Professor Alistair Woodward

Professor Alistair Woodward is Professor of Public Health at the Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. He trained in medicine at Adelaide University, undertook postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, and returned to Australia to an academic career in public health.

His involvement in tobacco control includes a period as chair of ASH South Australia, chairing the NH&MRC working party on passive smoking and health in the 1990s, and a trustee of the Smoke Free Coalition of New Zealand. His research in the tobacco field has centred on exposure to second hand smoke and the consequent health risks.

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