WLF Impact: WLF at the Union's World Lung Conference

For more information, please contact Jennifer Birkett at jbirkett@worldlungfoundation.org WLF attended the 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health, organized by our partner, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, from December 3-7 in Cancún, Mexico. At the conference, WLF interviewed WLF Board Member Jane Carter about her work in Lung health, sponsored a symposium on mass media, and presented several poster. Details below. WLF is tweeting on lung health issues.  Follow us at twitter.com/WorldLungFdn Follow us on Twitter!

Video: WLF Board Member Dr. Jane Carter talks about lung health, from Rhode Island to Kenya Dr. Carter, WLF Board Member and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brown University, spoke to us about the importance of our work in global lung health. Here, she shares a story of one woman who was nurtured from near-death and now helps to fight AIDS in her home country of Kenya. Watch the video Symposium: Mass Media in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from World Lung Foundation campaigns 330 million smokers live in China alone. Following the conference theme "Poverty and Lung Health," WLF and partners presented mass media campaigns developed in various low- and middle-income countries with high smoking prevalence, including China, Mexico and Turkey. View the presentations Posters: Mass Media Planning and Implementation & Smoke-Free India WLF presented posters at two sessions: The first uses WLF examples to illustrate the best-practice model for developing mass media campaigns. The second outlines India's powerful smoke-free media campaign, developed in conjunction with the Government of India. View the posters