rendezvous

Denise Sullivan about the campaigns of the Cancer Council Western Australia

Rendez-Vous 170  July 10, 2007

Philippe Boucher: Hello Denise. Nice to have you back for a rendez-vous since our previous cyber-interview took place on March 31, 1999. You are still very much involved in tobacco control. Can you update the professional information about yourself?

Denise Sullivan: Thank you Philippe.  I am pleased to say I am still very involved in tobacco control, although now working in the non-government sector.  In August 2000, I took up the inaugural position of Director of The Cancer Council Western Australia’s Tobacco Program (known then as ‘Target 15’).

Trish Cotter about the media campaigns of the Cancer Institute in New South Wales

Rendez-vous 169,   June 19, 2007

Thank you Trish for taking the time to be with us today.
May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Trish Cotter: My first ever job after University (BSc) was with the Victorian Quit Campaign (over 20 years ago). It was just being set up and I was the second person to be employed.  My first role was as a project assistant and I expected to be at Quit Victoria for 12 months and then move on to something else.  Thirteen years later I finally moved on having had many different roles and seen lots of exciting changes such as banning tobacco advertising and the first well funded mass media campaigns.

David Bostock about smoking and stroke.

David Bostock's story inspired the NSW's campaign The Voice Within that is described by Trish Cotter in her rendez-vous. Here is his testimony.

Mike Daube

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Tuesday, August 8 2000

Nota: I met with Mike Daube, Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia,  Subiaco, Western Australia, during the 11th world conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago. A slightly different version of this interview was published in the daily journal of the conference (in the August 8th issue).

Thank you Mike for accepting our rendez-vous.  May I ask you to introduce yourself?

I was the first Director of Action on Smoking and Health in the UK from 1973 to 1979. Then I worked with the University of Edinburgh until I left for Perth where I joined the Government of Western Australia in 1984.

Simon Chapman

Tuesday, August 3, 1999

Thank you Simon for accepting our " rendez-vous ". May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

Hi! I'm an Associate Professor in Public Health & Community Medicine at the University of Sydney.

I've worked in tobacco control since 1978.

Denise Sullivan

Wednesday, March 31, 1999

Thank you Denise for accepting our " rendez-vous ". May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

My name is Denise Sullivan and I am Coordinator of the Smoking & Health Program of the Health Department of Western Australia. I am a graduate of Curtin University, with a BEd in literature and Graduate Diploma in Library & Information Studies.  I am currently studying towards an MPH at the University of Western Australia.
I have been involved in tobacco control for almost 4 years.

Judith Watt

Tuesday, February 9 1999

Thank you Judith for accepting our " rendez-vous ". May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

I have been working in tobacco control for ten years.
I started out as the first full-time co-ordinator of the UK's national No Smoking Day campaign. After four years, I moved on to work on policy issues in the Tobacco Program at the Health Education Authority in London. For the last three and half years, I have been working in Australia as the Executive Director of Quit in Victoria.

I return to London next week for family reasons but I hope to keep in touch with developments in tobacco control. As David Sweanor has been known to say - it's alright for smokers, they can quit tobacco but tobacco control advocates can't give it up!