Assoc Prof Tessa Langley

Associate Professor in Public Health Economics and Evaluation

University of Nottingham

Biography

Tessa Langley is a health economist specialising in the field of tobacco control. She graduated with an Honours degree in Economics and Economic History from the University of Warwick in 2007 and went on to work as a Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment in Vienna and as a trainee in DG Health and Consumers at the European Commission in Brussels. She completed a Masters in Public Health at the University of Nottingham in 2009 before continuing to a research role, PhD and subsequently a lectureship at UoN. She currently holds the role of Associate Professor in Health Economics.

The main focus of Tessa’s research is on polices designed to reduce consumption of unhealthy commodities including tobacco, alcohol and foods high in fat, salt and sugar. Tessa has undertaken consultancy for the World Bank and Cancer Research UK and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians’ Tobacco Advisory Group, which has published numerous reports on tobacco, smoking and e-cigarettes which have informed national policy in the UK. She is a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. She currently convenes two Masters in Public Health modules and teaches on a number of other modules. She supervises PhD students undertaking research in tobacco control and a range of other public health and health economics topics. Tessa is Deputy Director of Doctoral Programmes for the School of Medicine.