Dr Anna Gilmore MBBS, DTM&H, MSc, MFPHM

Anna Gilmore qualified in medicine in London in 1991. She is currently a Senior Registrar in Public Health in the South West Region (where my work has focused on multiagency working to reduce in equalities in health and the use of routine data for public health) and an honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Her current research interests include:

• Current and historical epidemiological patterns of tobacco use
• Tobacco control and policy influences
• Epidemiology and prevention of meningococcal disease
• Partnership working particularly around inequalities in health

My tobacco control interests are focused largely on Europe and the former Soviet Union. I am involved in work on tobacco control policy in the European Union, surveys on health and tobacco consumption in 8 former Soviet countries and analysis of internal industry documents to explore the tactics and influence of the tobacco industry on tobacco control policy making.

I am also interested in the quality of public health training, and have developed guidelines and audit tools for training in public health.

Recent peer reviewed publications include:

Gilmore A, Best L, Milne R. Methylphenidate in children with hyperactivity. Development & Evaluation Committee Report No. 78. Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development. 1998.

Gilmore A, Stuart J, Andrews N. The risk of secondary meningococcal disease in health care workers in England and Wales. Lancet 2000;356:1654-5

Gilmore A. Joint working, reality or rhetoric? Journal of Public Health Medicine 2001;23 (1): 5-6.

Gilmore A, Milne R. Methylphenidate in children with hyperactivity: a review of effectiveness and cost effectiveness. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2001; 10: 85-94.

Stuart J, Gilmore A, Ross A, Patterson W, Kroll S, Kacamarski E, McQueen S, Keady P, Monk P. Prophylaxis for health care workers exposed to cases of meningococcal disease: recommendations of a Working Group of the PHLS Meningococcus Forum. Communicable Disease and Public Health 2001;4:102-105.

Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R. Smoking in Belarus: evidence from a household survey. European Journal of Epidemiology 2001;17:245-53.

Gilmore A, McKee M, Telishevska M, Rose R. Epidemiology of smoking in Ukraine. Preventive Medicine 2001;33:453-461

Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R. Determinants of inequalities in self-perceived health in Ukraine: a neglected former Soviet Republic (in press). Social Science and Medicine.

Gilmore A, McKee M. Tobacco control policies in the European Union. Clinical Medicine (in press)

Book chapters

Gilmore A, McKee M. Tobacco policy in the European Union. In Tobacco Control and the Liberal State: The Legal, Ethical and Policy Debate. Bayer R, Feldman E (eds). (Forthcoming).

Other publications

Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R, Telishevska M. Determinants of smoking and health in Belarus and Ukraine. Studies in Public Policy no. 348. Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, 2001.

Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R. Determinants of inequalities in self-perceived health in Ukraine. J Epidemiol Community Health 2001, Societies Individuals and Populations, Joint Conference of the Society for Social Medicine and the International Epidemiological Association European Group: A2

Gilmore A, McKee M. Report to the European Working Group of the Royal College of Physicians. Tobacco control in the European Union. 2001.

Gilmore A, Stuart J, Cartwright K, Patterson W. Meningococcal disease in healthcare workers: recommendation will cause unease among health care staff. [letter] BMJ 2000;320:247-8.

Gilmore A, Morkane A, Pearson V. Clinical Governance, an opportunity to improve training. [letter] Public Health Medicine March 2000; 2:45.