Professor Linda Bauld Professor of Health Policy, School of Management, University of Stirling and UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (UKCTCS)
Biography
Linda Bauld is Professor of Health Policy at the University of Stirling. She has a background in applied policy research and for the past 15 years her research interests have centred on the evaluation of public health interventions. She has conducted studies on drug and alcohol use, inequalities in health and on tobacco control and smoking cessation. She is a former scientific adviser on tobacco control to the Department of Health and currently chairs a number of public health advisory and funding committees for NICE, Cancer Research UK and the Scottish government.
Examples of her recent work include conducting the UK government's 2011 review of the impact of smokefree legislation in England and examining the experiences of problem drug users accessing benefits to inform recent DWP welfare reforms. From September 2013 she will become Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, a UK Centre for Public Health Excellence that covers 13 Universities.
