Speakers: Barbara Zolty, MPH
Policy Officer, Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO

Topic: WHO update on new guideline developments for Articles 11 and 13 including marketing to youths and best practice for policy on smoking in films.

Barbara Zolty has been working as a Policy Officer with the Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland since May 2007.

As part of the Bloomberg Global Initiative team, much of her work is focused on helping countries develop and implement projects leading to substantial and sustainable improvements in tobacco control laws, regulations, policies and programmes.

Prior to that, Barbara worked from 1994-2001 as a technical officer in the Tobacco Control Program at WHO/HQ on a range of projects, particularly in the area of capacity building and developing policies on second-hand smoke. She received her Masters of Public Health (MPH) from Oregon State University. Barbara also has a degree in business and marketing from the University of Massachusetts.

For a number of years she operated her own business, providing coaching and communications training to a wide range of organizations and individuals from various sectors.