Archives: Speakers

Alex joined the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group (TARG) at the University of Bristol after completing a PhD as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research. Her current research focus aims to increase understanding of how early life experiences, socioeconomic position, mental health and other factors may influence smoking and vaping habits… Read more »

Tom Freeman is the Director of the Addiction and Mental Health Group, an interdisciplinary research group bridging the departments of Psychology and Life Sciences at the University of Bath. He is Vice President of the Society for the Study of Addiction, and Senior Editor for the journal Addiction. He is internationally known for his research… Read more »

Pablo runs the ECigIntelligence regulatory analysis team, leading  international, US and EU coverage in regulatory reports and trackers. Pablo holds an LLM with Distinction from the University of Aberdeen, an LLB in law from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a BA in political science from Pompeu Fabra University. He started his career with an… Read more »

Professor Coral Gartner is an international expert in tobacco control policy and the world’s leading expert on electronic nicotine delivery systems (or e-cigarettes). She is the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (Tobacco Endgame CRE), an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network, the country lead… Read more »

Jeff Weiss is the former Chief Engagement Officer, General Counsel, and Interim President of NJOY, the third largest e-cigarette company in the United States.  An NJOY lawsuit against FDA, culminating in a 2011 D.C. Circuit decision in the company’s favor, paved the way for FDA regulation of non-medicinal nicotine products.  In 2022, NJOY became the… Read more »

Dr. Peter Selby is a Senior Scientist and Senior Medical Consultant at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is the Vice-Chair, Research and Giblon Professor in Family Medicine, University of Toronto.  His research focuses on innovative methods to understand and treat addictive behaviours and their comorbidities. He uses technology to combine clinical… Read more »

Professor Jamie Brown is Director of the UCL Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group and leads a CRUK programme of research to i) provide insights from the Smoking Toolkit Study into population-wide influences on smoking, smoking cessation and vaping and ii) advance the scientific foundation, and further the development of, potentially wide-reach digital behaviour change technologies…. Read more »

Katie is a Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) Griffith Edwards Academic Fellow and Research Associate working on projects relating to nicotine and tobacco product perceptions and use, with a focus on youth and young adults. Katie’s Fellowship is based within KCL’s Nicotine Research Group (NRG) but also involves collaborations with KCL’s Department of… Read more »

Dr Nicola Lindson is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. She has been involved in tobacco smoking research since 2008. Her work has mainly focused on ways to help people to stop smoking and she is a core member of the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group, leading… Read more »