Event Title
Panel 9a Setting Up for Success: Supporting Synar Inspections: Introducing Counter Tools’ “Point of sale toolkit” for data-driven public health impact
Location
Fitzgerald A
Start Date
11-5-2017 2:15 PM
End Date
11-5-2017 3:14 PM
Description
This session will introduce the federal Synar program (random, unannounced inspections of retail tobacco outlets), implementation of the program in Maryland, and ongoing efforts to reduce youth access to tobacco. In addition, participants will hear about the Point of Sale Toolkit (“POST”) software application that will be launched in Maryland at a kick-off training in June 2017. POST is the newest application offered by Counter Tools, a nonprofit organization with a mission to use community-engaged data to advance place-based public health. With POST, local and state level tobacco prevention and control practitioners and their teams can collect, manage, analyze and visualize tobacco retail outlet data in reports, maps and infographics. Come get a preview of POST!
Panel 9a Setting Up for Success: Supporting Synar Inspections: Introducing Counter Tools’ “Point of sale toolkit” for data-driven public health impact
Fitzgerald A
This session will introduce the federal Synar program (random, unannounced inspections of retail tobacco outlets), implementation of the program in Maryland, and ongoing efforts to reduce youth access to tobacco. In addition, participants will hear about the Point of Sale Toolkit (“POST”) software application that will be launched in Maryland at a kick-off training in June 2017. POST is the newest application offered by Counter Tools, a nonprofit organization with a mission to use community-engaged data to advance place-based public health. With POST, local and state level tobacco prevention and control practitioners and their teams can collect, manage, analyze and visualize tobacco retail outlet data in reports, maps and infographics. Come get a preview of POST!