Hosted as part of the Guest Lecture Series from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, the afternoon featured a compelling keynote lecture from world-renowned epidemiologist Professor Sir Richard Peto titled ‘Tobacco deaths: the past 75 years and the next 75’.
Combined with presentations from the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, the event brought together leading researchers in tobacco research to reflect on how their work examining tobacco use, cessation, and harm reduction has evolved over decades of study, and to discuss future priorities for reducing the global burden of smoking-related disease.
Insights on tobacco harm
The Guest Lecture opened with an introduction from Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, who welcomed participants and set the stage for an afternoon exploring both the historical and future directions of tobacco control.
Associate Professor Nicola Lindson, who leads the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OxTAG) within NDPCHS, provided an overview of the team’s wide-ranging work. Short presentations followed, showcasing OxTAG’s contributions to:
- Understanding smoking cessation treatment and policy through systematic reviews by Dr Ailsa Butler and Dr Jonathan Livingstone-Banks
- Addressing unequal smoking rates across socioeconomic groups by Dr Angela Wu and Annika Theodoulou
- Supporting people with co-morbid conditions to switch to vaping when they do not wish to stop smoking entirely by Dr Rachna Begh and Jack Joyce.
Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences website.