Linda Bauld
Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Doorway 1
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Linda joined the University of Edinburgh in November 2018. She previously worked at the Universities of Stirling, Bath, Glasgow and Kent. From 2014 to 2021 she combined her academic roles with serving as Cancer Research UK's cancer prevention advisor.
Linda conducts behavioural research within public health, with a particular focus on the prevention of non-communicable diseases and how research evidence informs policy. She has led studies on drug and alcohol use, inequalities in health, overweight and obesity, smoking cessation and more recently on Covid-19. She led the first study of the UK's national stop smoking services when they were established in 1998. She has also played a significant role in the monitoring and evaluation of a range of tobacco control policies, and served as the UK government's scientific adviser on tobacco control from 2006 to 2010.
From 2017-2022 she led a Global Challenges Research Fund programme to address tobacco use in Africa and South Asia involving researchers in six UK and eight overseas research organisations. She is currently Director of the SPECTRUM Consortium funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership that includes ten Universities and multiple partners from public health agencies and alliances. Visit the SPECTRUM website.
In September 2021 she was appointed as Chief Social Policy Adviser to the Scottish Government. This is a part time secondment until 2025.
Qualifications
BA (Hons), PhD, FRCPE, FRSE, FAcSS, FFPH
Responsibilities & affiliations
Professor Bauld is Co-Director, along with Professor David Weller, of the Centre for Population Health Sciences within the Usher Institute. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling and a Trustee of Diabetes UK and the Institute of Alcohol Studies. She is also a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Population Systems Medicine Board and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Institute of Population and Public Health Board. She is a former member or chair of other research committees for National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Cancer Research UK, the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the European Union.
In 2021 she was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her services to guiding public health responses to, and public understanding of, Covid-19.
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An application of PRECIS-2 to evaluate trial design in a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a community-based smoking cessation intervention for women living in disadvantaged areas of Ireland
In:
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-00969-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Behavioural support and nicotine replacement therapy for Smokeless Tobacco cessation: Protocol for a pilot randomised-controlled multi-country trial
In:
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01146-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A process evaluation of "We Can Quit": a community based smoking cessation intervention targeting women from areas of socio-disadvantage in Ireland
In:
BMC Public Health, vol. 22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13957-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Impact of public health team engagement in alcohol licensing on health and crime outcomes in England and Scotland: A comparative timeseries study between 2012-2019
In:
The Lancet Regional Health Europe, vol. 20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100450
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
E-cigarettes to Augment Stop Smoking In-person Support and Treatment with varenicline (E-ASSIST): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
In:
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac149
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for socio-economically disadvantaged women: a systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
Systematic Reviews, vol. 11, pp. 111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-01922-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Electronic cigarettes versus nicotine patches for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial
In:
Nature Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01808-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Behaviour change intervention for smokeless tobacco (ST) cessation delivered through dentists within a dental setting: a feasibility study protocol
In:
British Dental Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41405-022-00104-w
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Is it time to embed Lifestyle Medicine in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula?
In:
Lifestyle Medicine
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Accepted/In press) -
Development of a Smoke-Free Home Intervention for Families of Babies Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063670
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)