Dr Ann McNeill

Dr Ann McNeill is an honorary senior lecturer in psychology at St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London and is an independent consultant in public health. Her current work covers tobacco policy and research and her particular interests include the development of dependence on smoking, nicotine and product regulatory issues, and smoking cessation (she co-authored the English national smoking cessation guidelines).

Dr McNeill is also a senior editor of the BMJ International Journal, Tobacco Control, and a member of the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

She is a former chair of the WHO Scientific Advisory Committee on tobacco product regulation and the WHO Partnership Project to reduce tobacco dependence. Dr McNeill has published many articles and reports and co-authored a book on tobacco control. Her doctoral thesis was on 'The Development of Dependence in Adolescent Smokers'.

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