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Biography
Tessa Langley is a health economist specialising in the field of tobacco control. She graduated with an Honours degree in Economics and Economic History from the University of Warwick in 2007 and went on to work as a Junior Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment in Vienna and as a trainee in DG Health and Consumers at the European Commission in Brussels. She completed a Masters in Public Health at the University of Nottingham in 2009 before continuing to a research role, PhD and subsequently a lectureship at UoN. She currently holds the role of Associate Professor in Health Economics.
Expertise Summary
The main focus of Tessa's research is on polices designed to reduce consumption of unhealthy commodities including tobacco, alcohol and foods high in fat, salt and sugar. Tessa has undertaken consultancy for the World Bank and Cancer Research UK and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians' Tobacco Advisory Group, which has published numerous reports on tobacco, smoking and e-cigarettes which have informed national policy in the UK. She is a Deputy Editor for the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. She currently convenes two Masters in Public Health modules and teaches on a number of other modules. She supervises PhD students undertaking research in tobacco control and a range of other public health and health economics topics. Tessa is Deputy Director of Doctoral Programmes for the School of Medicine.
Keywords:
Public health; health economics; evaluation of public health interventions; Commercial Determinants of Health
Teaching Summary
Tessa Langley is a module co-convenor and tutor for two modules on the Masters of Public Health courses (Health Economics and Planning and Evaluating Public Health Interventions). She also supervises… read more
Research Summary
Tessa Langley's research focuses on evaluating the impact of population-level tobacco control interventions on smoking behaviour and the economic impact of tobacco use, as well as other unhealthy… read more
Selected Publications
LANGLEY, T.E., HUANG, Y., MCNEILL, A., COLEMAN, T., SZATKOWSKI, L. and LEWIS, S., 2011. Prescribing of smoking cessation medication in England since the introduction of varenicline Addiction. 106(7), 1319-1324 LANGLEY, T.E., SZATKOWSKI, L., MCNEILL, A., COLEMAN, T. and LEWIS, S., 2012. Prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy to cardiovascular disease patients in England Addiction. 107(7), 1341-1348 LANGLEY, T.E., HUANG, Y., LEWIS, S., MCNEILL, A., COLEMAN, T. and SZATKOWSKI, L., 2011. Prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy to adolescents in England Addiction. 106(8), 1513-1519 LANGLEY, TESSA E, SZATKOWSKI, LISA, GIBSON, JACK, HUANG, YUE, MCNEILL, ANN, COLEMAN, TIM and LEWIS, SARAH, 2010. Validation of The Health Improvement Network (THIN) primary care database for monitoring prescriptions for smoking cessation medications. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety. 19(6), 586-90
Current Research
Tessa Langley's research focuses on evaluating the impact of population-level tobacco control interventions on smoking behaviour and the economic impact of tobacco use, as well as other unhealthy commodities such as alcohol and food that is high in fat, salt and sugar.