Partners

• Tobacco Free Florida, administered through the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Tobacco Free Florida, provides comprehensive tobacco education and prevention programs and strategies for society. Tobacco Free Florida’s mission is to protect the people of Florida from the dangers of tobacco.
• https://tobaccofreeflorida.com

• Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade is comprised of over 400 organizations who cohesively aim to combat increasing rates of chronic diseases in Miami-Dade County in order for residents to live longer, happier, and healthier lives by strengthening sustainable policies, systems, and environments. Ms. Soto from Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade will aid in disseminating our results and health risks related to hookah smoking to the community.
• https://www.healthymiamidade.org

• The Tobacco Free Workgroup intends to minimize tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke in Miami-Dade County through policy and systemic changes in collaboration with partner organizations.
• https://www.healthymiamidade.org/committees/tobacco-free-workgroup/

• SWAT is a youth organization to educate and arm Florida youth towards a tobacco free future.
• http://www.swatflorida.com

• The community outreach program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is committed to reduce the burden of cancer in Florida by educating and empowering patients, family, and the community. The Community Outreach Core at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center informs the community of available resources for cancer prevention and treatment and is committed to a tobacco free community, as tobacco is an important risk factor for cancer. Dr. Kobetz from the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center will assist in disseminating our results while simultaneously communicating the risks of hookah smoking and promoting health warning labels for hookah control in Florida.

• The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is an American organization that advocates for the reduction of tobacco consumption not only in the United Stated but around the world. Ms. Rodas, from Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids will aid in disseminating our results to community leaders and society, promote health warning labels for waterpipe control in Florida, and communicate the harmful effects of waterpipe smoking among youth.
• https://www.tobaccofreekids.org

• We will collaborate with the Dr. Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane, Tunisia’s health minister and professor of preventive medicine with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis to build on our work for project 3. Dr. Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane is also head of the Laboratory for Research on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and has worked with the World Health Organization. She is the founding member of several national and international medical societies, including the Tunisian League of Epidemiology.

 

• We will work alongside Dr. Rima Nakkash from the American University of Beirut for project 3. Dr. Nakkash is American University of Beirut’s Tobacco Control Research Group coordinator and chair of the university’s Tobacco Free Task Force, as well as co-director of WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Knowledge Hub for Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking. Her research interests in tobacco control include tobacco industry strategies in influencing tobacco control, evaluating tobacco control policies, and tobacco health warning labels amongst others.