The third session was focused on the latest research on e-cigarettes and tobacco.
This session included presentations on NDARC’s tobacco and e-cigarettes stream, including the e-cigarette surveillance project and smoking cessation trials. Speakers included leading experts in the area including Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, and Professor Hayden McRobbie, Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Consultant in Lifestyle Medicine at Lakes District Health Board, New Zealand.
Session Chair: Professor Hayden McRobbie
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Welcome to Country |
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| E-cigarettes – insights from England. ABSTRACT |
Professor Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction and Vice Dean (Culture, Diversity and Inclusion), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London |
Presentation |
| Advising e-cigarette regulations in Australia: the e-cigarette surveillance project. ABSTRACT |
Dr Emily Stockings, Senior Lecturer at NDARC |
Presentation |
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Discussion (inc Q&A) |
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Q&A (Brief) |
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Adolescent e-cigarette use - Is it renormalising traditional cigarette smoking? WATCH HERE |
Ms Tianze Sun, PhD Candidate at the School of Psychology, University of Queensland |
Featured Poster |
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E-cigarettes in the COVID era. WATCH HERE |
Ms Greta Baillie, Research Assistant at NDARC |
Featured Poster |
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Equity in smoking cessation clinical trials. WATCH HERE |
Ms Saki Talukder, Research Assistant at NDARC |
Featured Poster |
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Comparing the effectiveness of nicotine e-cigarettes and NRT: A systematic network meta-analysis. WATCH HERE |
Dr Daniel Stjepanovic, Research Fellow at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use, University of Queensland |
Featured Poster |
| Trends in e-cigarette use – where to from here? ABSTRACT |
Professor Hayden McRobbie, Professor at NDARC and Consultant in Lifestyle Medicine at Lakes District Health Board, New Zealand |
Presentation |
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An update of NDARC cessation trials. ABSTRACT |
Dr Ryan Courtney, Senior Lecturer at NDARC |
Presentation |
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E-cigarette use among young people in Australia - preliminary findings from APSALS. ABSTRACT |
Dr Veronica Boland, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NDARC |
Presentation |
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Discussion (inc Q&A) |
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Discussion (inc Q&A) |
Professor Ann McNeill
Ann McNeill is a Professor of Tobacco Addiction and Vice Dean (Culture, Diversity & Inclusion) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. She has worked in tobacco control research and policy for 35 years, working across prevention, cessation, harm reduction, and smoking and mental health. Annually since 2015 she has been named among the global top 1% of most cited researchers in her field by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. This year she was awarded the Doll-Wynder Award for Research in Epidemiology & Public Health, by the international Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Dr Emily Stockings
Emily is a senior lecturer and NHMRC early career research fellow, based at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Australia. Emily conducts research into the efficacy of mental health and substance use treatments, advises Government departments in policy and regulatory decision making, leads randomised controlled trials of novel treatments for smoking cessation and has specialist skills in systematic reviews and meta-analysis. She has a particular interest in reducing the health, social and financial burden of smoking, particularly for vulnerable groups such as those with a mental disorder.
Profesor Hayden McRobbie
Professor Hayden McRobbie is a health behaviour change expert with a special interest in tobacco and obesity.
He is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Consultant in Lifestyle Medicine at Lakes District Health Board, New Zealand. He is also Fellow of The Australasian Society for Lifestyle Medicine, and serves on the editorial boards of Addiction and Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Dr Ryan Courtney
Dr Courtney is currently a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Health Behavior science at the University of New South Wales’s (UNSW), National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC). His prior appointment was an Australian Rotary Health PhD Scholar (2008-2012) at the Priority Research Centre Health Behaviour, University of Newcastle. Recently he was promoted (effective January, 2015) to Research Fellow and Lecturer at the UNSW and commenced a highly prestigious Cancer Institute New South Wales (CINSW) Early Career Research Fellowship (effective July, 2015).
Dr Veronica Boland
Dr Veronica Boland has worked in the nicotine and tobacco research area since 2012 and was successfully awarded her PhD in 2018. Her research is focussed on smoking and social disadvantage where her work is embedded with high consumer engagement and aims to improve delivery of new and enhanced evidence-based cessation strategies for disadvantaged smokers. Continuing this focus, Veronica commenced a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in early 2018 on a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded randomised controlled trial (RCT) at the University of New South Wales, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Australia.
All posters this year can be accessed online and are accomnaied by a two minute presentation.