Professor Ann McNeill

Professor of Tobacco Addiction
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience,, Kings College London
Biography
Ann McNeill is a Professor of Addictions in the National Addiction Centre with a focus on tobacco. She graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first class joint honours degree in zoology and psychology and then carried out her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry focusing on the development of dependence on smoking. Since that time she has held a variety of academic and public sector posts focusing largely on tobacco control research. Ann has an established international reputation, receiving a World Health Organisation award for contributions to tobacco control in 1998.
She has published more than 250 academic papers book chapters, reports and opinion pieces on the subject and her research ranges across prevention, cessation, harm reduction and local, national and international policy. Ann was a co-author of the recent systematic review of tobacco product packaging which underpinned the recent government consultation on plain packaging and has a particular interest in the relationship between smoking, mental health and inequalities. She is Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.
Competing Interest: None Stated
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May 17 2022 4:05 pm - Panel Discussion and Q&A: Framing the future
May 17 2022 4:55 pm - Can we have a simultaneous compassionate and dispassionate approach to vaping?
May 25 12:55 pm - Panel Discussion and Q&A: What are the public health objectives – Preventing Nicotine use or ending smoking?
May 25 2:10 pm
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