Updated 1 November 2009

About us

LEGAL STATUS

EndSmoking New Zealand Inc 36 Winchester St, Lyttelton, Christchurch 8082 was incorporated (Companies Office number 1791358) under the name SmokeLess New Zealand on 20 March 2006, as a charitable trust. (IRD no. 93-424-735 ). The name was changed to End Smoking New Zealand trust on 2 April 2009.

End Smoking New Zealand a registered charitable trust under the Charities Commission, on 30 June 2008, registered number CC36849.

BANK

Bank of New Zealand Newmarket , Auckland .

STAFF

There are no paid staff.

BOARD MEMBERS

1	Dr Murray Laugesen QSO MBChB FRCS FAFPHM, MCCM Dip Obst
Organisation		Managing Director, Health New Zealand Ltd
Address		36 Winchester St
		Lyttelton
		Christchurch 8082
Telephone		+64 3 3288 688 0274 884 375
Email Website		chair@endsmoking.org.nz www.healthnz.co.nz

Dr Laugesen is a registered specialist in public health medicine, with 26 years experience in tobacco control policy. He was principal medical officer behind the 1990 law which made offices and shops smokefree, and banned the advertising of tobacco products. In 1995 he founded Health New Zealand Ltd, www.healthnz.co.nz a consultancy company to reduce heart disease, cancer and smoking, by developing policy, and conducting research for agencies such as: World Health Organization (WHO), Ministry of Health, non-government societies and private sector firms.

Dr Laugesen was awarded the WHO Medal in 1998 for the creation of smokefree societies and became a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order in 2000 for public services. He is a former chair (2001-05) and honorary life member of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH NZ). He is a co-investigator for several clinical trials at the University of Auckland to test improved methods to stop smoking, and principal investigator for a trial in Christchurch. Dr Laugesen has published over 20 papers in peer- reviewed medical journals, and has no financial ties with the tobacco industry.

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2.	Trish Fraser MPH
Organisation		Global Public Health
Address		Glenorchy
		Queenstown
		9350
Telephone		09 377-1846
Email Website		tfraser@global-public-health.com www.global-public-health.com

Trish Fraser was director of ASH NZ from 1997 to 2003, culminating in enactment of the Bill to end indoor smoking in all workplaces and bars, and the award of a WHO trophy to ASH. She has 13 years experience in tobacco control at district and national level. Her Master of Public Health thesis was on removal of nicotine from cigarettes.

Since 2003 she has managed the implementation of the Auckland region’s district health boards’ policy of smokefree hospitals and grounds in the Auckland region (population 1.2 million), and the provision of the SmokeStop programme to staff and patients. Trish Fraser has her own consultancy company Global Public Health, with clients in the UK and New Zealand. In 2006, Ms Fraser was principal investigator for SmokeStop, and held a Ministry of Health contract coordinating the review of national smoking cessation guidelines. In 2007-8 she was funded by the Bloomberg Foundation to work for The Union in China, to make Beijing hospitals smokefree. She has no financial ties with the tobacco industry.

3	Professor Sir John Scott KBE BMedSci, MBChB, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FRSNZ
	Emeritus Professor of Medicine
University	University of Auckland
Address	64 Temple St
	Meadowbank
	Auckland City 1005

Sir John Scott was one of the founders of the Auckland Medical School.

He chaired the NZ Drug Foundation which played a key role around 1990 in supporting the legislated ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship. He chaired the department of medicine at the University of Auckland 1979-87, and became a Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1987 for services to medicine. Sir John is recognized by his peers as a distinguished scientist, and is a Fellow and past president of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has no financial ties to the tobacco industry.

4	Professor Ross McCormick MBChB PhD FRNZCGP, FAChAM
University	Associate Dean (Postgraduate) Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland
Address	Private Bag 92019, Auckland City

Professor Ross McCormick  is a specialist in Addiction Medicine and immediate past chair of the New Zealand Branch of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He is Associate Dean (Postgraduate) of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland. Professor McCormick has 29 years experience in working with people affected by alcohol, and drug addictions including tobacco. He has published widely especially about the primary care management of alcohol and drug problems. He has no links with the tobacco industry.

5	Dr Marewa Glover PhD MSocSci (Hons) Dip Comm Psych		Dr Marewa Glover
Affiliation		Ngā Puhi
		Director, Centre for Tobacco Control Research
University		University of Auckland
Address		School of Population Health
		Tamaki Campus
		Private Bag 92019 Auckland City.

Dr Glover specialises in kaupapa Māori health research methodology and inductive qualitative analysis methods. Her core speciality is Tobacco Control, with the specific focus of reducing Māori smoking and improving Māori health. She has worked for fifteen years at a policy, health promotion and advocacy level and more recently in evaluation and research. She has participated in numerous advisory panels and committees to develop an infrastructure to support the New Zealand Tobacco Control community and promote workforce development within it.

Dr Glover is currently Director of the University of Auckland-based Centre for Tobacco Control Research. She is Principal Investigator on two research projects, Keeping Kids Smokefree and WhyKwit: Why and How Kiwis Stop Smoking. She is also coordinator for New Zealand’s first postgraduate paper in Tobacco Control. She has no financial ties with the tobacco industry.

Dr Murray Laugesen QSO chair; Prof Ross McCormick, Sir John Scott KBE, Trish Fraser MPH, Dr Marewa Glover, Trustees

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