Regional meeting on tobacco policy acceleration and data-to-action in the WHO South-East Asia Region: May 2023

Overview

1. Support countries to identify the barriers and challenges that currently prevent the adoption of effective tobacco control policies in the absence of leveraging data to action

 2. Empower countries to use the available data to advocate for change in their contexts by demonstrating the expected tobacco use reduction outcomes by overcoming the identified challenges and barriers

 3. Learn from best practices from other countries and regions to advance remaining MPOWER policies that are not at the highest level

 4. Develop detailed country action plans to close specific gaps over the following year