As part of the Evening Standard’s International Women’s Day special series, we’re joined by Ann McNeill, professor of tobacco addiction at King’s College London.
Professor McNeill is also vice-dean of culture, diversity and inclusion at the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
She discusses how early family experiences inspired a focus on tobacco addiction, leadership in academia and how her team’s pioneering research led to an overhaul for cigarette shop displays in UK shops.
Professor McNeill, one of Britain’s leading tobacco addiction experts, has published over 350 research papers on subjects around the impacts of smoking and vaping.
She has also been awarded a World Health Organisation medal, and her work is so influential it informed the UK government’s point-of-sale ban on displaying tobacco products in shops.
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