Louise Ross retired in 2018 as the manager of the Leicester, England, Stop Smoking Service, but continues to be active in tobacco harm reduction. The Leicester stop smoking service was the first in the country to go ‘ecig-friendly’ on No Smoking Day 2014. She now works as Business Development Manager for the Smoke-Free app Smoke… Read more »
Dr Roger Henderson was born in 1960 and raised in Cumbria. He qualified as a doctor from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London in 1985, and as a general practitioner in 1990. He entered the media world in 1995, and within 2 years was the medical columnist for the Sunday Times. He is now health columnist for… Read more »
Having qualified with an Advanced Diploma in Midwifery in 2001 from Bournemouth University, Faye also has over 23 years’ experience working in the NHS, more recently specialising in tobacco control in Dorset. Faye has been working as a Specialist smoking in pregnancy Midwife since 2019 and has proactively been the Smoke free Pregnancy Champion for… Read more »
Rachael Hodges is the tobacco policy lead at the BLF. Her role involves shaping policy in key areas including smoking cessation services and e-cigarettes. Rachael works with the UK government, and organisations such as the NHS, to make sure policy is evidence based and has considered the voices of patients. Before joining the BLF in… Read more »
A Pharmacist, Behaviour Change Specialist and National Public Health Trainer, Darush has specialised in the field of smoking cessation for over twenty years. Darush has presented at various national & international conferences (including the PCRS, IPCRG, Clinical Pharmacy Congress, HPE Live, UKNSCC) and was asked to help review the National Training Standards for Smoking Cessation…. Read more »
Dr Sharon Cox is a Principal 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 smoking amongst people living with severe, and often unchanging, health and social needs. She has a special interest… Read more »
Cecilia Farren has worked as a tobacco control activist for over 40 years! She has retired from full-time work but over the years she has campaigned at local, national and international levels for the NHS and NGOs and TC advocacy groups. Cecilia founded GASP as a non-smokers rights group in 1980 and this evolved into… Read more »
Hilary has a background in health service research and management as well as a clinical background in general nursing, midwifery and health visiting. She is particularly interested in using asset-based approaches in the development and implementation of public health initiatives and supporting organisations to implement evidence-based practice. Hilary has a long history of working in… Read more »
Freya Howle, CURE Programme Lead, was appointed by Greater Manchester Cancer (the cancer programme of Greater Manchester’s devolved health and social care system) in February 2018 to lead the planning and implementation of a 6 month pilot of CURE at Wythenshawe Hospital. Freya has continued in the CURE role to lead on the rollout of… Read more »
Professor Jacob George is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Therapeutics and R&D Director for the East of Scotland. He is one of four members of the NHS Research Scotland Strategy Board. Professor George is Director of the Tayside Medical Sciences Centre (TASC) comprising of the UKCRN registered Tayside Clinical Trials Unit, Clinical Research Centre, Tayside Biorepository, Clinical Research… Read more »
