Archives: Speakers

Andrea Crossfield

Andrea is currently leading the development and delivery of the All Together Smokefree Cheshire and Merseyside programme to deliver a Smokefree 2030 with the bold vision to end smoking. She is also providing public health leadership to the Accenture/NHS Greater Manchester Team delivering the National Smoke-Free Pregnancy Incentive Scheme on behalf of the Office for… Read more »

Prof Rachael Murray

Rachael Murray is a Professor of Population Health at the University of Nottingham and specialises in tobacco control research in multiple health settings.  She is currently the Principal Investigator on a trial investigating the addition of a personalised smoking cessation intervention to a lung cancer screening programme (the Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking Study, YESS; delivered… Read more »

Sarah Hepworth

Sarah has worked in tobacco control for over 24 years, in various roles and is passionate about implementing genuine system-wide, comprehensive tobacco control at a population level, to drive down smoking prevalence and reduce health inequalities. Sarah has led the Sheffield Tobacco Control Partnership since 2017, achieving significant reductions in adult smoking prevalence which have… Read more »

Professor Lynne Dawkins

Lynne Dawkins is Professor of Nicotine and Tobacco Studies and leads the Nicotine, Tobacco, and Vaping Research Group (NTVRG) in the School of Applied Sciences at London South Bank University, UK. She joined LSBU in 2016 having previously worked in the Psychology Division at the University of East London where she led the Drugs and… Read more »

Dr Jasmine Khouja

Jasmine Khouja is a Senior Research Associate in smoking studies at the University of Bristol. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of e-cigarette use as well as the potential impact that e-cigarette policy changes could have on adult smokers, adult vapers and young people. Using a range of methods (including novel methods in… Read more »

Rebecca Lim

Rebecca is the lead midwife for smoking in pregnancy at Liverpool Womens NHS Foundation Trust. In 2021 Rebecca implemented Risk Perception Intervention Clinics which have been highly successful in reducing the smoking at time of delivery. Following the long term plan in 2024 Rebecca implemented an inhouse maternity smoking service at Liverpool Womens NHS Foundation… Read more »

Fran Frankland

I have a Masters in Risk Taking Behaviour and am a qualified trainer. My main areas of interest are developing NHS services to meet emerging public health concerns. In the past, this has included HIV and teenage pregnancy. Following this, I lead on a major project implementing a whole systems approach to reducing the number… Read more »

Mandy Hancock

Mandy is Programme Manager for Treating Tobacco Dependency at NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care. Mandy has been involved in tobacco work since 2011 following a keen interest in health prevention and the completion of a master’s degree in health psychology. Mandy has been involved in various roles including the provision and the commissioning of stop… Read more »

Tom Liddicoat

  Tom led the Early Implementer Site for the Treating Tobacco Dependency community model for individuals with Severe Mental Illness at Healthy Cornwall. He is an experienced Smoking cessation practitioner and has supported a variety of health improvement interventions across children & young people and Adult life stages. Tom has worked within health and wellbeing… Read more »

Kate Heighway

I trained and worked in Bradford initially, moving to Calderdale in 2009 to work in a community case loading team looking after women with complex social issues. Appointed as Lead Public Health Midwife in 2015 managing a small team with a portfolio covering smoking in pregnancy, maternal obesity, vaccinations, parent education and health promotion. Outside… Read more »