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January 26: CSF CTCRE's "It's About a Billion Lives" Symposium.

Thursday, January 19, 2023  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
The first in-person "It's About a Billion Lives" Symposium since 2020 is taking place on Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 8am-12pm at UCSF’s Robertson Auditorium, 1675 Owens Street in San Francisco. The list of speakers is now available online. Please email Jonathan Leff to RSVP to attend the Symposium in person (Jonathan.Leff@ucsf.edu).
 
Keynote Panel: 20 Years of the Industry Documents: Past, Present and Future: 
•  Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Retired) 
•  Micah Berman, JD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Law, Ohio State University’s College of Public Health and Michael E. Moritz College of Law 
•  Mignonne C. Guy, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of African American Studies 
•  Kate Tasker, MLIS, UCSF Industry Documents Library Managing Archivist 
•  Moderator: Dr. Cheryl Healton, Professor of Professor of Public Health Policy and Management and Founding Dean, NYU School of Global Public Health 
 
Presentations by Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars: 
•  "Industry Influence Over Scientific Information on Breast Cancer: Exploring the UCSF Industry Documents Library,"  Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBA, Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences 
•  "Tobacco Cessation in Substance Use Treatment: Research & Policy Efforts to Reduce Tobacco- Related Health Inequity,"  Caravella McCuistian, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Psychiatry 
•  "Unequal risk for tobacco-related stroke in Black adults,"  Jelena Mustra Rakic, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education 
•  "Tobacco Industry documents: how looking through the keyhole contributed to tobacco control in Brazil,"  Andre Luiz Oliveira da Silva, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education 
 
Closing Remarks, Chris Shaffer, MS, UCSF Assistant Vice Chancellor and University Librarian 
 
The Symposium will be streamed and recording posted to the website after the event. The streaming link will go out a couple of days prior to the Symposium.
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