Section: Social Policy

Jeff Collin

Name
Dr Jeff Collin
Title
Director, Global Public Health Unit
Organisation
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
2.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44 (0)131-650-3886
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_policy/jeff_collin
Jeff

Background Information

Jeff Collin is the director of the Global Public Health Unit. A political scientist by background, he was previously based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Research Interests

His research currently focuses on globalisation and tobacco control. Using corporate documents disclosed following litigation, this work analyses attempts by transnational tobacco companies to influence the public policy process, particularly in developing countries.

Additional research interests include developments in global health governance and the health impacts of population mobility and of trade liberalisation.

Publications

  • Collin J , Lee K , Gilmore A. Unlocking the corporate documents of British American Tobacco : an invaluable global resource needs radically improved access. (Commentary). The Lancet, vol. 363. 2004; pp. 1746 - 7
  • Collin J. Tobacco politics. Development, vol. 47(2). 2004; pp. 91-6
  • Collin J , Gilmore A. Tobacco control, the European Union and WHO : two conventions provide opportunities to advance public health. European Journal of Public Health, vol. 12. 2002; pp. 242 - 3
  • Collin J. Think global, smoke local: transnational tobacco companies and cognitive globalisation. In: Lee K. Globalization and health: case studies. London: Palgrave; 2003.
  • Gilmore A , Collin J. The World's first international tobacco treaty. BMJ, vol. 325. 2002; pp. 846 - 7
  • Collin J. The World Cup, sport sponsorship, and health. The Lancet, 2006.
  • Collin J. The United Kingdom, globalisation and transborder health risk. The Nuffield Trust, London; 2002.
  • Collin J. The Global Economy and the tobacco pandemic. In: Lee K, Collin J. Global change and health. Milton Keys: Open University Press; 2005.
  • Collin J. Opening a global gold mine: globalization, gender and transnational tobacco companies. In: Kickbusch I, Hartwig K. Globalization, women, and health in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave; 2005.
  • Collin J , Lee K , Bissell K. Negotiating the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: the politics of global health governance. In: Wilkinson R. The global governance reader. London: Routledge; 2005.
  • Carlyle J , Collin J , Muggli M , Hurt R. Making it truly global : British American Tobacco and Formula One racing. BMJ, vol. 329. 2004; pp. 104 - 6
  • Lee K , Gilmore A , Collin J. Looking inside the Tobacco industry : Revealing insights from Guildford Depository. Addiction, vol. 99. 2004; pp. 394 - 7
  • MacKenzie R , Collin J , Sriwongcharoen K , Muggli M. If we can just stall new unfriendly legislations, the scoreboard is already in our favour: transnational tobacco companies and ingredients disclosure in Thailand.. Tobacco Control, vol. 13 (Supp II ): ii. 2004; pp. 79 - 87
  • Collin J. Globalisation, the tobacco industry and policy influence. In: Varma AK. Tobacco counters health, Vol 2: Proceedings of the 2nd World Assembly on Tobacco Counters Health. New Delhi: Macmillan India; 2002. p. 39-50.
  • Collin J , Lee K , Bissell K. Global health governance? The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Third World Quarterly, vol. 23 (2). 2002; pp. 265 - 82
  • Lee K , Collin J. Global change and health. Open University Press, Milton Keynes; 2005.
  • Lee K , Kinh H.V. , Mackenzie R , Gilmore A.B. , Collin J. Gaining access to Vietnam's cigarette market: British American Tobacco's strategy to enter 'a huge market which will become enormous'. Global Public Health, vol. 3. 2008; pp. 1-25
  • Collin J. Foreign policy case studies: tobacco control. The Nuffield Trust, London; 2005.
  • Collin J , Gilmore A. Developing Countries. In: Goodman J, Norton M, Parascandola M. Tobacco in history and culture: an encyclopedia. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons; 2004.
  • Collin J , Gilmore A. Corporate (anti)social (ir)responsibility : transnational tobacco companies and the attempted subversion of global health policy. Global Social Policy, vol. 2 (3). 2002; pp. 354 - 60
  • Collin J. Controlling the tobacco epidemic: towards a transnational response.. Insights Health, 2001; pp. 1
  • Collin J , LeGresley E , MacKenzie R , Lee K , Lawrence S. Complicity in contraband : British American Tobacco and cigarette smuggling in Asia. Tobacco Control, vol. 13 (Supp II). 2004; pp. 104 - 11
  • Lawrence S , Collin J. Competing with kreteks : transitional tobacco companies in Indonesia. Tobacco Control, vol. 13 (Supp II) : ii. 2004; pp. 96 - 103
  • Collin J , Gilmore A , McKee M. British American Tobacco's erosion of health legislation in Uzbekistan. BMJ, vol. 332. 2006; pp. 335 - 358
  • LeGresley E , Muggli M E , Patel P , Collin J , Hurt R D. British American Tobacco and the "insidious impact of illicit trade" in cigarettes across Africa. Tob. Control, vol. 17. 2008; pp. 339-346
  • Lee K , Gilmore A , Collin J. Breaking and re-entering : British American Tobacco in China 1979 - 2000. Tobacco Control, vol. 13 (Supp II) : ii. 2004; pp. 88 - 95
  • MacKenzie R , Collin J , Sopharo C. Almost a role model of what we would like to do everywhere. Tobacco Control, vol. 13 (Supp II) : ii. 2004; pp. 112 - 7
  • Collin J , Muggli M , Carlyle J , Lee K , Hurt R. A race to the death : British American Tobacco and the Chinese Grand Prix. The Lancet, vol. 364. 2004; pp. 1107
  • MacKenzie R , Collin J. . PLoS Medicine, vol. 5:12;e238. 2008; pp. 1-12

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