009: “The WHO report demonstrates clearly that most governments have failed to address tobacco as a public health crisis,” said Peter... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 1, 2009 Integrating HIV Treatment with Prevention and Treatment for Lung Diseases Could Save Millions of Lives (New York, NY) - On World AIDS Day, World Lung Foundation (WLF) urged governments and the global health community to take steps toward more systematic integration of the treatment and care for lung disease among patients with HIV/AIDS: Neil Schluger, Chief Scientific Officer at WLF said,... World Lung Foundation more...
Dec 1, 2009 WLF Accomplishments Untitled Document .iconspan{ float: right; margin: 3px; cursor:hand; cursor:pointer; font-weight: bold; } .eg-bar{ background-color: #d8edf6; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid white; padding: 3px; } div.eg-bar{ width: 600px; } .icongroup1{ width:... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 16, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Moscow Duma Launches “Sponge” Campaign TIrina Morozova, who works for World Lung Foundation as a Communications Officer, was on hand when the Moscow Duma launched the “Sponge” mass media campaign, which uses an ad that graphically warns about the dangers of smoking . The press launch of the campaign took place in... World Lung Foundation more...
Nov 9, 2009 New Graphic Ad Combats Smokeless Tobacco in India (Delhi, India) - The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare's (MOHFW) Tobacco Control Programme today announced the launch of a nationwide television and radio campaign called "Surgeon." The campaign features cancer patients at Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital's neck... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 27, 2009 Field Reports Blog: 3rd Cross-Strait Conference The WLF China team attended the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (HKCOSH)-hosted 3rd Cross-Strait Conference on Tobacco Control in Hong Kong last week. The theme of this year’s two-day meeting was "Construct Smoke-free Society & Promote MPOWER." More than 200 tobacco... World Lung Foundation more...
Oct 12, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Turkey Smoke-free Site Visit "In Turkey, Sylviane Ratte of the Union and I went to Izmir, Turkey’s 3rd largest city of about 3.5 million, to visit with the local health directorate and find out about how Smoke-free was being implemented locally, and how tobacco control rated on the municipality’s list of... World Lung Foundation more...
Aug 2, 2009 Results for Tanzania Maternal Health Infrastructure Program WLF clinic in Tanzania World Lung Foundation more
Aug 2, 2009 Field Reports Blog: Judith Mackay at WPRO meeting Judith Mackay at WPRO meeting World Lung Foundation more
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