When farmers grow tobacco for lack of other options
By Raquel Gurgel | 6 July, 2023
Tobacco farmers Celírio and Salete Silva. Photo by João Roberto Ripper - CETAB/Fiocruz
In a Brazilian region marked by tobacco growing, farmers find alternatives
By Raquel Gurgel | 6 July, 2023
Graziela in the strawberries greenhouse. Photo by Raquel Torres - CETAB/Fiocruz
Instead of tobacco, organic food
McCabe Centre online legal training on law and noncommunicable diseases
The McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, which hosts the WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub on Legal Challenges, invites expressions of interest to attend the fourth edition of its online legal training course on law and noncommunicable diseases.
The course consists of seven online modules with accompanying live sessions, focusing on law and NCDs in the context of policy coherence between sustainable development, human rights, health, trade, and investment law. The course is aimed at government officials in low and middle-income countries but other applicants are considered on a case-by-case basis. The course is free of charge for countries eligible to receive Official Development Assistance and for Pacific Island Countries, and there are a mix of scholarship and self-funded places for participants from other countries.
Applications are now open and will close on 31 July, and the course will launch on 14 August.
For more information, please, see the attached information note.
The expression of interest form is available through this link.
If you have questions, please, contact iltp@mccabecentre.org.
Catalog of awareness-raising activities
The intervention catalog can be used to set up awareness-raising interventions in the field of tobacco control, and more specifically at the intervention identification stage.
This catalog is not exhaustive, but provides an overview of existing and evaluated interventions relating to Article 12 of the Convention, whether they are effective or not, enabling the selection and possible adaptation of one of them to the needs of the country wishing to implement an intervention.
Vacancy: Senior Research Officer, or a Chief Research Officer, or a Principal Research Officer
REEP currently has a vacancy for a Senior Research Officer (the research equivalent of Senior Lecturer), or a Chief Research Officer (the research equivalent of Associ
Vacancy: Junior Research Officer or Research Officer
REEP currently has a vacancy for a Junior Research Officer (the research equivalent of Junior Lecturer), or a Research Officer (the research equivalent of Lecturer).

