Speaker Group: Speakers 2021

Professor Marcus Munafò

Marcus Munafò is Professor of Biological Psychology in the School of Psychological Science, and MRC Investigator in the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, at the University of Bristol. His research interests include the understanding causal pathways between health behaviours and physical and mental health. He also has a long-standing interest in the factors that influence research… Read more »

Prof Robert Beaglehole

Robert Beaglehole is an independent public health physician with a longstanding interest in the prevention and management of chronic diseases. He was professor of public health at the University of Auckland before taking up a position at WHO, Geneva where he became the Director of the Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion before returning… Read more »

Prof Robin Mermelstein

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 »

Prof Wayne Hall

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 »

Prof Thomas J. Glynn, PhD

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 »

Cliff Douglas JD

Cliff Douglas is the Director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network, an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, and a co-principal investigator for the Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations at the University of Michigan. He was the American Cancer Society’s Vice President for Tobacco Control from 2015 to 2020,… Read more »

Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos M.D

Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH is a cardiologist and research fellow at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens-Greece, at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras-Greece and at the National School of Public Health-Greece. He is specialized in echocardiography and in smoking and tobacco harm reduction research. He was the lead researcher in Intervendor Study,… Read more »