Christopher Russell, Ph.D. is a psychologist and Director of Russell Burnett Research &

Consultancy Ltd (RBRC), a contract research organization that specializes in the design,

conduct, and reporting of perception and behavioral studies of the potential population health

risks and benefits of candidate tobacco harm reduction (THR) products, such as ENDS,

heated tobacco products, and modern oral tobacco products. RBRC designs studies to

characterize adults’ use and perceptions of new tobacco products, longitudinal tobacco

product use transitions, and understanding of product labels, labelling, and marketing

materials. Results of these studies help to inform PMTA, MRTPA, and other applicable

regulatory assessments of the potential impact of candidate THR products on future tobacco

use behavior and population health.

Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH, is a physician and senior researcher specialising in Public Health at the Universities of Patras and West Attica in Greece. He has conducted extensive research on smoking, tobacco harm reduction, and vaping since 2011, publishing over 90 studies and articles. Notably, he authored the first systematic review on the safety and risk profile of e-cigarettes in 2014; his research was influential in shaping the EU’s regulatory framework on vaping. In 2020, he was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher for his significant impact in global science. During the pandemic, he published studies exploring the relationship between smoking, nicotine, and COVID-19.

Dr Roberto A Sussman (PhD University of London) is a full time senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Nuclear Sciences of the National University of Mexico. His main research areas are General Relativity and Cosmology, but he has conducted research in other areas of Physics, including peer reviewed publications on e-cigarette aerosols. He is also the founder and Director of Pro-Vapeo Mexico, an association representing Mexican consumers of noncombustible nicotine products and is a member of INNCO. He is actively advocating for an appropriate regulation of Tobacco Harm Reduction products in Mexico. He directs and supervises the effort to spread scientific information on these products, as well as advising consumers on how to counter the governmental misinformation and prejudice about them that is rampant throughout Latin America.