Archives: Speakers

Ailsa Rutter OBE

Ailsa originally trained as a nurse and has worked in tobacco control since 1998. Her early work included heading up the Queensland Quit Campaign in Australia, managing Gateshead and South Tyneside NHS Stop Smoking Service and being Regional Tobacco Policy Manager for the North East. In 2005 Ailsa working with others launched Fresh the UK’s… Read more »

Assoc Prof Abigail S. Friedman

Abigail S. Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the policy determinants of tobacco use and disparities therein, with the overarching goal of informing and facilitating evidence-based policymaking to improve population health and reduce inequality. A health economist… Read more »

Dr Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh

Professor Dr. Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh is a trained Medical Doctor from UKM, Malaysia. She obtained her Master’s in Public Health (Hospital and Health Management) and PhD on Health Economics from the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). Her main interests are in areas of health policy, health inequality and health economics. She… Read more »

Dr Garrett McGovern

Dr McGovern qualified in Medicine in 1995 from Trinity College Dublin and has worked as a GP specialising in the treatment of substance misuse since the implementation of the methadone treatment protocol in 1998. He is Medical Director of the Priority Medical Clinic, a private addiction treatment programme located in South County Dublin. In January… Read more »

Stefaan Hendrickx

Stefaan Hendrickx is a sociologist (University of Leuven) and has been working on tobacco for the Flemish Institute for Healthy Living for 12 years. Within the organization he is responsible for the substantive coordination of the theme, development of methodologies, advice for the Flemish government, development of projects with a new focus such as tobacco-related… Read more »

David Graham

David Graham is Chief Impact Officer at NJOY, a role which leads efforts across the company to maximize the positive impact on public health of the company’s products and services through increasing their reach and effectiveness while including oversight of regulatory affairs for the company. He has extensive experience in nicotine and non-nicotine new product… Read more »

Dr Harry Tattan-Birch

Dr Harry Tattan-Birch is a Research Fellow in the Department of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London (UCL). Harry specialises in research into psychology, behaviour change, and health, with expertise in the design and statistical analysis of randomised trials and causal inference with observational data. Harry has authored 20+ peer-reviewed publications and leads… Read more »

Dr Winston Price, M.D., FAAP, FACPE

Dr. Price earned his medical degree from the Weill Cornell Medical College and completed a residency in pediatrics at The New York Hospital-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Winston Price, M.D., FAAP, FACPE is a board-certified pediatrician and served as President of the National Medical Association (NMA) from August 2004 to July 2005. As President he guided… Read more »

Liam Humberstone

Liam is a technologist, engineer and scientist committed to the ongoing development of the e-cigarette, e-liquids and vaping in the interest of providing a continuously improving alternative to combustible tobacco. He was steering group member for one of the first recognised standards concerning e-cigarettes, BSI PAS 54115:2015. Since then, he has been active in European… Read more »

Prof Maciej L. Goniewicz

Dr. Maciej L. Goniewicz joined the staff of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Roswell Park) in 2013 as Assistant Member of the Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences. In 2016, he was appointed Associate Member and as a Full Member in 2021. He is a Director of the Nicotine and… Read more »