Title: A Smoke-Free World

Speaker: Dr. Derek Yach, President of Foundation for a Smoke-Free World

Date and Time: 7：00PM, October 9th

Venue: Auditorium

Abstract:

Dr. Derek Yach will introduce the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and how being in China helps them in the work they are doing. He will also talk about his time at the WHO.

Biography:

Dr. Derek Yach, a global health expert and anti-smoking advocate for more than 30 years, is the president of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. Throughout his career, he has supported and led smoking cessation research and policy development and has been a strong proponent of harm-reduction policies.

Dr. Yach is also a former World Health Organization (WHO) cabinet director and executive director for noncommunicable diseases and mental health where he was deeply involved with the development of the world's treaty on tobacco control, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

He is also the former Chief Health Officer of the Vitality Group, Executive Director of the Vitality Institute, SVP global health and agriculture policy at Pepsi Co., Director of Global Health at the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Professor of Global Health at Yale University. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed articles on global health.