Judith Mackay

Judith Longstaff Mackay (born 1943, Yorkshire, England) is a British-born and Hong Kong–based medical doctor and anti-smoking advocate who led a campaign against tobacco in Asia from 1984 onwards, campaigning for tax increases to discourage youth smoking, for the creation of smoke-free areas, and against tobacco promotion. Her main interests are tobacco in low income countries, tobacco promotion aimed at women, and challenging the transnational tobacco companies.

She completed her medical training in Edinburgh and is now a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and London. She holds professorships at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing and the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.^[1] She is a Senior Policy Advisor to World Health Organization (WHO) She worked unpaid for 20 years devoting herself to Tobacco Control matters. In 1989 she started the Hong Kong–based Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control.^[2] In 2007 she received the Time 100 award for her work, in 2008 an OBE from Queen Elizabeth, and in 2009 the first-ever British Medical Journal award for lifetime achievement. She has received an award from His Majesty the King of Thailand for her work in Tobacco Control.^[3][4] Currently she works for World Lung Foundation component of the Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries.^[5] In 2010, her work was profiled by CNN.^[6]

She has been named as one of the three most dangerous people in the world by the tobacco industry.^[7] She plays golf and practices taichi, her favourite being the 56-sword programme.

Publications

• The State of Health Atlas Sole Author: Judith Mackay. Myriad Editions, published by Simon and Schuster 1993. English and American Editions (Simon and Schuster); German (Dietz); French (Editions Autrement); Swedish (Bokskogen) Health Atlas
• The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior Sole Author: Judith Mackay. Myriad Editions, published by Penguin, 2000; (and in French and German) Human Sexual Behavior Atlas
• The Tobacco Atlas co-author with Dr Michael Eriksen, Dr. Omar Shafey. Myriad Editions, published by World Health Organization, 2002 ISBN 9241562099 Tobacco Atlas
• The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke co-author with Dr George A. Mensah. Myriad Editions, published by World Health Organization, 2004 ISBN 92 4 156276 8 Heart Disease Atlas
• The Tobacco Atlas (2nd ed). co-author with Dr Michael Eriksen, Omar Shafey. Myriad Editions, published by American Cancer Society, 2006 ISBN 0-944235-58-1 Tobacco Atlas
• The Cancer Atlas co-author with Ahmedin Jemal, Nancy Lee, Max Parkin. Myriad Editions, published by American Cancer Society, 2006 ISBN 0-944235-62-X Cancer Atlas
• The Tobacco Atlas (3rd ed) co-author with Dr Omar Shafey, Dr Michael Eriksen and Hana Ross. Published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, 2009 Tobacco Atlas
• The Global Tobacco Surveillance System Atlas co-author with Charles W. Warren, Samira Asma, Juliette Lee, Veronica Lea. Myriad Editions, published by the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, USA, 2009 Global Tobacco Surveillance System Atlas
• The Oral Health Atlas co-author with Roby Beaglehole, Habib Benzian, Jon Crail. Myriad Editions, published by FDI World Dental Federation 2009 ISBN 978-0-9539261-6-9 (launch Sept 2009) Oral Health Atlas

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