Michelle Scollo

Michelle Scollo is Co- Director of the VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control. She has worked in tobacco control at state, national and international levels since 1988. A former director of Quit Victoria, Michelle played a key role in establishing co-operative national arrangements for resource production and service provision in Quit campaigns in various states and territories.

As a consultant to the Australian Cancer Society and National Heart Foundation between 1996 and 2001, Michelle worked on major policy initiatives in taxation reform, tobacco product regulation, clean air policies and comprehensive approaches to tobacco control. At VCTC she is now coordinating further research and advocacy in support of the tobacco control agenda outlined in VCTC's key document: Tobacco Control: A Blue Chip Investment in Public Health.

She is a member of the tobacco advisory groups of the Cancer Council Victoria, the National Heart Foundation and The Cancer Council Australia. She also provides consultancy advice to ASH Australia. Michelle has been a key note speaker at several international tobacco control conferences, and assisted with media support to the International 6th Tobacco or Health Conference in Perth in 1990. Michelle led the process of vision development for tobacco control in Australia which was a key feature of the first national tobacco control conference in Adelaide in 2001.

Back to Conference Speakers Section