DUBLIN, IRELAND
23 - 25 JUNE 2025
| GENERAL GUIDELINES | |
| Date | Monday, 23 June 2025 (pre-conference). |
| Location | Workshops will be held at the Convention Centre Dublin. The room of the session will be allocated by the Conference Secretariat based on the number of attendees indicated and on a first-come first-served basis. |
| Room Layout | The available room layout is cabaret. |
| Description | Workshops should be structured around a specific theme and must have a defined expected output, such as a report, action plan, or roadmap. They should incorporate active learning and participation, including interactive presentation formats like videos. The session agenda should allow ample time for discussion and engagement through interactive activities. |
| Duration | The workshops last 3 hours. |
| Coordinators and Chairs | Workshops should have at least one and up to two coordinators. They will be responsible for communicating with speakers, promptly liaising with the Secretariat about changes and facilitating or co-facilitating the workshop. Submitters will also have the option to include up to two session chairs. In this case and for diversity purposes, it is important that the coordinators of the session do not chair sessions they coordinate. |
| Speakers | It is recommended to have only 1 speaker per presentation with a maximum of 5 presentations allowed per session. |
| Delegate Attendance | All registered delegates can sign-up and attend a Workshop at no extra cost. |
| Organiser Attendance | The workshop organiser should cover the costs of travel, accommodation, and registration of the session’s speakers and chairpersons. |
| Payment | Full payment should be made within four weeks of session approval. If no payment is received, the slot will be allocated to another submitter. |
| TECHNICAL GUIDELINES | |
| Submission | The portal for workshops submission opens on 3 March and will close on 31 March 2025. The accepted sessions will be notified by 14 April 2025. |
| Session Description | Description sub-heading should include workshop objectives, expected outputs/outcomes, and relevance of the topic for the target audience in 300 words or less. |
| Biographies | A biography of no more than 100 words (minimum 50 words) must be submitted for each proposed speaker. |
| Review | Workshops are assessed based on objectives, relevance, presentation, originality, utilisation of evidence, geographical impact, and country representation. |
| Enter the active email addresses of the coordinators and speakers as all related submission communications will be made via email. | |
| WORKSHOPS RATES | ||
| Capacity | Duration | Price |
| Monday 23rd June from 9:00-12:00 | 3 hours | € 4,000 |
| Rates include | – Room with basic sound and audio-visual equipment; – Exclusive room access. | |
| Cancellation Policy | All cancellations must be made in writing to the Conference Secretariat according to the following conditions: · Until Sunday, 11 May 2025: cancellation fees will amount to 50% of the total cost. · From Monday, 12 May 2025: no refund is possible. | |
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, 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.
