The Tackling Indigenous Smoking Technical Advisory Group (TIS TAG) was established by the Australian Government Department of Health in January 2020. The group provides technical advice across the TIS program on:

• matters relating to strategies, priorities, activities and implementation of the program
• supporting evidence-based knowledge and best practice in tobacco control/population health promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities
• identifying current and emerging risks that could affect the effectiveness of the TIS program, and ways of mitigating these risks
• any other matters to support the TIS program to meet its goals.

The role of the Group is advisory only. It has no governance or decision-making responsibilities for the TIS program.

TIS TAG meets at least quarterly via teleconference and/or using video-conferencing technology. Face-to-face meetings are held once a year.

The National Best Practice Unit for Tackling Indigenous Smoking (NBPU TIS) provides secretariat support and coordinates all meetings and the distribution of agendas, papers and minutes. Input and advice may also be sought from TIS TAG members outside of scheduled meetings.

Summaries of the meetings are published here:

• TIS TAG Communique #3 – 15 June 2021
• TIS TAG Communique #2 – 16 March 2021
• TIS TAG Communique #1 – 5 June 2020

Find information here about the previous Advisory Group (2016-2019) and Communiques.

Membership

Members include representatives from the TIS program components, specialists in Tobacco Control, and experts in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social and emotional wellbeing. Membership is drawn from across a number of sectors including Community Controlled Health, academia, non-government and government. The Group has a majority Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander membership.

	Professor Tom Calma AO (Chair) National Coordinator, Tackling Indigenous Smoking
	Ms Lena Etuk Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia (CIRCA)
	Associate Professor Gillian Gould iSISTAQUIT
	Ms Libby Jardine Cancer Council of Western Australia
	Ms Madonna Kennedy Queensland Health
	Ms Raquel Kerdel Cancer Council (SA) / Quitskills
	Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Ltd. Representative to be advised
	Dr Raglan Maddox Australian National University
	Ms Katherine McHugh Department of Health
	Ms Ashley McLachlan-Bent Department of Health
	Mr Shane Mohor Aboriginal Health Council South Australia (AHCSA)
	Mr Rod Reeve Managing Director, Ninti One Ltd
	Professor David Thomas Head of Tobacco Control Research, Menzies School of Health Research
	Associate Professor Penney Upton University of Canberra
	Ms Eileen van Iersel National Best Practice Unit for Tackling Indigenous Smoking