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With thanks to all reviewers who volunteered and contributed to peer review of the abstracts and symposia and thanks to their and strong community we can fight tobacco epidemics:

Palitha Abeykoon, Sri Lanka

Daouda Adam, Zimbabwe

Akindele Adebiyi, Nigeria

Saima Afaq, United Kingdom

Abdillah Ahsan, Indonesia

Kingsley Akinroye, Nigeria

Raouf Alebshehy, United Kingdom

Cyril Alexander, India

Issah Ali, Ghana

Shane Allwright, Ireland

Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, Indonesia

Pinar Ay, Turkey

Lekan Ayo-Yusuf, South Africa

Oumar Ba, Senegal

Adriana Bacelar Gomes, United States of America

Jude Ball, New Zealand

Khushbu Balsara,

Tara Singh Bam, Singapore

Smita Baruah, United States of America

Emmanuelle Béguinot, France

Itziar Belausteguigoitia, Mexico

Sofia Belo Ravara, Portugal

Sarunya Benjakul, Thailand

Ivan Berlin, France

Catherine Best, United Kingdom

Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan, Bangladesh

Stella Bialous, United States of America

Eduardo Bianco, Uruguay

Johanna Birckmayer, United States of America

Martina Blake, Ireland

Michele Bloch, United States of America

Emily Brennan, Australia

Jamie Brown, United Kingdom

Jennifer Brown, United States of America

Juan Carballo, Argentina 

Maria-Alejandra Cardenas, France

Asli Carkoglu, Turkey

VALESKA CARVALHO FIGUEIREDO, Brazil

Devika Chadha, India

Phil Chamberlain, United Kingdom

Ananda Chand, Nepal

Deborah Anne Chen, Jamaica

Zunda Chisha, South Africa

Brenda Chitindi, Zambia

Sohel Reza Choudhury, Bangladesh

Magdalena Ciobanu, Romania

Angela CIOBANU, Denmark

Roger Ciza, Burundi

Luke Clancy, Ireland

Jeff Collin, United Kingdom

João Cordeiro da Costa, Portugal

Des Cox, Ireland

Eric Crosbie, United States of America

Andrea Crossfield, United Kingdom

Lauren Czaplicki, United States of America

Elif Dagli, Turkey

Mike Daube, Australia

Sampath De Seram, Sri Lanka

Daniel Dorado, Ecuador

Edgardo Ulysses Dorotheo, Philippines

Frank Doyle, Ireland

Jacqui Drope, Canada

Richard Edwards, Australia

Tobias Effertz, Germany

Catherine Egbe, South Africa

Fatimah El-Awa, Egypt

Toker Ergüder, Turkey

Olufemi Erinoso, United States of America

Elba Esteves, Uruguay

David Evans, Ireland

Babalola Faseru, United States of America

Filippos Filippidis, United Kingdom

Patricia Fitzpatrick, Ireland

Geoffrey Fong, Canada

Becky Freeman, Australia

Dongbo Fu, Switzerland

Silvano Gallus, Italy

Sonu Goel, India

Adam Goldstein, United States of America

Fastone Matthew Goma, Zambia

Maciej Goniewicz, United States of America

Rizalina Racquel Gonzalez, Philippines

Mark Goodchild, Switzerland

Asli Gorek Dilektasli, Turkey

Lorraine Greaves, Canada

Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Australia

Graziele Grilo, United States of America

Carlos Manuel Guerrero López, Mexico

Emmanuel Guindon, Canada

Prakash Gupta, India

Houria Haouichat, Algeria 

Mervi Hara, Finland

Jeff Hardesty, United States of America

Melissa Blythe Harrell, United States of America

Catherine Hayes, Ireland

Stephen Hecht, United States of America

Marita Hefler, Australia

Rosemary Hiscock, United Kingdom

Fenton Howell, Ireland

Laurent Hurber, United States of America

Doan Huyen, Viet Nam

Andrew Hyland, United States of America

Roberto Iglesias, Brazil

Philip Jakpor, Nigeria

Paula Johns, Brazil

Hayley Jones, Australia

Zubair Kabir, Ireland

Mina Kashiwabara, Philippines

Paraskevi Katsaounou, Greece

Jagdish Kaur, India

Paul Kavanagh, Ireland

Cecily Kelleher, Ireland

Ryan David Kennedy, United States of America

Olga Knorre, Portugal

Jonatan Konfino, Argentina 

Grace Kong, United States of America

Soewarta Kosen, Indonesia

Mirte Kuipers, Netherlands

Swasticharan Leimapokpam, India

Bruce Leistikow, United States of America

Raphael Lencucha, Canada

Keir Lewis, United Kingdom

Gracia Mabaya, Canada

Peter Magati, Kenya

Ban Majeed, United States of America

Muniyandi Malaisamy, India

Sehr Malik, United States of America

Hadii Mamudu, United States of America

Cristina Martinez, Spain

Kanagavalli Mathivathanan, United States of America

Manu Mathur, India

Bontle Mbongwe, Botswana

Lazarous Mbulo, United States of America

Noel McCarthy, Ireland

Triona McCarthy, Ireland

Christine McGarrigle, Ireland

Raul Mejia, Argentina 

Mars Mendoza, Philippines

Ada Moadsiri, Philippines

Paola Morello, Argentina 

Bigwanto Mouhamad, Indonesia

Ana Mugosa, Montenegro

Maurice Mulcahy, Ireland

Nandita Murukutla, United States of America

Phone Myint, Myanmar

Nigar Nargis, United States of America

Flore Ndembiyembe, Cameroon

Qinghua Nian, United States of America

Mohamad Haniki Nik Mohamed, Malaysia

Janine Nip, New Zealand

Rachel O’Donnell, United Kingdom

Oluwakemi Odukoya, Nigeria

Yvonne Olando, Kenya

Andre Luiz Oliveira da Silva, Brazil

Hilal Ozcebe, Turkey

Guillermo Paraje, Chile

Musavuli Patrick, Switzerland

Manuja Perera, Sri Lanka

Anne-Marie Perucic, Mauritius

Gan Quan, United States of America

Farrukh QURESHI, Sri Lanka

Ataur Rahman, Bangladesh

Nivo Ramanandraibe, Congo

Alejandro Ramos-Carbajales, Uruguay

Sophapan Ratanachena-McWhortor, Thailand

Luz Myriam Reynales – Shigematsu, Mexico

Megan Ribichaud, United States of America

Pieter Rijswijk, Netherlands

Shyanika Rose, United States of America

Hana Ross, Czechia

Matthew A. Sadlier, Ireland

Jamilya Sadykova, Kazakhstan

Belen Saenz de Miera, Mexico

Rosa Carolina Sandoval, United States of America

Barbara Schillo, United States of America

Neil Schluger, United States of America

Ernesto Sebrie, United States of America

Sean Semple, United Kingdom

Leonce Sessou, Togo

Aishling Sheridan, Ireland

Kawkab Shishani, United States of America

Radhika Shrivastav, India

Faraz Siddiqui, United Kingdom

Shalini Singh, United States of America

Helma Slingerland, Netherlands

Katherine Clegg Smith, United States of America

Joan B Soriano, Spain

Torra Spillane, United States of America

Chandrashekhar Sreeramareddy, Malaysia

Irina Stepanov, United States of America

Zeenat Sultana, Bangladesh

Deborah Sy, Thailand

Andre Szklo, Brazil

Yelena Tarasenko, United States of America

Jim Thrasher, Mexico

Tuo-Yen Tseng, United States of America

Silvana Turci, Brazil

Kazuyuki Uji, Thailand

Mons Ute, Germany

Victor Valdivia, United States of America

Yvette van der Eijk, Singapore

Corne van Walbeek, South Africa

Richard Van Zyl-Smit, South Africa

Nuntavarn Vichit-Vadakan, Thailand

Tatiana Villacres, Canada

Xia Wan, China

Kevin Welding, United States of America

Nevin Wilson, Egypt

Amit Yadav, India

Tingting Yao, United States of America

Fusun Yildiz, Cyprus

Rose Zheng, China

Wendi Zhou, Canada

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Dr. Fenton Howell

Advisory Board Member, local liaison

Dr. Fenton Howell is medical graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland, and completed higher specialist training in Public Health Medicine in 1991. He is the former National Tobacco Control Adviser to the Department of Health, is a Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin, and is a board member of the National Cancer Registry Ireland. Dr. Fenton Howell is a Fellow of both the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is a past Dean of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland, and past President of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, the All Ireland Social Medicine Group and the Irish Medical Organization. He has previously served on the boards of ASH Ireland, the Tobacco Free Research Institute, the European Network on Smoking Prevention, the Institute of Public Health in Ireland and the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, and he chaired the Prevention Working Group for the Ireland–Northern Ireland–United States National Cancer Institute Cancer Consortium.

Dr. Gan Quan

Advisory Board Chair

Dr. Gan Quan, PhD, is Senior Vice President at Vital Strategies, where he leads the Tobacco Control Division, comprising a global team working with governments and civil society partners around the world to reduce tobacco use, the leading preventive cause of deaths worldwide. The Division has supported work in more than 50 low- and middle-income countries with a focus on evidence-based tobacco control policies and implementation, capacity building, and countering interference from the tobacco industry.

Dr. Gan Quan has more than 15 years of international experience in health system building, policy implementation, government partnership, and policy research. Prior to joining Vital Strategies, Dr. Gan Quan spent 14 years with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), first as Technical Advisor, then Director of China Office, and most recently as Director of Tobacco Control Department. Before joining The Union, Dr. Gan Quan was a research fellow at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at University of California, San Francisco.