Miriam Gunning Senior Health Promotion Officer for Tobacco, Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Miriam has a background in nursing and moved into health promotion in 2000. Since then she has specialized in tobacco management and smoking cessation.
She first graduated in pediatric and general nursing where she spent 20 years working in clinical and management roles in respiratory and cardiology. She specializes in the delivery of training in ‘Brief Interventions for Smoking Cessation’ to health professionals but her main project has been the development of ‘Tobacco Free Health Services’ in Ireland using the ENSH-Global Code and Process.