Ep 14: What really happens at WHO FCTC COP and MOP?

About this episode

Welcome to season two of Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco, the podcast where we explore the tactics used by the tobacco industry as it pursues profit over health. Leslie Rae Ferat and Dr Allen Gallagher join Louis in episode 6 to speak in-depth on the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s Conference of the Parties (COP) and Meeting of the Parties (MOP). They discuss what actually happens at these international treaty-signing events, the role played by civil society, how Big Tobacco tries to interfere and what might be on the agenda at the next COP and MOP in November 2025. Leslie Rae Ferat is Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (formerly Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control), a global network of civil society organisations working towards a world-free from the health, social and economic consequences of tobacco and tobacco use. She is currently President of the NCD Alliance, a member of the WCTC Content Committee and the WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs. Dr Allen Gallagher is Co-Director of the Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) at the University of Bath. While interested in various issues related to tobacco c