Ann McNeill

Ann Denise McNeill is a British academic and tobacco policy expert. She was a professor of Tobacco Addiction in the National Addictions Centre at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and deputy director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.

McNeill has devoted her career to reducing the harmfulness of smoking to individuals and society and has worked in prevention, cessation and harm reduction, in particular how to reduce the health inequalities caused by smoking.

Early life and education Mc Neil graduated from the University of Nottingham with a 1st class joint honours degree in Psychology and Zoology, McNeill began her career in addictions research with a PhD in the development of dependence in adolescent smokers at the University of London.

Career McNeill worked in a quasi-governmental agency and as a freelance consultant whilst holding honorary academic positions at St George's Hospital Medical School and University College London.

In 2005, she was appointed Professor of Health and Policy Promotion in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Nottingham.

McNeill was the Professor of Tobacco Addiction in the National Addictions Centre at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and deputy director for tobacco of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.

She was the lead author of a 2015 report E - cigarettes: an Evidence Update commissioned by Public Health England.

Honours and awards In 1998, McNeill was awarded the World Health Organization World No Tobacco Day Tobacco Control medal.

In 2019, McNeill was recognised as key leading female figure and role model in the addictions field, discussing her life and influences in a short film made about her for the Society for the Study of Addiction.