American Cancer Society at Closing Ceremony on Day Five of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH)

(This is a first-hand account of the closing ceremony of the conference held on Day Five, March 12, from Tom Glynn, PhD, Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer Control, American Cancer Society. Please see photos of the ceremony below.

Note: Tom Glynn, PhD, served as a member of the seven-person Conference Declarations Committee.)

The 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH) closed today in Mumbai with an elaborate, music-filled ceremony that celebrated the success of the conference. During the ceremony, there was an announcement that the 15th WCTOH has been awarded to Singapore in 2012, under the auspices of the Singapore Health Promotion Board, the Singapore Cancer Society, and the Singapore Heart Association. Youth activities of the conference were highlighted. Then the Conference Declarations were announced by the Conference Declarations Committee. The Declarations document, the result of consultations with hundreds of conference participants that becomes the legacy of the conference, includes 11 recommendations for global tobacco control in the next few years.

After these announcements were made, Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, a 2009 Luther L. Terry Awardee, was selected by the conference organizers to deliver the closing address. He thanked several individuals and organizations for their support of the Mumbai conference, and had an especially warm thank you for Dr. Seffrin and the American Cancer Society, singling us out for our long-time support of the WCTOH system, and the Mumbai conference in particular. He then delivered, without notes, an eloquent address, reflecting on his roles as a citizen of the tobacco control community, as an Indian, and as a global citizen, and what having the conference in Mumbai meant to him in each of those roles. American Cancer Society grantee and Conference President Dr. Prakash Gupta then declared the conference closed until it meets again in Singapore in three years.

 

Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, a 2009 Luther L. Terry Awardee, delivers the closing address.

 

A backdrop behind the stage at the closing ceremony.

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