Katherine East

Ph.D.

Katherine East is an Associate Professor in Public Health within the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and she also has a visiting appointment at King's College London (KCL). Katie co-leads the England arm of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project together with Professor Ann McNeill at KCL. She recently completed a Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) Griffith Edwards Academic Fellowship in King’s College London's Nicotine Research Group (NRG), where she worked on projects relating to nicotine and tobacco product perceptions and use, with a focus on youth and young adults. She has over 90 academic outputs and was recently awarded the Fred Yates Prize for Early Career Researchers from the Society for the Study of Addiction (2024) for significant contributions to work in the field of addiction.

Katherine East has also contributed to reports assessing the health effects and perceptions of vaping for the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) and the Royal College of Physicians. She has also worked with the UK non-profit Evidence to Impact and local authorities across the UK on youth smoking and vaping education initiatives, served on the steering committee for Cancer Research UK's E-Cigarette Research Forum, and advised the Canadian Cancer Society on youth smoking and vaping prevention. Katie has also consulted for UKRI on research culture initiatives in the UK.

Katherine East has a BSc in Experimental Psychology from the University of Bristol, an MSc in Clinical Mental Health Studies from University College of London, and a PhD in Addiction Sciences from King’s College London. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Waterloo from 2020 to 2021.

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