Language Program Date Tuition English November 12 - 23, 2007 US $3500 English November 3 - 14, 2008 US $3500 Conducted at Institute for Training & Research in Family Planning (ITRFP), Alexandria, Egypt

In an effort to comply with the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), many countries are reducing their smoking rates, preventing youth tobacco addiction, and clearing the smoke from indoor environments through progressive comprehensive tobacco control policies. This course will review recent international research findings on the effects of smoking and second hand smoke, especially as these impact maternal, child, and reproductive health. The course, which includes religious perspectives on tobacco use, will also review global case studies of successful projects, especially from Southern European & Middle Eastern countries.

The course consists of a hands-on learning model combining site visits, classroom sessions and field experiences. Participants will gather data in community settings, survey tobacco advertising in communities, and develop leadership, communication and media skills to reduce the damaging impacts of tobacco use and second hand smoke exposure to mothers, infants, children, non-smoking workers and other populations.

Participants will develop action plans (responsive to the Islamic perspective on smoking) and outcome-based evaluation including:

1. Community public education and media campaigns about the harmful effects of chewing tobacco, smoking (cigarette and hookah) and second hand smoke;
2. Community education and media campaigns for smoke free homes to effectively protect expecting mothers, infants, children, and other non-smokers;
3. Youth addiction prevention strategies, reducing youth access to tobacco products and countering the effects of tobacco marketing, such as smoking in films;
4. Smoke-free public environmental policies (including implementation and enforcement strategies).

Performance Objectives:

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Discuss (and develop presentations) on health and social impacts of second hand smoke exposure, particularly on maternal and child health.
• Describe how smoking laws can be updated, implemented, and enforced to meet international public health standards set by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
• Describe potential health outcomes related to decreases in the following: morbidity and mortality rates, direct and indirect medical care costs, fires, youth smoking rates, and other public health benefits.

Site Visits:

• Meeting with local Islamic Clerics and Scholars concerning the teachings of Islam (in Egypt) with regard to disease prevention and smoking.
• Egyptian Smoking Prevention Research Institute and WHO Cairo.
• Community data gathering expeditions to conduct (1) observations of tobacco availability to youth and (2) second hand smoke air quality measurement tests.
• Meeting with local radio or television stations to learn how to develop a social marketing media campaign about the effects of smoking and second hand smoke exposure.

Who Should Attend:

Researchers, physicians, nurses, hospital and clinic administrators, staff of health promotion and disease prevention agencies, public health professionals, educators and students, legislative policy decision makers, community planners, leaders and members of both government and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s).