Robert Beaglehole - Emeritus Professor

Robert Beaglehole trained in medicine, epidemiology and public health in New Zealand, England and the USA before becoming a public health physician. He was Professor of Community Health at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (1988-1999).

He joined the staff of the World Health Organization in 2000 and between 2004 and 2007 directed the Department of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion. He left WHO in February 2007 having reached the UN retirement age and returned to New Zealand.

He is now an independent global public health practitioner with a focus on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland and chairs the Lancet NCD Action Group.

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9 February 2025 - Australia Vs NZ Study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39924453/

If the association is causal, New Zealand's less restrictive approach to vaping (compared with Australia's more restrictive approach) may have contributed to a more rapid decline in adult smoking, and reduced social inequalities and Indigenous smoking, but at the possible expense of increased youth vaping.

18 July 2023

Co-signee to "Urgent vaping law reform needed in Australia" that endorsed concerns of the 

Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD), that the prescription policy is failing and that the Minister's proposed vaping crackdown will only make things worse.

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5 November 2020 - Select Committee on Tobacco Harm Reduction