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Dr
Ron Borland
 Dr
Borland is Co-Director of the VicHealth Centre
for Tobacco Control at The Cancer Council Victoria.
He is a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of
Health and Behavioural Sciences at Deakin University
and also holds honorary appointments at the University
of Melbourne and Monash University.
Ron has published 100 papers in peer-reviewed
journals. He is on the editorial board of five
international journals in the addiction, public
health and behavioural medicine fields. He sits
on the Research and Evaluation Committee of the
National Tobacco Campaign, and is a member of
the Australian Cancer Society's Tobacco Control
Sub-Committee. He has active collaborations with
researchers and tobacco control programs in the
USA, Canada, UK, and The Netherlands.
His research interests in tobacco control include
studies on: the impact on smokers of restriction
on their smoking; community responses to ETS control;
factors influencing successful quit attempts;
efficacy of smoking cessation strategies; determinants
of smoking uptake; effects of health warnings
on smokers and potential smokers; exploration
of better systems of informing consumers about
what they ingest when they smoke; better systems
for regulating tobacco; understanding what is
needed for optimum community-wide tobacco control;
and barriers to stronger governmental tobacco
control initiatives.
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