Ann McNeill

Ph.D., B.Sc., PGCE

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 Ph.D. 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 Organization award for contributions to tobacco control in 1998. She has published more than 350 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 UK 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.

Institution Profile: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/addictions/people/profiles/AnnMcNeill
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