Tobacco Harm Reduction Experts:
Relevant To Australia:
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is an alliance between the Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates and their respective organisations in the region. Our mission and aim is to educate, advocate and represent the right of adult alternative nicotine consumers to access and use of products that reduce harm from tobacco use
Adjunct Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
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"We cannot stand here and say that regulation is enough, that vaping is just like cigarettes and just like alcohol, because it's not."
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Chair, Action on Smoking and Health – Action for Smokefree 2025, Ellerslie, New Zealand
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Emeritus Professor, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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"The evidence review of Banks et al, which was commissioned by a previous health Minister (Greg Hunt), was deeply flawed and is not fit for purpose to inform evidence based policy as demonstrated in a peer-reviewed paper I co-authored"
Senior Lecturer (Addiction), Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
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Hon Professor, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria Australia
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Professor of Public Health, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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His graduate degree is from Sydney University (MB, BS) and has a Fellowship of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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Addiction Medicine Specialist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; Conjoint Professor, Discipline of Addiction Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney
Professorial Fellow, Nossal Institute, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
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Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of New South Wales & St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Co-Program Director, Disease Elimination, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Adjunct Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"'the prohibition model, particularly as it's currently being operated, is not working"
Dr. Marewa Glover is a Maori behavioural scientist, and the founder and director of the Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking
Service Director and Staff Specialist, Drug Health Services, WSLHD, Sydney, Australia (not the view of employer, NSW Health)
"we have created a barrier to entry for those wanting to easily switch from smoking to vaping, undermining the health and safety of Australians"
Addiction Medicine Specialist, Northern NSW LHD, Lismore NSW, Australia
Addiction Medicine Specialist, Monash Health, Melbourne Australia
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An epidemiologist and biostatistician working in Environmental Health at the School of Public Health.
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Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University; Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Chairman, Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association, Sydney, Australia
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Director, Centre for Cancer Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute and Director at 360Edge, Curtain University
Conjoint Professor, Specialty Addiction Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Lecturer & Clinical Psychologist, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Brad McKay is a New Zealand born Australian doctor, science communicator and author.
Health behaviour change expert with a special interest in tobacco and obesity. NDRAC UNSW Sydney,
Addiction Medicine Specialist, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Professor and Program Head, Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
Dr James Martin - Criminolgist
Not so much a stakeholder rather a key observer of all matters that relate to criminology when it comes to the effects of Govt policy.
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Former Deputy Director-General, Strategic Development, NSW Health; former CEO NSW Justice Health; Sydney, Australia
“A more consumer-friendly regulatory model with government support could dramatically reduce smoking rates in Australia”
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Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Dr Jody Moller leads cutting-edge research on the chemical analysis of vaping products in Australia.
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A/Head of Drug and Alcohol Department, Central Coast Local Health District, Lake Haven, Australia
Executive Director, We Help Ourselves (WHOS), Director of WHOS International, Sydney, Australia
Director Drug Policy Modelling Program, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Senior Staff Specialist, Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincents’ Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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School Of Pharmacy Faculty of Health and Behavoural Sciences, The University Of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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Conjoint Professor, the Kirby Institute, UNSW; Addiction Medicine Specialist, Sydney, Australia
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Dr Alex Wodak AM - Former director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, 1982-2012
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General Practitioner; Parliamentary Leader of Legalise Cannabis WA, Parliament House Perth, Australia
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Associate Professor in Population Health and Associate Director, Centre for Addiction Research, National Institute for Health Innovation, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Physician, Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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