Environmental Health & Tobacco Control

Beginning my career in the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative, I was able to see firsthand the weaknesses of human rights in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Applying the human right to health as a means to reframe global tobacco control policy, I examined tobacco cessation and harm reduction policy, and this work in tobacco control provided a foundation to address the health harms of household air pollution, supporting environmental health. This work on environmental health has led to our ongoing work to implement the human right to a healthy environment as a basis to respond to the planetary health threat of climate change.