Professor of Health Education and Behavioral Science,
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, USA

Jonathan Foulds, PhD, obtained a First-Class Honors degree in psychology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK, before training as a clinical psychologist at the University of Glasgow. Dr Foulds has been conducting research on tobacco for over 16 years, having worked at the world-renowned tobacco research group at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, UK, and St George's Hospital Medical School in London where he became the UKs first "Lecturer in Tobacco Addiction". While at St George's, Dr Foulds was an investigator in the world's first randomized trial to directly compare nicotine patch, gum, inhaler, and nasal spray, and also a large randomized trial of brief smoking cessation advice in pregnant women. He became technical leader of a World Health Organization project to improve the regulation of tobacco dependence treatment in Europe, and also became Director of Research for the charity, Quit, which ran the largest telephone helpline for smokers in the world at that time.

Dr Foulds came to the School of Public Health at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in the United States in 2000 to be the Director of the Tobacco Dependence Program. In 2004, Dr Foulds was elected to be Vice President of the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco use and Dependence. While most of his work has focused on treatment for addicted smokers, he has also addressed such topics as the measurement of passive smoke exposure, the uptake of smoking in young people, the effects of nicotine on mental performance, and the health effects of tobacco products. He has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals.