How can we minimise the adolescent uptake of vaping and related social and health harm?

26-27 April 2023

Convenors: Associate Professor Gary Chan, Dr Janni Leung, Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall FASSA, Associate Professor Coral Gartner and Dr Daniel Stjepanovic

The two-day workshop was structured around 4 sessions with 23 in person and 5 virtual participants from various disciplines from different geographical locations in Australia. The workshop began with opening addresses by A/Prof. Gary Chan and ASSA Fellow Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall who highlighted the importance of tackling the pressing public health issue of youth vaping, its uncertain long-term harm, and the challenges in regulating products to assist smokers to quit while preventing youth use.

The objectives of the workshop were:

• To create a dialogue between academics, clinicians, social workers, and policymakers working on e-cigarette interventions and policies in Australia
• To evaluate the evidence supporting different interventions that minimise e-cigarette-related harms to non-smoking young people, and the use of vaping for smoking cessation.
• To obtain perspectives from experienced mentors and new ideas from emerging leaders across diverse career stages, ages, genders, and cultural and linguistic backgrounds
• To advance scholarship in social science and public health by bringing together experts from a range of disciplines to join forces to design the best evidence-based and practical policy recommendations.