Webinar on September 8: The Epidemiology and Treatment of Smoking in People with Mental Illness.

Thursday, September 8, 2022, 12pm to 1pm EDT
Gemma Taylor, PhD Dr. Gemma Taylor is a Reader at the University of Bath, and a Cancer Research UK Population Researcher Fellow. Gemma is an epidemiologist and behavioural scientist, and her research covers three main areas: 1) disentangling the causal nature of the association between smoking tobacco and mental health, 2) identifying intervention targets using experimental and epidemiological methods, and 3) co-design and testing smoking cessation interventions for use in NHS psychological services. Gemma's expertise are evidenced by prestigious awards from BMJ, Welcome Trust, International Society for Behavioural Medicine, Society for the Study of Addiction, and the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine. Gemma has also published her academic research in peer-reviewed journals including BMJ, Lancet Psychiatry, International Journal of Epidemiology and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. She is the lead author of the major 2014 study, "Change in mental health after smoking cessation: systematic review and meta-analysis" published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
 
Webinar Objectives:  

• Describe the epidemiology of smoking in people with mental illness
• Explain the three associations between smoking and mental ill-health
• Identify and describe two benefits of psychological models to treat co-morbid smoking and mental ill-health