Billie Bonevski, Laura Twynman, Fabiana Lorencatto, Susan Michie and Robert West
Presenter(s)
Professor Billie Bonevski Research Fellow, University of Newcastle, Calvary Mater Hospital, Australia
Biography
Prof Billie Bonevski is a health behaviour scientist and Cancer Institute NSW Research Fellow at the University if Newcastle, Australia with a research focus on addressing tobacco-related health disparities. She has a track record in health behaviour change and cancer prevention research. She has published 55 peer review articles and attracted $5.7M in NHMRC funding.
Fabiana Lorencatto is a research associate at the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training. She is currently completing her PhD in Health Psychology at Univeristy College London, looking at behavioural support for smoking cessation in practice. Prior to this she has obtained a MSc in Health Psychology from King's College London, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from University College London.
Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, University College London;
Co-director, National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, UK
Susan Michie is a chartered clinical and health psychologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the European Health Psychology Society and the British Psychological Society. She leads the Health Psychology Research Group at UCL studying behaviour change in relation to health: how to understand it theoretically and how to develop more effective interventions. Her work develops methods to advance the study of behaviour change. This is conducted in the domains of risky and preventive behaviours amongst the general population (e.g. smoking) and professional practice and implementation (e.g. hand hygiene).
Robert West is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, UK. Professor West is also co-director of the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Addiction. He is also Past-President of the Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco. He is co-author of the English and Scottish National Smoking Cessation Guidelines that provided the blueprint for the UK wide network of smoking cessation services that are now an established part of the UK National Health Service.
