Webinar title: Health Systems and Tobacco Cessation: Scaling up Interventions for Impact
Discussing how healthcare workers and public health advocates can champion for the introduction of tobacco cessation and allied services from the primary healthcare level and why this is necessary.
Speaker: Dr. Leon Ogoti
Dr Leon Ogoti is public health advocate, with undergraduate training in Medicine and postgraduate training in Public Health and Psychiatry. He has additional training in tobacco control and industry interference. He applies his expertise through the National Tobacco Control Board in Kenya, where he serves and is currently furthering his studies in medical ethics, with a particular interest in the principles of justice and autonomy.
Dr Ogoti’s work explores how these ethical principles intersect with mental illness and substance use. Passionate about advancing ethical, equitable care in public health, and he is especially interested in how these ideas shape tobacco cessation strategies.
Dr Ogoti’s work explores how these ethical principles intersect with mental illness and substance use. Passionate about advancing ethical, equitable care in public health, and he is especially interested in how these ideas shape tobacco cessation strategies.
Objectives:
- Emphasize the burden of tobacco and nicotine use
- Highlight the unmet need for cessation services
- Demonstrate the gaps in cessation services
- Identify the barriers, opportunities and challenges in tobacco cessation
Date: Thursday, 29th of May 2025
Time: 3.00 PM CAT
Duration: 60 min
CPD Points: 1