Advances in efforts to curb tobacco use is the topic of this year's Thomas Parran Lecture to be presented by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health at 3 p.m. Monday at the University Club in Oakland.

Speaking at the lecture, free to the public, will be Kenneth Warner, Ph.D., dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and founding director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network. The talk, "Tobacco Control: Looking Back, Looking Forward," will focus on the successes of tobacco control over the past 50 years in the United States and other developed nations and what lies ahead. For more information, call 412-383-8849. A live webcast of Dr. Warner's lecture will be at www.publichealth.pitt.edu/parranlecture2009.

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