Speaker Group: Speaker 2025

Prof Jonathan Foulds

Dr. Jonathan Foulds has spent most of his career finding ways to help smokers beat their addiction to tobacco. He has been a principal investigator on grants totaling well over $27 million and has been invited to speak on smoking cessation in more than 15 countries. Dr Foulds trained as a clinical psychologist at the… Read more »

Prof Benjamin A. Toll

Dr. Benjamin Toll is a licensed clinical psychologist, the Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair in Cancer Research, a Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Public Health Sciences, and the Associate Director of Education and Training and Co-Director of the Lung… Read more »

Caitlin Robinson

Caitlin Robinson is a Project Manager working on behalf of the North East and North Cumbria ICS Smokefree NHS Workstream and has been project managing the NHS Staff Tobacco Dependency Offer since its inception in December 2019.   With a background of working in an NHS Research and Development team which included recruiting patients to smoking… Read more »

Bubbly Sandhu

Bubbly Sandhu is the UK’s enforcement lead for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Battery takeback regulations, working with businesses both domestically and internationally to drive compliance and responsible recycling practices. She chairs the cross-UK Government Vape Enforcement Committee, bringing together national efforts across multiple government departments to strengthen regulatory enforcement. Runs several programmes… Read more »

Assoc Prof Tessa Langley

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… Read more »

Prof Hayden McRobbie

Hayden McRobbie is Professor of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Public Health Doctor at Barts NHS Health Trust. He is a recognised leader in healthcare and academia, with extensive experience as a public health physician, researcher, and senior civil servant. His work focuses on risk factors for non-communicable diseases… Read more »

Dr John Robins

Dr John Robins is a research associate at the National Addiction Centre, King’s College London. He has worked as a substance use treatment and recovery practitioner across a range of settings including criminal justice, aftercare and outreach services. After coming to King’s College London in 2017 to undertake an MSc in Addictions he won the… Read more »

David Hunt

After a 16 year career in the police service David joined local government at the London Borough of Camden, retraining and qualifying within the Trading standards team. David has been working in the field of Vapes and Nicotine products since 2012 becoming aware of the sudden increase in vaping products that were reaching the market… Read more »

Dr Ruth Sharrock

Dr Sharrock is a Respiratory Consultant at Gateshead Health NHS FT and Clinical Lead for Tobacco Dependency within the NENC ICS. Ruth’s passion to treat tobacco dependency arises from seeing the harm caused by tobacco on the front line within the NHS. Ruth has worked across NENC to support Foundation Trusts to implement the Tobacco… Read more »

Assistant Prof Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst. She’s recently moved from the University of Oxford in the UK, where she retains an honorary contract. She is an expert in evidence synthesis and an editor for Cochrane. She leads multiple high impact Cochrane reviews in the areas… Read more »