Personal Chair of Health Promotion
Role
Coordinator of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in health promotion.
Coordinator of Year 4 MBChB public health teaching
Convener of the University of Edinburgh Tobacco Control Research Group
Convener of the Medical and Dental Exclusion Review Committee
Teaching Responsibilities
Undergraduate
Health Promotion teaching in Years 1 and 4 of the medical curriculum.
Postgraduate
Health Promotion teaching in the MPH.
PhD students researching different aspects of tobacco control and smoking issues eg smoking in the mid-teens; children's experiences of smoking in the home; young smokers' sources of cigarettes; smoking cessation and social networks; influence of the tobacco industry at the European level.
Research Interests
My main area of research is smoking and tobacco control. This focuses on a broad range of smoking issues at the individual, community and societal level, including:
young people - smoking uptake, dependence and cessation in the mid-to-late teens; transitions and smoking; smoking and gender; sources of cigarettes; e-cigarettes.
adults - smoking and disadvantage; smoking cessation; e-cigarettes; smoking and gender; smoking and ethnicity.
evaluation of tobacco control policies and initiatives - interventions to reduce children's exposure to secondhand smoke in the home; effectiveness of youth prevention policies including schools and sources of tobacco; equity impacts; networking and capacity building on women and tobacco in Europe.
Current Research Involvement
DISPLAY- Determining the Impact of Smoking Point of Sale Legislation Among Youth Study (with Stirling and St Andrew's Universities).
SILNE-R Enhancing the effectiveness of programs and strategies to prevent smoking by adolescents: a realist evaluation comparing seven European countries (Led by University of Amsterdam involving 8 countries)
Inequalities in smoking among 16-24 year olds: Scottish Health Survey secondary analysis and qualitative follow-up project. (with Scotcen)
Young adults’ understandings and experiences of e-cigarettes
First Steps to Smoke-free: Using air-quality feedback to facilitate smoke-free homes through the NHS Lanarkshire First Steps Programme. (with University of Aberdeen and NHS Lanarkshire)
A process evaluation of the implementation of ASSIST Scotland (with Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, Bristol and Cardiff).
Other Responsibilities/Activities
Associate Editor for Prevention of the journal Tobacco Control
Member of the European Board of the International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT)
Member of the Scottish Ministerial Working Group on Tobacco Control and sub-groups on Prevention, and Research and Evaluation
Member of the Board of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease
Consultant to NHs Lothian on smoking prevention
Further Information
Work History
Previous Appointments
1980-1982 |
Scientific Officer; MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh |
1983-1985 |
Senior Scientific Officer, Department of Community Medicine and Health Education, Hampstead Health Authority, London |
Appointed to University of Edinburgh
1985 |
Lecturer in Health Promotion, Public Health Sciences |
1992 |
Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion, Public Health Sciences |
2003 |
Reader in Health Promotion, Public Health Sciences |
2006 |
Professor of Health Promotion, Public Health Sciences |
Education
1976 |
BA (Hons) in Natural Science (Genetics) 2.1, University of Cambridge |
1983 |
PhD in Genetics, University of Cambridge |
1983 |
MSc in Community Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Other 2013 WHO World No Tobacco Day Medal 2015 Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health |
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Press/Media: Expert Comment
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