Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the WHO FCTC Secretariat, is a medical doctor, with a master’s degree in Policies to Prevent Addictions in Children and Adolescents from the Latin American Center of Human Economy (CLAEH). As the Head of Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), she directs support of the Parties to the Convention and to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, enabling them to implement their obligations under the treaties. She also supervises arrangements for the Convention’s Conference of the Parties (COP), the Protocol’s Meeting of the Parties (MOP) and translates the decisions taken into programme activities.
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, one fact has never been more evident – our world, our planet and our lives are inextricably interconnected.
