Steven Schroeder, MD, is Distinguished Professor of Health and Healthcare at the University of California San Francisco, where he directs the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC). A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, he trained in internal medicine at Harvard and in epidemiology at the CDC. He held faculty positions at Harvard and… Read more »
Frances Thirlway is a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of York (UK). She has carried out research on e-cigarette take-up and on intergenerational trajectories of smoking and quitting in the North of England. She is also involved in research exploring tobacco use and cessation in Uganda and Pakistan. Frances combines painstaking qualitative… Read more »
Dr Sharon Cox is a Senior Research Fellow within the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group at University College London. Collectively she has over 15 years’ experience within substance use treatment and research. Her research focuses on tobacco dependence amongst people living with severe, and often unchanging, health and social needs. She has a special interest… Read more »
Dr. Robin Mermelstein, a Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Science, Department of Psychology, directs the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also is a research professor of community health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health, and the co-director of the UIC Center for Clinical… Read more »
Wayne Hall is an Emeritus Professor at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences. He was: a Professor at the National Addiction Centre, Kings College London (2014-2019) and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2012-2021)…. Read more »
Richard Holley is the Area Manager for the Northamptonshire Stop Smoking Service, and Tobacco Control lead for Public Health Northamptonshire. In February of this year, Richard and his team added e-cigarettes to the list of products they provide to Northamptonshire smokers looking to quit smoking. A keen harm reduction advocate, Richard has included vaping in… Read more »
Nicky has worked in stop smoking in a variety of guises since 2006, first as an HCA in a GP practice, followed by a locum advisor for pharmacy in Ealing, then into Public Health as part of a specialist team in Harrow. She is now the Service Lead and Specialist for the London Borough of… Read more »
Kenneth E. Warner is the Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Dean Emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he was on the faculty from 1972-2017. He served as Dean from 2005-2010 and as a department chair from 1982-88 and 1992-95. An economist, Dr. Warner earned his… Read more »
Dr. Glynn is, from 2014 to the present, Adjunct Lecturer, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine and Executive Team Member, Mayo Clinic Global Bridges Initiative. From 1998 to 2014, he was Director, Cancer Science and Trends and Director, International Cancer Control at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Prior to the ACS, Dr…. Read more »
Professor Agrawal is a Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, National Specialty Advisor for Tobacco to NHS England, and Special Advisor on Tobacco to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) . Sanjay has supported the implementation of new tobacco dependency treatment services across hospitals and maternity services… Read more »
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