ETR Associates' Project Director Presents on Smoke-Free Tribal Casinos
ETR Associates' Narinder Dhaliwal, Project Director for the California Clear Air Project (CCAP), presented at the recent National Conference on Tobacco or Health on the Pros and Cons of Innovative Approaches to Smoke-Free Tribal Casinos. Tribally owned casinos are one of the last frontiers of secondhand smoke exposure for employees and patrons. Ms.Dhaliwal discussed how CCAP has been working with casino managers to move toward adopting and implementing voluntary smoke-free policies by conducting air monitoring and surveying the clientele via mail. Results were also presented from a study currently being conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and ETR Associates on barriers to implementing casino smoke-free policies,including culturally acceptable and business-sensitive methods.
About Narinder Dhaliwal
Narinder Dhaliwal, MS, is the Director of the California Clean Air Project (CCAP), funded by the California Department of Public Health. CCAP provides technical assistance, training and educational materials related to the prevention of secondhand smoke. Ms. Dhaliwal supervises staff and prepares educational materials, program reports and evaluation and training tools. She has established strong working relationships with tobacco control programs in many of California's counties, and was the recipient of the 2010 ETR Associates Mary Nelson Award, the 2009 Carol M. Russell Award for Leadership and Vision in Tobacco Control from the state of California, and the 2009 Roger Kunde Awardfor outstanding service and commitment to youth. Ms. Dhaliwal serves on the boards of several community-based organizations and is committed to community activism and health advocacy. She earned her master's degree in gerontology and her bachelor's degree in social sciences, both from Warwick University, England, U.K.
For more information about Ms.Dhaliwal's presentation or her work with CCAP please contact Narinder Dhaliwal at narinderd@etr.org or 916-642-1186.
