Each year, The Global Network of Tobacco Free Healthcare Services is invited to co-organise the pre-conference to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health services international conference. HPH's main annual event provides a platform for hospitals and health services to learn and exchange knowledge and experiences in health promotion. The annual HPH Conference usually attracts a wide range of professionals from health practitioners to consultants, scientists, and politicians.
The 2020 Tobacco Free Pre-Conference has been POSTPONED due to the COVID-19 outbreak. More information will be available in the coming months in regard to the re-organization of the conference.
2019 Collaborative workshop - featuring a presentation from Lukasz Balwicki, MD, PHD on 'Designing comprehensive smoking cessation services'
2018 Collaborative workshop: 'Connecting national strategies with evidence-based practice'
The second part of the 2018 pre-conference featured a collaborative workshop on 'connecting national strategies with evidence-based practice' with the Emilia-Romagna HPH Network.
The keynote speaker was the eminent author of the transtheoretical model of change - Dr. Carlo DiClemente (Professor of Psychology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County) who spoke about connecting theory and practice in relation to addictive behaviours and tobacco cessation.