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Brussels, 27 September 2016 www.equipt.eu FINAL CONFERENCE (EQUIPT): COUNTING THE NET BENEFIT OF INVESTING IN EVIDENCE-BASED TOBACCO CONTROL IN EUROPE BRUSSELS, 27 SEPTEMBER 2016 2- EQUIPT Dear Delegates, Welcome to the EQUIPT Final Project Conference, Counting the Net Benefit of Final Project Investing in Evidence-based Tobacco Control in Europe. Conference Thanks to several innovations in recent decades - such as rigorous taxation, smoke- free legislation and the implementation of cost-effective stop-smoking interventions- smoking prevalence has declined over time. However, the rate at which smoking pre- valence is falling is stagnating and prevalence remains high in certain sub-groups WELCOME in the population. We know from the available evidence that coordinated, high impact and comprehen- sive approaches are the most effective ways to reduce smoking initiation, prevalence and intensity. However, policy makers and public health procurers still lack the data and financial justification to make the case for investment in tackling the scourge of tobacco. They need options that resonate to real practice and are cost-effective too. To fill this important gap in evidence, the EQUIPT project has brought together eleven institutions from seven European member states with multi-disciplinary expertise to provide policy makers and wider stakeholders with bespoke information about the economic and wider returns that investing in evidence-based tobacco control inclu- ding smoking cessation agendas can generate. On behalf of the full EQUIPT project team, it is my pleasure to present you with the results of three years of intense and passionate work on return on investment of to- bacco control policies, which is now to be consulted on the EQUIPT project website www.equipt.eu along with explanatory material on its use. Thank you to all partners and stakeholders for making EQUIPT a reality. On behalf of the EQUIPT Consortium, welcome to Brussels! DR SUBHASH POKHREL, EQUIPT Project Coordinator and WP4 co-chair Director, Division of Health Sciences, Brunel University London, UK -3 EQUIPT HOW TO JOIN THE CONFERENCE The EQUIPT project team is pleased to welcome you to the final project Final Project conference in Brussels on September 27, 2016, from 9.00 -16.30. Conference From Brussels National Airport (Zaventem) you can reach the conference venue by taxi, train (to Brussels Central Station or Brussels South Station) or by bus line 12 or 21 to Place Luxembourg. AGENDA From Brussels Central Station (Gare Centrale/Brussel Cen- AND traal) you can reach the conference venue by taxi or bus (71 to Porte de PRACTICAL Namur). DETAILS From Brussels South Station (Brussels Midi/Brussel Zuid) you can reach the conference venue by metro line 2 or 6 to the stop Louise. For any urgent questions please do not hesitate to contact us: Dominick Nguyen: [email protected] or +32 470 96 56 69 Andrea Glahn: [email protected] or +32 487 84 66 04 ACCOMMODATION AND CONFERENCE VENUE, Hotel: AQUA Hotel Rue de Stassart 43- 1050 Ixelles Tel +32 2 213 01 01 - [email protected] www.aqua-hotel-brussels.com If you have required so, reservation has been booked for you at the AQUA Hotel by the ENSP team. **Meet us in the lobby of AQUA Hotel on 27 September at 8:40 to walk together to the venue. Venue: NH Collection Hotel, Grand Sablon Rue Bodenbroek 2/4 - 1000 Brussels Tel +32 2 518 1100 http://www.nh-hotels.com/hotel/nhcollection-brussels-grand-sablon/ The conference venue is located 10 minutes walk from the AQUA Hotel. 4- EQUIPT Time Programme Lead Presenter 9.00 Registration/Coffee ENSP Final Project 9:30 Conference 9.30 Opening of the Conference MEP Karin Kadenbach 9.45 9.45 Introduction to the EQUIPT Project Dr Subhash Pokhrel PROGRAMME 10.15 10.15 Stakeholder engagement in Professor Silvia Evers 11.15 EQUIPT (2 papers) 27 SepteMBER 2016 NH SABLON Stakeholders’ views to inform the de- Prof. Silvia Evers velopment of EQUIPTMOD: methods COLLectiON, and key findings RUE BODENBROEK 2-4, Stakeholder engagement for re- Prof. Annette Boaz 1000 BRusseLS search impact: the SEEIMPACT study 11.15 Coffee break 11.30 11.30 EQUIPT tool to support deci- 13.15 sions (4 papers) EQUIPTMOD: methods and possibi- Prof. Doug Coyle lities for the economic model within the EQUIPT ROI tool Effectiveness and reach estimates for Prof. Robert West modelling return on investment from tobacco cessation interventions Treatment and intervention costs for Dr Marta Trapero-Bertran modelling return on investment from tobacco cessation interventions Country application of the EQUIPT Maximillian Präger, model: The case of Germany Prof. Reiner Leidl 13.15 Lunch 14.15 14.15 Transferability of EQUIPT to 16.00 CEE and beyond (3 papers) What opportunities can EQUIPT offer Prof. Zoltán Kaló to CEE and wider European coun- tries? Adapting EQUIPT tool to other coun- Dr Bertalan Nemeth tries: parameter needs and analysis EQUIPT experience for better tobac- Andrea Crossfield co control 16.00 Conclusions Cornel Radu-Loghin, 16.30 ENSP -5 EQUIPT MEP KARIN KADENBACH Karin Kadenbach (born 19 April 1958 in Vienna) is an Aus- Final Project trian social democratic politician. She is a member of the Eu- ropean Parliament since 2009. Within the Parliament, she is a Conference member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Develop- ment as well as the Committee on Budgetary Control. Additio- nally, Karin Kadenbach became Vice-President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup in July 2015. Furthermore Karin Kadenbach is Vice-President PRESENTERS of the Delegation for relations with Japan and substitute member in the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula. Prior to joining the European Parliament in 2009, Ms. Kadenbach served for sixteen years as a municipal councilor in her municipality Großmugl and was a member of the Lower Austrian Regional Assembly for seven years. From 2007 to 2008, she was a regional minister holding the port- folio «health and nature protection» in the Lower Austrian Regional Assembly. After graduating in Advertising and Marketing (university course) at Vienna University of Economics and Business, she worked at J. W. Thompson advertising agency. Karin Kadenbach lives in Großmugl and Brussels and is a mother of five children. DR SUBHASH POKHREL EQUIPT Project Coordinator and WP4 co-chair Dr Subash Pokhrel is Divisional Director for Health Sciences at Brunel University London. He led the development of the NICE Return on Investment (ROI) tool in the UK. He is featured in the 2013 (Feb) issue of International Innovation on his lea- dership to successfully pool together international expertise to conduct ROI research in tobacco control. He has a PhD in health economics (summa cum laude) from Heidelberg Univer- sity, Germany and has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals, covering a wide range of health systems and healthcare services. His publication profile covers several public health areas including tobacco use, physical activity, breastfeeding, government welfare programmes and alcohol misuse. PROF. SilviA EVERS EQUIPT WP1 chair and country-lead Silvia Evers is Professor of Public Health Technology Assessment at Maastricht University, the Netherlands in the Department of Health Services Research of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science. Next to that, she is working at the Trimbos Institute, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Centre of Economic Evaluation. At the Maastricht University, she is pro- gramme leader of the programme ‘Creating value-based health care’ and profile coor- dinator of the HTA-trace of the Health Sciences Research Master at Caphri, Research School of Public Health and Primary Care. Currently, she has been the cosupervisor of more than 20 Ph.D. students and more than 100 Bachelor and Master Students. She has co-authored up to 200 (peer-reviewed) publications (Google’s H-index 33). Her chief current research efforts are directed towards the methodology of economic evaluation of (preventive) interventions, meta-analysis, transferability and quality of life analysis. She has a special interest in the application of these methods, looking at innovative interventions in the field of public health. She is editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care (see www.ijic.org), the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, and associate editor of BMC Health Services Research. 6- EQUIPT PROF. ANNETTE BOAZ Professor Annette Boaz is a social scientist who worked at the Final Project universities of Oxford, Warwick, Queen Mary, University of London and Kings College London before coming to the joint Conference Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Kingston Uni- versity and St George’s University of London in 2013. She has spent more than 20 years exploring the relationship between research policy and practice in the UK and internationally. She has conducted research for a range of funders including the UK Cabinet Office, the PRESENTERS NIHR and the European Union. She also spent a year at the Department of Health working in the Policy Research Programme. She worked for a number of years in the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Centre for Evidence Based Policy. She continues to conduct research in this field and is one of the ma- naging editors of the international journal Evidence & Policy. The journal has been building an international reputation, and although only 10 years old it has already achieved an ISI impact factor. She has an interest in implementation and improve- ment and has completed an evaluation of experienced based co-design of services in two health care pathways. She supports a number of national initiatives aimed at increasing capacity for research use including the National Institute for Health Research Knowledge Mobilization Fellowship scheme, the ESRC Impact Prize and the UK Implementation Network. Current projects include: The Health Foundation funded Patient and Family Centred Care (PFCC) in end of life care project.
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