Dr. Fong is Professor of Psychology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and Senior Investigator at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Dr. Fong is Founder and Chief Principal Investigator of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project), a large international consortium of 150 researchers across 31 countries, covering… Read more »
Associate Professor Sivakumar A/L Thurairajasingam is Associate Professor (Practice) in Psychiatry and Deputy Head (Education) of the Clinical School Johor Bahru. Dr Sivakumar joined Monash University Malaysia on 1st August 2006 as a lecturer. He obtained his MBBS from the University of Mangalore, India (1994) and then went on to complete his Master in Medicine… Read more »
Mitch Zeller, J.D., was the director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products from March 2013 through April 2022. The mission of CTP—established by enactment of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act—is “to make tobacco-related death and disease part of America’s past, not America’s future, and, by doing so, ensure a healthier… Read more »
Ben Youdan started his career running the UK’s No Smoking Day Campaign in the early 2000’s before moving to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2006 to take on the role of ASH Director. He worked on the campaign for the Smokefree 2025 goal, and the policy steps to accompany it. In 2013 he took time out… Read more »
Jasmine Khouja is a Senior Research Associate in smoking studies at the University of Bristol. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of e-cigarette use as well as the potential impact that e-cigarette policy changes could have on adult smokers, adult vapers and young people. Using a range of methods (including novel methods in… Read more »
Louise Ross retired in 2018 as the manager of the Leicester, England, Stop Smoking Service, but continues to be active in tobacco harm reduction. The Leicester stop smoking service was the first in the country to go ‘ecig-friendly’ on No Smoking Day 2014. She now works as Business Development Manager for the Smoke-Free app which… Read more »
Marc Gunther is a veteran reporter who writes about many things, including philanthropy, tobacco policy, psychedelic drugs and animal rights. He took a critical look at the campaign against vaping funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies in a long story in the Chronicle of Philanthropy last March. His writing about e-cigarettes and tobacco can be found here. Marc was… Read more »
Colin was a GP in Sydney, Australia for 27 years with a special interest in smoking cessation and now works exclusively in tobacco treatment. He is a member of the committee that develops the Australian RACGP national smoking cessation guidelines and is the Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. Colin was a… Read more »
Rosanna O’Connor has been appointed as the Director of Addictions & Inclusion in the new Office of Health Improvement & Disparities, following her interim role as director of Public Health England’s (PHE) Health Improvement Directorate, during the pandemic and PHE’s Transition. Rosanna’s new role covers alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and gambling, plus the inclusion health agendas… Read more »
Professor Linda Bauld holds the Bruce and John Usher Chair in Public Health in the Usher Institute, College of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Linda is a behavioural scientist whose research focuses on two main areas: the evaluation of complex interventions to improve health, and how research can inform public health policy. She leads… Read more »
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