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WUN Research Development Fund (RDF) Application Form

Program Title: Media, tobacco, and trade: innovative approaches to reducing non-communicable disease in the Pacific region

Lead Institution: University of Auckland, School of Population Health Principal Investigator (PI) Name: Dr Judith McCool PI Title: Dr (Senior Lecturer) PI Department: Social and Community Health PI Email: j.mccool@auckland.ac.nz PI Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext: 82372 Program Description (summary for non specialists) 300 words max It is widely accepted that the most serious problem facing Pacific nations today is the rapid growth of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic lung disease. Tobacco smoking is recognised as the leading risk for all these NCDs. We aim to reduce the burden of NCDs in Pacific Island countries (PICs) through a multidisciplinary, lifecourse approach to reducing tobacco smoking that has at its core the building of Pacific capacity and capabilities in tobacco control research, practice and advocacy. Our approach will complement existing NCD plans for the PICs. The recent United Nations High Level Meeting on NCDs stressed that tackling the root causes of the NCD crisis in low and middle income countries is essential to success. In the PICs, tobacco control is compromised by bilateral or multilateral trade agreements, slow implementation of the global tobacco treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; weak enforcement of existing smoke free environment laws; and unrestricted sales and promotions of tobacco. To make matters worse, tobacco control advocacy, policy analysis, and research capacity are all under-resourced in the region. Public policy measures need to be driven by informed advocacy. The skills necessary for leadership and action in tobacco control include knowledge of the primary ‘macro’ factors driving tobacco use as well as feasible, cost effective and impactful interventions at national, community and individual levels. We propose to investigate the use of digital media to provide accessible and current tobacco control information to mobilise policy makers, key influencers, and the public (especially women and young people). Used hand in hand with traditional media, new media offer the prospect of making gains in tobacco control. Partner Institutions: WUN Partners: University of Auckland, University of Sydney; University of Alberta Non-WUN Partners: Fiji National University Other Partners (Corporate, Government, etc.): WHO (Western Pacific Office, Suva) are highly supportive of this project. Global Challenge Category Global Public Health: non-communicable disease

Amount of Funding Requested (amount should be entered in £) 15,000 GBP Matching cash funding pledged by WUN partners

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17,600 GBP as at 4/10/11 exchange rates (GDP 10,000 + CAD 2,500 + AUD 7,000 + FJ 5,000). Please refer to the assessment criteria in explaining the evidence for the following items: Evidence of Objectives: The proposal addresses the WUN Global Challenge in Public Health and NCDs in terms of both target population and innovative design and methods. It supports the UN’s Millennium Development Goal 6 (NCDs are a focus on health sector interventions in the Pacific region) as well as Goals 4 and 5 (tobacco use is a risk factor for maternal and child health). Our proposal also reflects the UN Declaration on NCDs, specifically Articles 52: ‘…strengthen national capacity for … all aspects related to the prevention and control of NCDs…’ and 53: ‘Promote the use of Information and Communications Technology to improve program implementation, health outcomes…’ The proposal is specifically targeted towards tobacco control in the PICs. We propose to adopt a lifecourse approach to investigating this pressing issue, seeking innovative ways, including the use of new digital technologies and social media, to engage women, children, and adolescents. We will work directly with tobacco control workers in the PICs to build capability, teaching media skills including media advocacy to ensure the broad dissemination of messages to population groups. Research plan: 1. 1.1 baseline research to understand the tobacco control competencies, strategies, and frameworks in the region, including regional capability in media advocacy; 1.2 cross-sectional analysis of media consumption patterns within a sample of PIC populations. 2. Skill-building workshop, evidence based, aimed at PICs' tobacco control workforce to develop specific capabilities needed for effective tobacco control, including media advocacy skills, current media methodologies. 3. Evaluation of: partnership process, workshop development, workshop effectiveness. Evidence of Quality: This is an inter-disciplinary collaboration between the Global Health Group at the University of Auckland, and teams at the University of Sydney, University of Alberta, and Fiji National University. All four partners have a track record of leading internationally funded research projects in tobacco control, Pacific health policy, international trade law, and media advocacy. The University of Auckland members are specialists in global health, Pacific health, and international law, with many papers in leading academic journals and a reputation for integrity and leadership in Pacific research. With funding from AusAID, SPC, and WHO, we have developed and successfully implemented training initiatives for the Pacific health workforce. Collectively, the international team has expertise in the practical application of innovative research and intervention for sustainable health gains in the Pacific region. We already have extensive Pacific networks and relevant research collaborations in the region: Joel Negin (USyd) has undertaken extensive NCD policy analysis in the Pacific for the AusAID-funded Knowledge Hub on Health Policy and Health Financing. Becky Freeman is an authority on the potential of the Internet to circumvent tobacco advertising bans. She is the Associate Editor of New Media for the international journal Tobacco Control, and a consultant to the WHO. Wendy Snowdon is Director for the Centre for Prevention of Obesity and Non-Communicable Disease, leading its research on Pacific nutrition and obesity risk factors and interventions. John Church and Les Hagan's expertise is in media advocacy skills, drawing on results from four years of evaluation of an Alberta tobacco control media advocacy initiative. Evidence of Leadership: The UoA Global Health Group has a track record of leadership and innovation, with funding from the Wellcome Trust, the Bloomberg Initiative, and AuSAID. In 2009, we established the Andrews Family Fellowship Programme with the Fiji National University to support capacity development. In 2011, we won the Bloomberg Initiative Award (established by the Mayor of New York to support high impact, evidence-based tobacco control initiatives). We are currently leading international research collaborations on global health topics, including NCD prevention and policy (UN High Level Meeting on NCD).

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The School of Public Health at the University of Sydney is recognised as a world leader in tobacco control, and its researchers as global experts in the field. The investigators in this project have published tobacco control research papers in high impact journals, established a global tobacco control network, and contributed to health policy development in the Pacific region. The Center for Health Promotion Studies, University of Alberta, has an international reputation for media advocacy for public health promotion research. The media advocacy tool to be developed in this project will draw upon the extensive trialing and evaluation of a model developed by A/Prof Church and Les Hagan (ASH Canada). Fiji National University is the primary Pacific health training institution in the Pacific Islands region, delivering training in medicine, public health, and allied areas. The C-POND Research Centre conducts research on chronic disease prevention. The Centre is leading efforts within the University to support relevant research and research utilisation. The project will support a Pacific postgraduate student (Masters or PhD). Evidence of Sustainability: USyd, U Alberta and FNU have collectively committed $7,600 GBP to this proposal (see letters of support). We will seek external research funding so that the collaboration can continue beyond this project. For the future, we will establish a dialogue with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to explore how transferrable learning from the Pacific work can support their mission in their target regions, and seek funding from their Global Health programme. We will also build links with large Gates funded projects in tobacco control with a view to subcontracting. We will apply to the US NIH, either to an ‘International Cooperation’ call or where we can demonstrate relevance to US Health aims, or alternatively to a US Pacific population. Similarly we can receive funding via subaward from Alberta from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) where our work can support improved Canadian health outcomes. EU FP7 funding presents opportunities - particularly in the context of the PACE-NET project for EU-Pacific Research and the appearance in the 2012 Work Programme of a call specifically referencing the Pacific. Finally, we are hoping the collaboration will lead to a stronger profile with which to bid for AusAID and USAid, as well as other relevant funders such as the Bloomberg Initiative with which we have already has some success. Anticipated Outputs (KPI’s), (Eg. joint publications, joint external funding applications, postgraduate training, software tools, noel archives, policy recommendation, etc.) We expect this project to produce the following outputs: 1. Media consumption data base for media based NCD research to inform future NCD prevention initiatives; 2. At least two publications in high-impact journals on the impact of a media advocacy tobacco skills workshop tobacco control / NCD intervention and impact in the Pacific region and the practicalities of making multidisciplinary academic teams work in developing contexts, for example; 3. Further international funding applications developed by the WUN team (e.g. AusAID, Bloomberg Initiative) for sustainable tobacco control funding to establish a Pacific tobacco control research and training network. 4. A Pacific-based PhD student identifying key leadership and advocacy skills in tobacco control, supported by a supervisors and advisory team within the WUN collaboration. 5. A review of the tobacco-control strategies and tools currently used for tobacco control that can be disseminated widely to inform policy and planning for tobacco control in the Pacific; 6. An array of current, cost effective tobacco control and advocacy tools relevant to the Pacific countries context (culturally, constitutionally and legally); 7. Evidence of development of competence in tobacco control and trade literacy skills among NCD workers in the Pacific region who have participated in the workshop(s).

Accompanying Information Checklist Attached (confirm): Letters of support from all partner institutions confirming matching support x Detailed program budget (1 page maximum) x Detailed program timeline (1 page maximum) x CVs of principal investigators (1 page maximum) x

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Nicholas Haskins International Development Manager (Networks) Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) 20 September 2011

Dr Judith McCool Senior Lecturer, Global Health Department of Social and Community Health School of Population Health, FMHS The University of Auckland New Zealand

Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) Room 206, Old Teachers’ College A22 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia

T +61 2 9036 7219 F +61 2 9351 4462 E nicholas.haskins@sydney.edu.au sydney.edu.au

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Dear Dr McCool The University of Sydney supports your submission to the WUN Research Development Fund 2011 titled Academic engagement within the Pacific on tobacco control: strengthening capacity, capability and innovation. We consider this an important and welcome initiative that demonstrates great potential to contribute meaningfully to international research in tobacco control. Dr Becky Freeman and Mr Joel Negin from our School of Public Health have both expressed their interest in and commitment to participating in this initiative. The University of Sydney is a leading centre for research into non-communicable diseases and tobacco control, both nationally and globally. The School of Public Health has a global reputation for research excellence and has considerable expertise in outreach, capacity building, and research in the Pacific region. The University of Sydney pledges AUD$7,000 in seed funding to support this proposal. This funding will be used to support the participation of Dr Freeman in a proposed planning workshop in the Pacific Islands in 2012 and related research activities. This funding is contingent on securing a WUN Research Development Fund grant. I wish you the best of luck with your submission and I recommend it highly to the WUN Research Development Fund committee. Yours sincerely

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Dr Judith McCool Senior Lecturer, Global Health Department of Social and Community Health School of Population Health, FMHS The University of Auckland New Zealand Dear Dr McCool The College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences strongly endorses your submission to the WUN Research Development Fund entitled Academic engagement within the Pacific on tobacco control: strengthening capacity, capability and innovation. We consider this an important and welcome initiative that demonstrates great potential to contribute meaningfully to Regional research in tobacco control. As you will be well aware the Pacific Region is in a state of crisis in how to deal with Non-Communicable Diseases which have become an epidemic in every country. Cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and COAD are going to impact on the lives of almost every person and the sad fact is that use of tobacco is high and is also a significant issue is health professionals. The time for innovation and strengthening capacity and capability is now if we are going to reduce the huge burden of ill-health in the Pacific populations. As you will be aware the College has a long history which spans 125 years and is the key provider of education for medical and health professionals across the Pacific Islands. We see it as part of our Regional responsibility to do whatever we can to help with the crisis of preventable ill-health that is already upon the Region. There are a number of staff in our College who have indicated a strong interest in this initiative. They include myself, the Head of the Department of Medical Sciences, the Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and our full-time Wellness Officer. All will be delighted to contribute in a meaningful way to this important project. The College pledges FJ$5,000 in seed funding to support this proposal. This funding can be used to support the proposed planning workshop in the Pacific Islands in 2012 and related research activities. I wish you the all the best with your submission for a grant in such a critical area and I commend it to the WUN Research Development Fund committee. Yours sincerely

 Professor Ian Rouse Dean, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Fiji National University 

 30th September, 2011 

Ian.rouse@fnu.ac.fj 

College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences

WUN Project Timeline Key Objectives Methods Timeline Strategies to be undertaken

WUN team meeting and coordination planning

Meeting to be scheduled for early Feb 2012 for team to refine plans, resources, outputs and impacts (using LOGIC model). Recruitment of Pacific PhD student for project development and analysis

Jan – Feb 2012 Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand and via Skype for external and non-WUN partners to contribute to refining and updating methodology, timeline, plans and resources. Allocation of tasks and leadership roles for different stages of research plans.

1 (a) In-depth appraisal of the current level of tobacco control competencies. This will include the use of media advocacy skills as well as an analysis of available media technologies to determine reach of tobacco control messages through mainstream media;

In-depth interview with a sample of NCD workers, stakeholders (SPC, WHO) A review of materials used for tobacco control training and intervention

Feb 2012 – April 2012

Develop protocol and ethics application for survey questionnaire on tobacco control skills and competencies Analysis of results from survey and in-depth interviews

March – April 2012

Recruitment and interview of key tobacco control coordinators, NGOs and Ministry of Health NCD officials.

(b) Develop current profile of media consumption practices and preferences in a sample of Pacific Islands (e.g. Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands).

A database search of media distribution companies, media consumption research (if available) Cross-sectional survey of media consumption patterns and preferences by social-demographic factors.

Feb – April 2012 Survey and analysis of media access, consumption and preferences across a sample of PICs Presentation and discussion of in-depth interview and survey results within WUN team and allied non-WUN partners and PICs NCD stakeholders for feedback, consultation on workshop objectives.

2 A skill-building workshop for the Pacific tobacco control workforce based on evidence of tobacco control core competencies required to effectively progress tobacco control in the Pacific region. This will include media advocacy skills to disseminate information on emerging challenges and impacts of tobacco and trade.

Meeting with team (Skype and face to face) to develop workshop materials, to effectively and appropriately deliver a stimulating, skills-based workshop on tobacco control aimed at NCD / tobacco planners and intervention workers.

April– May 2012 Design and planning of workshop content, materials, and logistics. Adaptation of the Media Advocacy tool as developed by U Alberta to Pacific tobacco control context.

Three-day Pacific based workshop with NCD / tobacco control workers (supported by additional funding from SPC or WHO) to develop and refine tools for capacity building in tobacco control.

June 2012 Conduct a 3 day workshop in Auckland to coincide with WHO NCD workers meeting in Auckland, 2012 (see support letter from WHO, Suva).

Distribute and collate evaluation of workshop, including in-depth interviews on the process and impact.

June – July 2012 Follow-up evaluation for all participants, preparation of report, publication and presentation to WHO / SPC and interested MoH / NCD coordinators Evaluation report on the process of WUN based collaboration for regional NCD intervention.

3 Dissemination of findings: Write publication and proposal for full research funding to extend the programme and evaluate impact.

Review of process to date: including WUM operations, collaboration, methodologies and progress (according to WUN team defined objectives).

August - Sept 2012

Preparation of international funding application for AusAID (Sept), IDRC (Sept) and EU- Pacific research fund.

Academic engagement within the Pacific on tobacco control: strengthening capacity, capability and innovation. Budget Item Quantity Cost (GBP) Total COLLABORATORS MEETING Air travel for team meeting for study design, protocol development and planning (in Sydney)

1 x ALK – Syd 1 x Alberta - Syd

600 1800

600 1800

Local travel, accommodation and meals in Sydney 2 x 4 days 200/day 1600 PHASE ONE: RESEARCH Questionnaire protocol develop and pilot 1 3000 3000 Audio Recording device 2 200 400 Facilitating, translating and transcribing 20 stakeholder

interview 300/interview 6,000

Airfare 2 X Fiji rtn 1500 3000 Accommodation 4 days 150 600 PHASE TWO: WORKSHOP INTERVENTION Airfare for team to NZ for workshop 2 x Syd – ALK rtn

1 x Fiji – ALK rtn 1 x Alberta –Alk rtn

600 800 1800

1,200 800 1800

Accommodation 4 people / 4 days 120/day 1920 Local travel and meals 4 people / 4 days 100 1600 Incidentals (meals) 4 days 100 800 Workshop Refreshments 40 50 /pp 2000 Catering (evening) 40 50 2000 Meeting room hire 3 days 500 1500 Materials (printing/ distribution) 40 10 400 Equipment Hire 1 1000 1000 Teleconference 1 500 500 PHASE THREE: EVALUATION Review of workshop outcomes, evaluation of impact 1 500 500 TOTAL 32,620 (GBP) Support for participants to attend workshop will be provided by WHO as part of the capacity building initiative for NCD budget. The investigators welcome (and have called for) expressions of interest for collaboration from other WUN universities/relevant institutions.

NAME: Judith McCool CURRENT POSITION: Senior Lecturer DEPARTMENT: Social and Community Health, Faculty of Medical and

Health Science, University of Auckland. 2002 PhD (Health Psychology), Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT: 2011 Senior Lecturer, Global Health, Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland (.7 FTE). RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (2011): 2011 McCool J, Bullen C. Punching above its weight: Why New Zealand must maintain

leadership in global health. NZMJ (in press) 2011 Smith A, McCool J, Paynter J, Newcombe R. Youth opinions of tobacco control

measures in New Zealand: Do they care? Nicotine and Tob Res (in press). 2011 Hoek J, Gendall P, Gifford H, Pirikahu G, McCool J, Pene G, Edwards R, Thomson

G. Tobacco Branding, Plain Packaging, Pictorial Warnings, and Symbolic Consumption. Qualitative Health Research (in press).

2011 McCool J, Paynter J and Scragg R. Youth, tobacco industry and smoking behaviour: does visibility make a difference? New Zealand Medical Journal. 8 July 2011.

2011 Gendall P, Hoek J, Thomson G, Edwards R, Pene G, Gifford H, McCool J. Young adults’ interpretations of tobacco brands: implications for tobacco control. Nicotine and Tobacco Research May 26, 2011.

2011 Nosa V, Glover M, Min, S, Scragg R, Bullen C, McCool J, Kira A. ‘The use of ‘rollie’ in New Zealand: Preference for loose tobacco among an ethnically diverse low socio-economic urban population.’ N Z Med J 2011; 124(1338): 25-33

2011 McCool J, Woodward A and Percival T. Health of Pacific Islanders: achievements and challenges. Asia Pacific J of Public Health, Vol 23 (1): 5-6.

2011 Bong, G and McCool J. Chinese peoples' perceptions of colon cancer screening: A New Zealand perspective. New Zealand Medical Journal; 124(1331).

2011 McCool J, Paynter J and Scragg R. A cross-sectional study of opinions related to the tobacco industry and the association with smoking status among 14-15 year old teenagers in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal; 124(1338).

2011 Cussen A and McCool J. Tobacco Promotion in the Pacific: the current state of tobacco promotion bans and options for accelerating progress. Asia Pacific J of Public Health, 23(1): 70-78.

2011 Tamasalau Suaalii-Suani T, Aiavao F, Faafeu-Hope E, Sopoaga T, Paul C, Rihharts A, McCool J, Kirifi-Alai T, Hill P and Fuatai F. Strengthening health research capacity from within Samoa. Asia Pacific J of Public Health; 23(1): 100-109.

2011 Watson, D., Glover, M., McCool, J., Bullen, C., Adams, B. ‘Impact of a National Smokefree Environments Law on Teachers, Schools and Early Childhood Centre Environments.’ Health Promotion Journal of Australia.

Assoc Prof Christopher Bullen, The University of Auckland – Summary CV Personal details Full name Title

Associate Professor

First name

Christopher Second name(s)

Roy Family name

Bullen

Present position Director, Clinical Trials Research Unit Organisation/Employer Clinical Trials Research Unit Contact Address The University of Auckland

Private Bag 92019, Auckland Mail Centre Auckland Post code 1142

Work telephone 09 3737599 ext 84730 Mobile 021415267 Email c.bullen@ctru.auckland.ac.nz Academic qualifications 2010 Doctor of Philosophy Community Health University of

Auckland 2009 Fellow of the New Zealand College

of Public Health Medicine Public Health Medicine

New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine

1997 Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Public Health Medicine

Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Professional positions held 2009- current Director, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland 2006-2008 Associate Director, Clinical Trials Research

Unit, (0.8) University of Auckland

1999-2006 Senior lecturer in public health, Department of Community Health/Epidemiology & Biostatistics

University of Auckland

Present research/professional speciality My current primary research focus is in the field of non-communicable diseases in particular tobacco control, and designing and conducting pragmatic trials of affordable and novel interventions with potential for greatest population health impact. In addition, I am active in research on global health issues, and research on medical and postgraduate education in public and global health. Total number of peer reviewed publications and patents

Journal articles

Books, book chapters, books

edited

Conference proceedings

Patents

83 2 >100 0

Professor (Elizabeth) Jane Kelsey, The University of Auckland – Summary CV Employment: Appointed Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1979 Awarded a personal Chair in Law, 1997 Qualifications: PhD University of Auckland 1992 Bachelor of Civil Law, Oxford University 1978 Master of Philosophy (Criminology), Cambridge University 1979 LLB(Hons), Victoria University of Wellington 1976 Books

1. No Ordinary Deal. Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (2010) (editor), Wellington: Bridget Williams Books/ Sydney: Allen & Unwin

2. The Political Economy of the GATS: Taking Services to Market (2008) London: Routledge

3. International Economic Regulation (2002) Aldershot: Dartmouth Press for the Library of Essays in International Law

4. At the Crossroads. Three Essays (2002) Wellington: Bridget Williams Books 5. Reclaiming the Future. New Zealand in the Global Economy, (1999) Wellington:

Bridget Williams Books (also published by University of Toronto Press, 2000) 6. The New Zealand Experiment. A World Model for Structural Adjustment?, (1995)

Auckland: Auckland University Press (2nd ed 1997); 1st edition published as Economic Fundamentalism, London: Pluto

7. Rolling Back the State. Privatisation of Power in Aotearoa/New Zealand, (1993) Wellington: Bridget Williams Books

8. A Question of Honour? Labour and the Treaty 1984-1989 (1990) Wellington: Allen & Unwin

More than 50 book chapters and journal articles Major research interests:

The implications of international trade and investment agreements for domestic law, policy and governance, with particular reference to the GATS, WTO, APEC and bilateral agreements.

The political economy of law in the context of globalisation. Trade issues confronting Pacific Islands countries International policy transfer of New Zealand’s neoliberal law and policy model.

Current projects: A two-year research grant from the Marsden Fund, entitled ‘Embedded Neoliberalism in a post-Neoliberal Era’ Trade Issues arising from Recommendations of the Maori Affairs Committee on Tobacco Controls, part of Turanga Project Final round tender for the Social Impact Assessment of the Services Annex to the Pacific Islands Countries Trade Agreement

Dr Becky Freeman, University of Sydney – Summary CV Becky Freeman has been employed as a full time academic at the School of Public Health since November 2006. During this time, she has published fourteen research papers, seven Letters to Editors/Short Commentaries in Peer Reviewed Journals, four book chapters, seven pieces of journalism and one major report. She was awarded her PhD, titled Tobacco control 2.0: Studies on the relevance of online media to tobacco control, in July 2011. Freeman has established herself as an authority on the potential of the Internet to circumvent tobacco advertising bans. She was the first researcher to publish papers on tobacco product promotions through the online social media websites YouTube and Facebook. Freeman’s H index = 8. In 2011, on the strength of this research output she was promoted from a Level A to a Level B Academic staff member. In 2008, Freeman successfully applied for her first project grant from the National Health Medical Research Council [NHMRC]: The use of Web 2.0 internet sites to undermine tobacco advertising bans and to mobilise tobacco control advocates 2009-2012. She is named Chief Investigator B on the grant and had a lead role in designing the research methodology, preparing the submission and having been successfully funded, carrying out the project. She was one of only 2% of all successfully funded Chief Investigators that were not described as Professors, Associate Professors or Doctors. In 2008, Freeman served as an advisor to the WHO expert panel on tobacco industry interference in tobacco control. As part of her role, she prepared a background report to guide the discussion and recommendations of this international panel. In 2009, the report was published by the WHO: Tobacco Industry Interference with Tobacco Control. She is currently a consultant to the WHO and is writing technical guidelines for the implementation of Article 13, tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This is an international treaty ratified by 172 nations. Freeman has been invited to speak about her research at several conferences. She was a plenary speaker at the 2010 Smoke Free Futures: Tobacco Control Conference held in Cardiff, UK, and the opening plenary speaker at the 5th National Canadian Conference on Tobacco or Health in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2009 she was also an invited by the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative to be a panellist on Internet marketing at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health held in Mumbai, India. She has also delivered several interactive workshops to international delegates on how to use and monitor social media for tobacco control. In October 2009, Freeman was an invited speaker to the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference in Darwin, NT. Her presentation, Tobacco Advertising, Promotion and Sponsorship (TAPS) 2.0: Turning off the TAPS in the digital world, was selected by the conference organisers to feature in a media release promoting the conference. She attracted substantial radio, print and television coverage for her research demonstrating that tobacco companies and tobacco brands were being heavily promoted through social media, such as Facebook. In response to this media coverage, the Federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, instructed the Health department to investigate online tobacco promotions. Freeman completed her undergraduate degree in Biology in 1998 and a Master of Science in health promotion in 2005, both from the University of Alberta in Canada. Prior to pursuing her research interests, Freeman held tobacco control positions in Canada with both government and not-for-profit organisations. In 2004, she was selected from a competitive pool of international applicants for the Director position of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in New Zealand. While with ASH, she was part of several research initiatives, including managing and designing a tobacco use and behaviour survey of 34,000 Year 10 students.

Joel NEGIN School of Public Health, University of Sydney; +61-2-9114-0974; joel.negin@sydney.edu.au PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Feb 2008 – present: SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Senior Lecturer (from Jan 2011) and Lecturer in International Public Health

Teach units Global Perspective on HIV/AIDS, International Health Project Management, Foundations of International Health, Health Systems in Developing Countries, and lecture on health and development issues

Current research projects include HIV among older adults, analysis of Sector Wide Approaches and aid effectiveness in the Pacific, and agriculture-health-nutrition nexus in Africa. Conduct commissioned studies for the Australian Agency for International Development and the Commission on AIDS in the Pacific.

June 2005 – Dec 2007: EARTH INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (New York, USA and Nairobi, Kenya) Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project and Technical Adviser, Kenyan National AIDS Control Council

Coordinated health aspects of multi-sectoral rural development research project led by Professor Jeffrey Sachs in collaboration with African governments and UNDP in 12 sites in 10 African countries with the objective of achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Provided overall strategic support to senior staff on challenges facing Kenya’s government body tasked with coordinating national response to HIV/AIDS

EDUCATION Feb 2010 – present: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, Sydney School of Public Health PhD Candidate

Dissertation focusing on HIV among older adults in sub-Saharan Africa Sep 2003 – May 2005: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, School of International and Public Affairs (New York, USA) Masters of International Affairs in Economic and Political Development

Grade Point Average: 4.0 (out of 4.0) Sep 1995 – June 1999: HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Cambridge, MA, USA) Bachelor of Arts (Magna cum Laude) in History and Literature SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Negin J, Mills EJ, Albone R. Continued neglect of ageing of HIV epidemic at UN meeting. Lancet 2011; 378:768.

2. Asante AD, Negin J, Hall J, Dewdney J, Zwi AB. Cuban health assistance program and human resources for health challenges in the Pacific: analysis of policy implications. Human Resources for Health. Forthcoming.

3. Negin J, Martiniuk ALC. Sector Wide Approaches for health in small island states – lessons learned from the Solomon Islands. Global Public Health. 8 July 2011. Epub ahead of print.

4. Martiniuk A, Negin J, Hersch F, Dalipanda T, Jagilli R, Houasia P, Gorringe L, Christie A. Telemedicine in the Solomon Islands: 2006 to 2009. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2011;17(5):251-6.

5. Negin J, Cumming R, de Ramirez SS, Abimbola S, Sachs SE. Risk factors for non-communicable diseases among older adults in rural Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2011;16(5):640-646.

6. Negin J, Roberts G, Lingam D. The Evolution of Primary Heath Care in Fiji: Past, Present and Future. Pacific Health Dialogue 2010;16(2)13-23.

7. Snowdon W, Negin J, Moodie M. Building an economic case for food interventions in the Pacific. Pacific Health Dialogue 2010;16(2):24-29.

JOHN CHURCH, University of Alberta, Summary CV Contact Information: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Centre for Health Promotion Studies, 1001 College Plaza, 8215-112 Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2C8 E-mail: john.church@ualberta.ca; Voice: 780.492.9054; Fax: 780.492.2373 Education: Ph.D. (Political Science), University of Western Ontario, 1994. Recent Relevant Grant Activity: Church, J., Cohen, J., Nykiforuk, C., Norman, C. and Moore, S. Understanding Tobacco Control Policy Through Network Analysis, Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative, July 2009-December 2011

Church, J., Nykiforuk, C., Cohen, J., Devereaux, Z., Hagen, L., Exploring the Policy Discourse on Tobacco Control in Canada, Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative, August 2007-August 2008, $45,300.

Recent Relevant Community-Based Evaluation Research: Alberta Addictions, Drug and Alcohol Commission, Alberta Health Services and Action on Smoking and Health (Alberta), “Developing an Earned Media Strategy for Tobacco Control in Alberta: Evaluation,” 2007-ongoing. Recent Relevant Teaching: Centre for Health Promotion Studies (cross-appointment), University of Alberta, Effective July 1, 2005. Courses: HPS 506, HPS 507, HPS 900. subjects: public policy and health promotion. Recent Relevant Publications: Vogel, E., Burt, S., and Church, J. (2010) "A Window into Nutrition Labelling Policymaking in Canada," Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, Spring, 7: 2, 85-92. Gladwin, C. P., Church, J. and Plotnikoff, R. C. (2008) "Public Policy Processes and Getting Physical Activity into Alberta's Urban Schools." Canadian Journal of Public Health. 99, 4, 332-337.

LES HAGEN University of Alberta Curriculum Vitae A veteran public health advocate and organizational leader who has shaped local, provincial, and national strategies to reduce and prevent tobacco use.

5620 – 148 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 4T8 Tel: 780-919-5546 E-mail: hagen@ash.ca

Professional Positions Executive Director, Action on Smoking & Health, 1989-present Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Alberta School of Public Health, 2009-present Major Achievements Established the first full-time provincial tobacco control agency in Canada—Action on

Smoking & Health. ASH is Western Canada’s leading tobacco control agency. Contributed to the creation and development of the Alberta Tobacco Reduction

Strategy—a comprehensive $11.7 million provincial strategy to reduce tobacco use. Helped to secure the largest one-year decline in tobacco consumption in Canadian

history (Alberta, 2002). Helped to restore Canadian tobacco taxes to pre-1994 levels. Helped to secure one of the most comprehensive provincial tobacco control laws in

Canada—Alberta’s Tobacco Reduction Act. Personally raised over $3 million for tobacco reduction activities in Alberta. Formal Education Effective Team Leadership, Banff Centre for Management, 1996 Business Management Certificate, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology,

1991 Diploma of Technology, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, 1983 Various management courses, workshops and retreats. Major Awards Canadian Public Health Association Award of Merit, 2009 Barb Tarbox Award of Excellence, 2008 The Lung Association of Alberta Lorraine Award, 2008

Dr Wendy Snowdon, Fiji School of Medicine and Deakin University, Summary CV Email: wendy.snowdon@deakin.edu.au and wendy.snowdon@fnu.ac.fj In the last two years Dr Snowdon has led activities to establish a new research centre for NCDs in the Pacific Islands (C-POND), and is the Co-ordinator of the Centre. This has included the integration of existing research projects and staff, along with the development of new research projects. The post is jointly funded by the Fiji School of Medicine and Deakin University. Networking and collaboration is a key part of this work, and the Centre is working collaboratively with a number of academic institutions. It is currently undertaking a range of research projects including ones on sodium intake assessment in Fiji, knowledge exchange, socio-cultural influences on lifestyle and policy development, secondary data analysis, cost-effectiveness modeling and nutrient content of processed foods. Research activities will be undertaken this year in at least seven Pacific Island Countries. From 2007 to 2009, Dr Snowdon was a full-time PhD student at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University. Her PhD research focused on identifying the best policy interventions to control NCDs through dietary change in Fiji and Tonga. The research used a combination of participatory processes combined with economic modeling to identify the policy problem areas and policy solutions and then to prioritise those solutions. The participatory part of the research is now being incorporated into a set of tools on priority setting for obesity prevention for the World Health Organisation. This follows discussion of the approach at an Expert Consultation on Obesity Prevention in Children. The economic modeling component has been expanded to cover more impacts and interventions and has recently been used in seven Pacific Island Countries. Dr Snowdon has lived and worked in the Pacific Island region for the last twelve years and during this time has worked with and for key organisations. From 2000 to 2006 she was employed at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, supporting 21 Pacific Island countries in the areas of nutrition and non-communicable disease prevention. After leaving in 2006 to undertake a Masters degree in International Public Health, Dr Snowdon continued to work part-time for SPC for six months. During the three and a half years of study she also undertook consultancy work for WHO, SPC and the University of the South Pacific. From 1998 to 2000 she was health and nutrition officer for UNICEF in Chuuk, Micronesia, with a focus on maternal and child health and primary healthcare. Dr Snowdon has also worked extensively with government agencies and practitioners. She has considerable experience in developing and implementing projects across the Pacific Islands, managing staff, budgets and timelines. Dr Snowdon has a strong background in health promotion and public health, including Masters Degrees in each of these topics. These qualifications provide an important theoretical background for the work undertaken. Solution-oriented research is a key focus of her current work, and with experience of undertaking research in the region she has been able to provide relevant and useful information to governments and agencies. Despite being an early career researcher, she has 17 peer-reviewed publications and multiple other publications, and has given over 20 conference presentations in recent years, and has also been an invited speaker at multiple technical meetings in the Pacific Islands in the last decade. Prior to Dr Snowdon’s arrival in the Pacific Islands in 1998, she worked as a Community Nutrition Adviser for a health authority in the UK, and completed her Masters in Health Promotion through part-time study.