Smokeless tobacco & shisha – feedback from focus groups
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Author(s)
Leena Sankla and Dr Asiya Kaiser.
Presenter(s)
Leena Sankla Project Director, Solutions 4 Health Ltd
Dr Asiya Kaiser Project Manager, Solutions 4 Health Ltd
Biography
Leena Sankla MFPH, FRSPH has overall responsibility for a number of PbR based smoking cessation projects, being rolled out nationally. Her particular expertise is in reaching hard to reach groups, specifically BME groups, socially deprived groups and routine and manual workers. She has a long-standing knowledge of smoking and tobacco control, including shisha use and tobacco chewing and delivers these courses to healthcare professionals and trading standards officers.
She has worked closely with ITV and BBC on a number of health watch programmes and has lectured for the WHO at St Georges Hospital, International Centre for Drug Policy and works closely with the Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC), at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Leena is also a Master Trainer on Chronic Disease Management from Stanford University
