Webinar for the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region (SEARO)
TQS (Tobacco Questions for Surveys) is a subset of Key Questions from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) and Global Youth Tobacco Survey (TQS-Youth). These questions can be included in tobacco use surveys as per survey’s needs and capacities at the country level. The intent is to standardize the tobacco questions in country’s national health surveys for uniformity, comparability, and measurements of global trends of tobacco epidemic.
The CDC Foundation, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, is organizing a Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) and Tobacco Questions for Surveys of Youth (TQS-Youth) Regional Webinar for SEAR countries.
The duration of the webinar was 90-minutes. It was conducted via virtual mode using Zoom , as per below timings:
a. 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm EDT (EDT, Atlanta, Georgia, USA) on 19 October 2021; and
b. 7:00 am - 8:30 am IST (IST, Uttar Pradesh, India) on 20 October 2021.
Objectives of the Webinar:
- To provide an introduction of TQS and TQS-Youth booklets.
- To provide an overview of how tobacco questions can be integrated into adult and youth surveys and what technical assistance may be available for implementation.
- To discuss how data from the TQS and TQS-Youth questions can be used to help inform tobacco control and prevention strategies globally.
Target Audience:
Tobacco control representatives and surveillance focal points from the WHO SEARO region. The invitees included Tobacco control and surveillance focal point from the Ministry of Health, representative from the Department of Statistics, representative from the survey implementing agency, and representative from the civil society organizations, supporting tobacco control and surveillance activities at the country level.
Partner organizations :
The webinar was conducted in partnership with US CDC and CDC Foundation.
Language:
The webinar was conducted in English.
Agenda
The agenda of the webinar is given below:
| 19 October 2021 (USA) | 20 October 2021 | (SEAR) | |
| 21:30-21:40 EDT | 07:00-07:10 IST | Welcome and Opening | CDC SEARO CDC Foundation |
| 21:40-21:55 EDT | 07:10-07:25 IST | Presentation: World Health Organization (WHO) Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2020 | TFI/SEARO |
| 21:55-22:05 EDT | 07:25-07:35 IST | Presentation: Addressing Challenges for Global Tobacco Control Surveillance | CDC |
| 22:05-22:30 EDT | 07:35-08:00 IST | Presentation: TQS and TQS-Youth Introduction and Overview | CDC |
| 22:30-22:50 EDT | 08:00-08:20 IST | Discussion: Success Stories of TQS Integration from the WHO SEARO region | SEAR countries |
| 22:50-23:00 EDT | 08:20-08:30 IST | Questions & Answers |
List of participants
Total 53 participants from seven SEAR countries, observers, WCO TFI focal points and representatives of CDC and CDC Foundation attended the webinar.