This year the Open Society Institute, recognising the immense burden tobacco poses to democracies in transition of Central and Eastern Europe, decided to award fellows who could contribute to or strengthen tobacco control efforts in their countries. As member of the tobacco control fellows' group my project is aimed at reviewing and strengthening tobacco control policy development in Hungary.

The project aims not only at reviewing past Hungarian tobacco control policies, of changes of the tobacco control policy environment and at providing a critical analysis of  steps already taken, but also at outlining viable tobacco policy alternatives for the future, in the light of recommendations of the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted unanimously by the World Health Assembly on May 21, 2003. By the date of conclusion of the project -- March 2004 -- a policy paper on further tobacco control initiatives will be elaborated and submitted to the relevant department of the health ministry as well as to the parliamentary committee on health.

About my fellowship                                                                                              My institutional affiliations

My CV (PDF, 148 kB)                                                                                        Rapanui Advisory Ltd (Director)
My mentors                                                                                                       Health 21 Hungarian Foundation (CEO)
Project plan                                                                                                       Filter Online (Editor)
Reports

• Interim activity report (as of August 31, 2003)
• Interim research paper
• Research timetable
• Final activity report
• Final research paper
• Final policy paper