Thank you Ann for accepting our "rendez-vous". May I ask you to introduce yourself ?
I currently work part-time as a research adviser at the Health Education Authority (HEA - which will no longer exist after March 31st this year, see below) working mainly on smoking, but also do some work on other addictions. In addition, I am Chair of the WHO Partnership Project to reduce tobacco dependence and a member of the European branch of the SRNT (the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco) Prior to the HEA I was at the Institute of Psychiatry within Professor Michael Russell's unit and worked predominantly on the development of dependence in young smokers.