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UCL DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE |
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Professor Martin Jarvis Biographical Details Martin Jarvis is a clinical psychologist whose research interests are in behavioural and psychological aspects of tobacco dependence. For many years he was based at the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, since 1989 as a member of the Cancer Research UK's Health Behaviour Unit. He joined the department, together with rest of the Unit, in February 1996, at which time he was appointed as Reader in Addiction. Research Interests The Unit's research into tobacco dependence has a number of strands, including treatment methods, association with cognition, mood and performance, and smokers' responses to different tobacco products. The underlying theme is an attempt to develop a better understanding of the role of nicotine in driving smoking behaviour, against the background of the many social and economic influences affecting cigarette smoking. Areas of current interest include the contribution of nicotine dependence to the widening socioeconomic gulf in smoking prevalence and cessation rates, and hence to health inequalities: and the close association of cigarette smoking with adverse mood states in the population. Both of these involve secondary analysis of data gathered on large nationally representative samples; other work is on smokers recruited for laboratory experiments or seeking help to stop smoking. PUBLICATIONS This page last modified 25 May, 2010 by Mark Livermore |
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CONTACT DETAILS Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 1922 Internal: x41922 Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 2848 Email: martin.jarvis@ucl.ac.uk Postal address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK Office: Room 235, 1-19 Torrington Place, WC1E 7HB |
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