Amanda Amos
Vice-Chair
Amanda initially studied genetics at Cambridge University where she became an expert on the DNA of the tsetse fly! On moving to Edinburgh to work for the Medical Research Council, she became increasingly involved in community action on women’s health issues and decided to retrain in public health. After a couple of years working in health education in London, she moved back to Edinburgh University to take up a lectureship in health promotion. She is now Professor of Health Promotion at the Usher Institute.
She has been teaching and researching health promotion for over 30 years. Her main area of research is tobacco control, particularly issues around inequalities in smoking and young people, as well as evaluating national and local tobacco control policies. This has included young people’s sources of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, smoking in the home, school-based interventions, the national point of sale display ban and how different policies affect inequalities in smoking.
Amanda is a member of the Scottish Ministerial Working Groups on Tobacco Control and Smoking Prevention, and she is on the Board of the International Network of Women Against Tobacco (Europe). In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to public health. She joined the Board of Fast Forward in 2020.
