Under the auspices of H.E Minister of Public Health Dr. Mohammad Jawad Khalife, the Ministry of Public Health, the Tobacco Control Research Group at AUB& the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB cordially invite you to a lecture and public discussion carrying the title
‘Is Lebanon Ready for Tobacco Control?
Lessons to be learned from other Countries' Experiences’

The lecture will be held on Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 5.30 pm at the Gefinor Rotana Hotel, Beirut. It shall be delivered by Dr. Gregory Connolly, a Professor of the Practice of Public Health at the School of Public Health in Harvard, Boston, USA.
Gregory N. Connolly, D.M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health and a member of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor awarded to Harvard School of Public Health by the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (FAMRI).
His research focuses on the prevention and control of tobacco and tobacco related disease. He conducts research on tobacco product design, reduced risk tobacco products, global tobacco issues, efficacy of tobacco control interventions and the structure and marketing practices of the tobacco industry.