Professor Richard Edwards

Professor Richard Edwards is the Head of Public Health of the College of Medicine & Public Health at Flinders University. He is an internationally recognised public health practitioner and researcher with a particular focus on research into tobacco control policy and 'endgame' strategies for the smoking epidemic. Richard trained in the UK in Medicine and Public Health, and held posts at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Manchester, before moving to the Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand where he co-founded the ASPIRE Aotearoa Research Centre. His main research interests are in tobacco use epidemiology, tobacco endgames, and tobacco control policy. He focuses particularly on research to help achieve an end to significant tobacco use. He is co-principal investigator on the New Zealand arm of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Evaluation project and President Elect of the Oceania branch of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).

Institutional webpage: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/richard.edwards