Dr Ross MacKenzie is a Sydney-based public health researcher. He is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales, a Distance Learning Tutor with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and an affiliated researcher with the Global Tobacco Control Research Programme at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Research areas include operations of the global tobacco industry; e-cigarettes and vaping; global health governance; tobacco control; the medicalisation of smoking cessation; environmental impacts of tobacco use; and the role of the media in health policy and advocacy.
He has previously worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London); the School of Public Health University of Sydney; Macquarie University; Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Thailand; and Cancer Council NSW.