Alison Chesney and Eddie Killoran

MEMORIAL LECTURES
The public lectures are held in memory of Alison Chesney and Eddie Killoran, who both died within 6 months of one another, in 2006. Both were well known and respected figures in the drugs field over many years and are still much missed by family, friends and colleagues alike. Following their untimely deaths a number of their friends and former colleagues began discussions to determine what might be a fitting way to remember them. Their families supported the idea of an annual memorial lecture, at which they and the work they undertook might be celebrated by those who knew them and also brought to a wider audience.

Dr Marewa Glover is a New Zealand public health academic specialising in smoking cessation. She is Māori, of Ngā Puhi descent, and has worked at the University of Auckland and been a full professor at Massey University. In 2018 she set up the Centre for Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking (COREISS).

She delivered a lecture entitled "Science and evidence: the essence of good policy and practice for public health". You can watch it here.

Marewa Glover

2020

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Fiona Patten

2019

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David Wilson

2018

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Ruth Dreifuss

2017

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Harry Shapiro

2016

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Sir Harry Burns

2015

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Manuel Carballo

2014

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Michel Kazatchkine

2013

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John Ashton

2012

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Rosalie Pacula

2011

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Gerry Stimson

2010

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