The INFO Project Blog

Here at CCP and INFO we mostly talk about reproductive health, however several of our CCP staff are involved in global tobacco control work as part of the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.   Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York city has pledged $125 million to aid in global tobacco control.  The initiative focuses on tobacco control in 15 key countries where smoking rates are the highest.  The initiative has named five partner organizations to work on in-country tobacco control and awarding grants to smaller organizations.  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of the partner organizations, and CCP has been working with several country teams on tobacco behavior change campaigns.

Johns Hopkins’ own tobacco control experts Heather Wipfli and Jonathan Samet recently participated in a Question and Answers session for Newsweek.com on global tobacco control in the 21st century.  The interview discusses the new World Health Organization (another Bloomberg partner organization) 2008 Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic.