About the Authors
Omar Shafey
Dr. Omar Shafey, a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist, is managing partner at Scientific Integrity Consulting, LLC and adjunct professor of Global Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia, USA . He edited the Tobacco Control Country Profiles 2003, coauthored the second edition of The Tobacco Atlas, and has published research on smoking among women in Spain, cigarette smuggling in Brazil, and lung cancer trends among young adults in the USA.
Michael Eriksen
Dr. Michael Eriksen is Professor and founding Director of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Eriksen served as a Senior Advisor to the World Health Organization in Geneva and was Director of the CDC ’s Office on Smoking and Health, serving in this capacity from 1992 to 2000. Dr. Eriksen has published extensively on tobacco prevention and control and has served as an expert witness in litigation against the tobacco industry. He is Editor-in-Chief of Health Education Research and has been designated as a Distinguished Cancer Scholar by the Georgia Cancer Coalition. He is a recipient of the WHO Commemorative Medal on Tobacco or Health and a Presidential Citation for Meritorious Service by former President Bill Clinton. He is Past President and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education, and for thirty years he has been a member of the American Public Health Association.
Hana Ross
Dr. Hana Ross is an economist and Strategic Director of International Tobacco Control Research at the American Cancer Society. She is also Deputy Director of the International Tobacco Evidence Network (ITEN ) and an adjunct professor at both Georgia State University and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA . She has published extensively on the economics of tobacco control and is a mentor and leader for various research projects in low- and middle-income countries, including projects funded by the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the European Commission, and the Bloomberg Global Initiative. She organizes seminars and teaches economics of tobacco control at regional workshops and serves as a technical advisor to the South East Asia Tobacco Control Alliance.
Judith Mackay
Dr. Judith Longstaff Mackay is a medical doctor based in Hong Kong. She is Senior Advisor to the World Lung Foundation, Senior Policy Advisor to the World Health Organization, and Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control. She holds professorships at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing and the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. She is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and of London. After an early career as a hospital physician, she moved to preventive and public health. Dr. Mackay has received many international awards, including the WHO Commemorative Medal, Royal Awards from the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II and Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the Fries Prize for Improving Health, the Luther Terry Award for Outstanding Individual Leadership, the International Partnering for World Health Award, the Founding International Achievement Award from the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network of Women Against Tobacco. In 2007, she was selected as one of Time magazine’s 100 World’s Most Influential People. She coauthored the first two editions of The Tobacco Atlas and several other health atlases, including The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior, The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, The State of Health Atlas, and The Cancer Atlas.
