It’s About a Billion Lives Annual Symposium

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The next It’s About a Billion Lives Symposium will take place on April 23, 2027. 

More details to follow. 

2026 Billion Lives Recordings

• Complete Symposium

• Keynote: Advancing Health Equity Together Through Communication Science For Youth, With Youth, and By Youth Andy Tan, PhD, MPH, MBA, MBBS

• Meeting People Where They Are: Reducing Tobacco Use and Exposure in Permanent Supportive Housing 
  Mark Hawes, PhD, MSW

• Putting Out Cigarettes with Code: Can Artificial Intelligence Level the Playing Field? 
  Jason Satterfield, PhD

• Where There’s Smoke: Youth Perspectives on Tobacco and Health Equity

• MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award Winner- Vuong Do, PhD

• MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award Winner- Adali Martinez, MD, MPH

• MERC Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award Winner- Dan Kabella, PhD

   

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Watch the 2025 symposium and past years’ symposia.