Anna Gilmore

Professor of Public Health, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Anna Gilmore is Professor of Public Health, Co-Director of the Centre for 21st Century Public Health and founding Director of the award winning Tobacco Control Research Group  (TCRG) at the University of Bath. TCRG established and runs the ground-breaking knowledge exchange platform www.TobaccoTactics.org and is the research partner in STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog.

Her work focuses on the commercial determinants of health and evaluates the impacts of public policies on health. It has led to substantial policy impacts from local to global level recognised through numerous awards including the WHO World No Tobacco Day Medal (2008), Public Health Advocacy Institute Award (2009), the inaugural European Health Leadership Award (2019) for ‘pioneering change makers’ and a Special Recognition Award from the WHO Director General (2021). Anna has over 350 publications, is a member of various international expert groups including the WHO’s international expert group on the Commercial Determinants of Health.