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Quarterly Update (September 2020)





Quarterly Update
2020 Issue 2
Research Webinar

Tobacconomics is hosting a webinar featuring its latest release: A Toolkit on Measuring Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. The authors will provide a step-by-step guide to using the methods of the toolkit as well as other important resources in understanding how to measure and evaluate studies on illicit trade.
 
Join us on:
October 7, 2020
9 AM EDT / 1 PM UTC
 
Featured Research
Tobacconomics Research:
A Toolkit on Measuring Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products
This Toolkit was created by Tobacconomics and the American Cancer Society. It aims to guide researchers in carrying out research on the scope and nature of the illicit tobacco trade. The Toolkit presents both primary and secondary research methods. Click here to read the Toolkit. 
Case Studies in Illicit Tobacco Trade
Also check out these Case Studies exploring successes and challenges in increasing tobacco taxes while addressing illicit trade from four countries: Colombia, the Philippines, South Africa, and United Kingdom.

Missed the Tobacconomics Policy Brief and White Paper on Illicit Trade? Access them here.
Think Tank Partners Research:
The Impact of Tobacco Use on Household Consumption Patterns in Pakistan
This Report is written by Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) in Pakistan. The Report estimates the impact that tobacco use has on household spending in Pakistan and finds that lower-income households spend more of their budget on tobacco than on health or education. The research further finds that if tobacco spending in lower-income households decreases by 50 percent, spending on education and food increases. Therefore, decreasing tobacco use should be a key part of poverty reduction policies and programs.  Click here to read the Report.

Click here to read the accompanying Policy Brief.

New Team Member

Spotlights!
Dr. Jeffrey Drope is a Research Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jeff’s work focuses on the nexus of public health and economic policymaking, especially taxation, trade and investment. His tobacco control work focuses particularly on tobacco taxation, illicit trade of tobacco products, the science and regulation of novel products, tobacco’s economic costs, and the economics of tobacco farming. He is the author/editor of three books and more than 100 research articles, chapters and reports on the political economy of non-communicable disease. From 2012 to 2020, Jeff was Scientific Vice President of Economic and Health Policy Research at the American Cancer Society and was previously Professor in Residence of Global Health at Marquette University.
Together with colleagues, he works globally to provide technical support and counsel on these issues to governments, intergovernmental organizations, research institutions and civil society organizations. Welcome, Jeff!
Dr. Michal Stoklosa is a Senior Economist in the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before joining the UIC, he was a Principal Scientist in the Economic and Health Policy Research program at the American Cancer Society. He conducts research and trains policymakers and health advocates in issues around tobacco taxation and illicit trade in tobacco products. Other areas of his research include the effects of tax policies on use of novel tobacco products, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and co-authored health policy reports and book chapters, including The Tobacco Atlas.
Michal received a MA in Managerial Economics from University of Warsaw, a MA in Economics from Georgia State University, and a PhD in Economics from University of Cape Town. Welcome, Michal!
About Us 

Based in the Health Policy Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the Tobacconomics team conducts economic research to shape global tobacco control policies, and we also partner with economic policy think tanks in low- and middle-income countries to build the local evidence base for more effective tobacco tax systems. UIC is a partner of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.
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