Föreläsningar och seminarier Lifestyle4Health: Tobacco Cessation on Prescription: Perspectives from Sweden and The Netherlands

Speakers: Titia Bal and Tanja Tomson 

About the speakers

Titia Bal is a second-year healthcare management master’s student at VU Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Before starting this Master’s, she completed a Bachelor’s in Science and Innovation Management at Utrecht University and participated in the Geosciences Honours College. Her thesis focused on boundary setting for reimbursing medications in the Netherlands. In the first year of her Master’s, she conducted five months of research at Amsterdam University Medical Centre (UMC) on the digitalisation of healthcare and employees’ perspectives on this development, focusing on digital inequality. She also worked at Amsterdam UMC for two years outside her studies as a backoffice student employee (admin tasks) at the pediatric outpatient clinic. She works part-time as a working student in healthcare IT in the Quality Team at a large Dutch company that develops electronic patient records alongside her studies. Currently, she has started her Erasmus internship at the Prevention - Policy & Practice research group, department of learning, informatics, management and ethics (LIME) at Karolinska Institutet.

Dr. Tanja Tomson is an Associate professor at the Department of learning, informatics, management and ethics, (LIME), Karolinska Institutet (KI). Currently head of unit and the Prevention - Policy & Practice research group. Her research interest include health promotion, prevention, leadership, and mentoring. Her research includes studies in Lao PDR on tobacco control policy and she is the Swedish Principal Investigator (PI) coordinating the EU project in the framework of the “Europe Against Cancer”. She is also the Swedish PI/partner in EU funded projects:  CrowdHEALTH (http://www.crowdhealth.eu/)  that includes 17 other institutions (universities, and other authorities as well as industry), as well as the iHELP (https://ihelp-project.eu/) including 14 partners. She has participated in a collaborative health system research project in Stockholm region resulting in a cluster-RCT in Stockholm PHC "Motivation 2 Quit" M2Q http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN11498135.

As previous programme director of Public Health Sciences and Global Health programmes at KI established strategic partnerships between KI and Schools of Public Health in Europe, China and US. As former director at Centre for Clinical Education involved in continuous professional development including supervision and clinical training at the Stockholm Region.

Seminar description

In this seminar the speakers will present the upcoming work (currently in the planning phase) focusing on the following research questions: How do the perspectives of caregivers at Liljeholmen Primary Healthcare Centre in the Stockholm Region and Dutch general practitioners (GPs) on Tobacco Cessation on Prescription (TCP) compare, and how can these insights inform its potential implementation and broader applicability in primary care? 

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