| Time |
Topic |
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Session 1: Mitigating tobacco harm |
Comprehensive approaches to mitigating harm from tobacco |
| 09:15–10:15
(20 min x3) |
Plenary 1: Unmet Challenges in Advancing Tobacco Harm Reduction in Southeast Asia: Barriers & Solutions
- Professor Tikki Pangestu, Former Director, Research Policy &Cooperation, WHO, Switzerland
Plenary 2: A cardiometabolic physician’s perspective: The health effects of switching from combustible tobacco to NTPs
- Professor Dr Rohan Sequeira, Cardiometabolic Physician, The Revival Clinic, India
Plenary 3: Lessons to be learned from comparing the different regulatory models in Australia and New Zealand
- Professor Marewa Glover, Director, Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, New Zealand
|
| 10:15–10:30 (15 min) |
TEA BREAK |
| 10:30–10:50 (20 min) |
Plenary 4: The latest status of tobacco control in Malaysia, consequences of such an approach and the way forward
- Professor Dr Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh, Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia
|
| 10:50–11:50
(60 min) |
Tobacco panel discussion: Challenges and solutions
Panellists:
- Professor Tikki Pangestu, Former Director, Research Policy &Cooperation, WHO Switzerland
- Professor Dr Rohan Sequeira, Cardiometabolic Physician, The Revival Clinic, India
- Professor Marewa Glover, Director, Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, New Zealand
- Dr Hiroya Kumamaru, Vice Director, AOI Universal Hospital, Japan
- Professor KJ Chuang, Professor of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
- Tarmizi Anuwar, Malaysia Country Associate, Consumer Choice Center
- Assistant Professor Jay Jazul, Pharmacist, Research Center for Social Sciences and Education, University of Santo Thomas, Philippines
Moderator:
- Professor Dr Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh, Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia
|
|
Session 2: NCDs |
Innovative Strategies for NCD Management: Community and Workforce Perspectives |
| 11:50–12:30
(20 min x2) |
Plenary 1: NCD National Strategies and Challenges: Future Approaches and Strategies
- Dr Muhammad Fairuz Abdullah, Head of Health Advocacy Department, ProtectHealth Corporation Sdn Bhd
Plenary 2: Nutrition and food security: How public policy can improve the status quo to mitigate NCDs
- Professor Dr Norhasmah Sulaiman, Professor of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia
|
| 12:30–13:30
(60 min) |
Innovative strategies for NCD management forum – Challenges and solutions
Panellists:
- Dr Muhammad Fairuz Abdullah, Head of Health Advocacy Department, ProtectHealth Corporation Sdn Bhd
- Professor Dr Norhasmah Sulaiman, Professor of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia
- Associate Professor Dr Imran Ahmad, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains
- Associate Professor Dr Rusdi Abdul Rashid, Department of Psychological Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
Moderator:
- Associate Professor Dr Geeta Appannah, Associate Professor of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia
|
| 13:30 - 14:30 (60 mins) |
LUNCH |
|
Session 3: Drug reforms |
Rethinking Drugs, Addictions and Criminalisation: A Call for Reform |
| 14:30–15:30
(20 min x3) |
Plenary 1: Social and structural determinants in harm reduction
- Dr Nur Afiqah Mohd Salleh, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
Plenary 2: Latest options in medical-assisted treatment in drug use and its application in Malaysia
- Associate Professor Dr Sivakumar Thurairajasingam, Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Head of Monash Clinical School, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
Plenary 3: Far-reaching implications of drug abuse among adolescents in Malaysia
- Adjunct Professor Dr Prem Kumar Shanmugam, Founder and CEO, Solace Asia
|
| 15:30–15:40 (10 mins) |
TEA BREAK |
| 15:40–16:40
(60 min) |
Rethinking drugs, addictions and criminalisation forum – Challenges and solutions
Panellists:
- Dr Nur Afiqah Mohd Salleh, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
- Associate Professor Dr Sivakumar Thurairajasingam, Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Head of Monash Clinical School, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
- Adjunct Professor Dr Prem Kumar Shanmugam, Founder and CEO, Solace Asia
- Professor Mohamad Hussain Habil, Professor of Psychiatry, Malaysian AlliedHealth Sciences Academy (MAHSA) University
Moderator:
- Dr Darshan Singh, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Drug Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia
|
| 16:40–16:50
(10 min) |
Panel discussion recap and the way forward
- Professor Mohamad Hussain Habil, Professor of Psychiatry, Malaysian Allied Health Sciences Academy (MAHSA) University
|
| 16:50 - 17:10
(20 min) |
Consolidation of concepts and proposals
- Professor Dr Asrul Akmal Shafie, Director of the Institutional Planning & Strategic Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
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