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Teema: Request for nomination of a national focal point to collect data
for the ninth edition of the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic
(GTCR)
Dear Ms Ohov,
We are pleased to enclose a letter from Dr Nino Berdzuli, Director,
Division of Country Health Programmes regarding the Ninth edition of the
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic.
We would appreciate having your feedback by 5 May 2022.
Thank you so much for your kind support and cooperation.
Best regards,
Tobacco Control Programme
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTÉ
WELTGESUNDHEITSORGANISATION Date: 6 April 2022
ВСЕМИРНАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЯ
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE Ms Elen Ohov
BUREAU RÉGIONAL DE L’EUROPE
REGIONALBÜRO FÜR EUROPA
Adviser
ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЕ БЮРО European Union Affairs and International Co-
Head office:
operation Department
UN City, Marmorvej 51, Ministry of Social Affairs
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Suur-Ameerika 1
Tel.: +45 45 33 70 00; Fax: +45 45 33 70 01
Email:
[email protected] 10122 Tallinn
Website: http://www.euro.who.int Estonia
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Dear Ms Ohov,
The ninth edition of the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic
The World Health Organization is committed to providing Member States with accurate, relevant and
internationally comparable information that they can use to guide the development of health policy
and to evaluate the impact of those policy measures.
For this purpose, WHO has produced since 2008 the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic,
which tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and interventions to combat it. The eighth edition of
the report was launched by WHO in July 2021. We have already started the collection of data for the
ninth edition, which is expected to be published in mid-2023.
The most important part of this report is the correct reflection of country data. To ensure the
correctness of the data, we would like to provide Member States with an opportunity to share with us
their most up-to-date policy information and most recent data on adult tobacco use. Once the data
collection and analysis phase is complete, we would share our analysis with ministries of health in the
respective Member States for data validation and sign-off before the report is published. The Regional
Office has been tasked to execute this global survey in accordance with the current WHO global
policy on the use of surveys for data collection.
The person who helped us with the compilation of your country data for the previous edition of the
report was Ms Aive Telling, and this support was highly valuable to the outcome. We would
appreciate if you could confirm that it would be appropriate for us to contact Ms Telling again for the
data collection for the next report. In case you would like to nominate a new person to work with us in
this endeavour, kindly provide his/her name, email address and telephone number, and we will contact
the person with more details concerning the data-collection process.
Ms Elizaveta Lebedeva, consultant, Tobacco Control, is responsible for day-to-day management of
this activity under the overall supervision of Ms Angela Ciobanu, technical officer, Tobacco Control.
It would be highly appreciated if you could provide Ms Lebedeva with the required information by 5
May 2022 at email:
[email protected].
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
UN City, Marmorvej 51 Tel.: +45 45 33 70 00 Email:
[email protected]
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax: +45 45 33 70 01 Website: http://www.euro.who.int
Denmark
Thank you in advance for your valuable cooperation on this report, which is of high priority to the
World Health Organization.
Sincerely yours,
for
Dr Nino Berdzuli
Director
Division of Country Health Programmes
Copy for information to:
Ms Triin Uusberg, Head, European and International Coordination Department, Ministry of Social Affairs,
Suur-Ameerika 1, 10129 Tallinn, Estonia
H.E. Ms Katrin Saarsalu-Layachi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative,
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Estonia to the United Nations Office and other international
organizations in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28A, CH-1209 Genève, Switzerland
H.E. Mr William Mart Laanemäe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of
Estonia, Frederiksgade 19, 4th floor, 1265 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Ms Kristina Köhler, Liaison Officer, WHO Country Office, Estonia, Paldiski Road 81, 10617 Tallinn, Estonia
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