Awards

Michael Russell Award 2024: Colin Mendelsohn

Michael Russell Award 2024: Colin Mendelsohn

Colin Mendelsohn worked as a medical practitioner, academic and researcher in smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction for 40 years. He is the Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm ...


Michael Russell Award 2023: Gerry Stimson

Michael Russell Award 2023: Gerry Stimson

Professor Gerry Stimson is a public health sociologist, with over 40 years’ experience of public health research and advocacy.One of the founders of drugs harm reduction in the 1980s, he was an in...


Michael Russell Award 2022: Brad Rodu

Michael Russell Award 2022: Brad Rodu

The Winner of the 2022 Michael Russell Award – Professor Brad Rodu Brad Rodu is a professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, and senior scientist at its James Graham...


Michael Russell Award 2019: David Abrams

Michael Russell Award 2019: David Abrams

The Winner of the 2019 Michael Russell Award – Professor David B. Abrams David Abrams is a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at New York University.He holds a Ba...


Michael Russell Award 2018: Dr Lars Ramström

Michael Russell Award 2018: Dr Lars Ramström

The Winner of the 2018 Michael Russell Award – Dr Lars Ramström It has often been remarked that Sweden provides a unique case study of the impact of snus on smoking. Sweden is the only coun...