2025 Influencer Awards
Many different types of influencers participated in tobacco control campaigns this year, from medical professionals, to media personalities, to youth activists and more. See below for some of the top influencer content + campaigns being recognized this year.
Top Influencer Campaigns
Medical Student Network
The National Heart Foundation's network of 20+ medical students are busy training to become the future of Bangladesh's healthcare system, but their passion for public health drives them to participate in myriad online and offline tobacco control events. For World Heart Day, 19 students shared individual quotes on their social media pages, calling for stronger tobacco control measures and sharing personal anecdotes about what drives them to support the tobacco control movement.
Cartoonist Collective
Satire has been an incredibly effective tool in the Philippines, particularly in bringing to light the influence of the industry. In total, through paid media and organic cartoonist posts, art from our cartoonist collective has driven over 150,000 reactions, and 20,000 shares. The impact even reached offline. During an offline meeting with a Mayor championing smoke-free policies, he was gifted a printed poster of a cartoon that he then shared on his own social media, praising the partnership and artist and garnering widespread engagement.
Podcast
The IYCTC hosted a successful podcast series throughout 2025, with eight episodes and counting. They invited doctors, youth advocates to talk about important tobacco control issues in a fun and friendly atmosphere. By breaking up longer form video content into short snippets, IYCTC was able to both host substantive conversations as well as break out social ready clips for driving engagement and impact more broadly.
Influencer Champions
We are thrilled to recognize individual advocates who used their followings to effectively support tobacco control this year.
Dr. Adam Prabata
Ph.D in Medical Sciences, Kobe University. Residency in Internal Medicine.
ZACH
Cartoonist, illustrator, and satirist from the Philippines. Member of Cartooning for Peace.
Dr. Bobby Arfhan Anwar
Interventional Cardiologist - Digital Health influencer Award Winner.
Liza Adamska
Fashion Model - Miss Eco International Ukraine 2025.