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Currently, I work as a part of Quit Well Newham community service to provide tobacco cessation support throughout the borough. Our Stop Smoking service is part of a larger umbrella service covering the three major boroughs in Northeast London and is a part of the Health and Lifestyle Research Unit at the Centre for the Public Health and Policy.
I am a former dentist transitioning into public health aiming to deliver evidence-based care and streamlining the hospital setting to community service pathways to ensure continuation of care. I have successfully developed and delivered training programs for the ‘Youth vaping and social welfare alliance,’ and “Smoking in pregnancy” which tackles the raising youth vaping in Newham and supports resistant pregnant smokers respectively. I enjoy supporting trainings and problem-based learning facilitations with the centre, also contributing to the strategizing and service delivery part of the project with an aim to make the borough smoke free by 2030. Since its inception Quit well Newham has contributed to reducing the smoking rates in the borough to 11% (currently) lower than the London average of 13%.