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Join The Union in Scotland this autumn for a Centennial Campaign fundraising adventure in some of northern Britain’s most beautiful countryside!

The coast-to-coast John Muir Way takes in 215 km of stunning scenery and important historical buildings, including the…

The Union’s Latin America Region members, supported by The Union Office in Peru, are preparing to gather for their 17th region conference on Friday, 22 August from 08:00 to 019:00, at the Hotel Las Dunas in Ica, Peru. The theme of the conference will be an Integrated…

The Union / World Diabetes Foundation

The report, The Looming Co-epidemic of TB-Diabetes: A Call to Action, synthesises evidence from the medical and scientific literature, promotes an international policy framework for action and lays out a new research…

Registration is now open for 45th World Conference on Lung Health, the world’s largest gathering of clinicians and public health workers, health programme managers, researchers and advocates working to end suffering caused by lung disease. With a record number of abstract…

The Union is pleased to announce the recent appointment of three new members to its leadership team: Dr Adam M Karpati, Senior Vice President for Public Health Impact (based in New York); Dr Ajay Kumar, Deputy Director, Department of Research (based in Bangalore); and Mr…

The Union is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief (EIC) to lead its open-access journal  Public Health Action when the mandate of the founding EIC, Prof Donald A Enarson ends on 15 September. Applicants for the five-year term are expected to be knowledgeable about the broad…

The 19th Annual Conference of The Union North America Region will be held on 26-28 February 2015 at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia. Considered as the premier tuberculosis conference in North America, this meeting is attended by…

31 May 2014 saw Union offices and grantees across the globe recognising and celebrating recent developments in tobacco control. Many also used the day to raise public awareness of the dangers of tobacco use and to build political support for the legislation and enforcement…

After last month’s World Health Assembly adopted a new global strategy and targets for global tuberculosis prevention, care and control, the directors of national TB and HIV/AIDS programmes across Latin America convened in Mexico City at a summit organised by the regional…

Introducing a new medicine is a huge and complex task, especially when the medicine is being distributed in weak health systems and improper use can cause drug resistance. As I lay out in a commentary piece published today by the health policy journal Health Affairs, it will…

The government of Ireland took an important step toward protecting public health in the country, with yesterday's publishing of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014. If passed into law, the bill will require tobacco cigarettes to be sold in generic…

The first meeting of the Core Group (CG) of the Global Drug-resistant TB Initiative (GDI) took place in Geneva on 1-2 May 2014.  Dr Chen-Yuan Chiang represents The Union and Dr Raimond Armengol, also from The Union, represents the Latin America regional Green Light…

Online submission of abstracts is now open for the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health to be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE from 17-21 March 2015. Organisers are particularly interested in receiving abstracts on the theme "Tobacco and Non-Communicable Diseases", as well…

Just weeks before Pakistan will decide its next national budget, a new report published by The Union highlights the impact tobacco tax reform could have on both public health – and the public purse.

The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Taxation in Pakistan found that…

A guide published by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) promoting best-practice in assessing compliance with smoke-free laws has been launched at events in seven countries to mark World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2014. 

The guide…

Of all the words that will be written and spoken on World No Tobacco Day, perhaps none will prove as influential and lasting as several thousand that appeared four weeks ago in The Lancet. 

In what I believe is a landmark work, an international team led by Prof.…

The Union, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

This guide promotes best practice for conducting studies of…

In conjunction with World No Tobacco Day (31 May), Chile’s Ministry of Health announced the expansion of its smoke-free policy for health care facilities. A smoking ban for hospitals and health care facilities went into effect in March 2013, but designated open areas…

On 19 May, the World Health Assembly approved the World Health Organisation’s new strategy for addressing the global TB epidemic after 2015. The strategy provides ambitious new direction for eliminating tuberculosis as a global epidemic by 2035, with important milestones to…

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, CTFK, The Union

The guide helps advocates working to strengthen implementation of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS)  laws by presenting step-by-step information about how to plan and conduct…

In an article published in The Lancet Global Health today, The Union joins in calling on the European Union to support operational research to improve health programmes in low- and middle-income countries. Below co-author Prof. Anthony D. Harries, Director of The Union’s…

A record number of abstracts related to civil society’s contributions to public health have been submitted for this year’s 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health, which will focus on the theme “Community-driven solutions for the next generation”.  The study topics…