Lifetime Achievement 2009 winner

Professor Judith Longstaff Mackay, Senior Adviser to the World Lung Foundation

The Lifetime Achievement award goes to a tireless and courageous campaigner on behalf of patients and public health care.

Professor Mackay has been based in Hong Kong since 1967, and worked as a hospital physician until 1984.Then she started campaigning against the tobacco industry in Asia and was labelled “one of the three most dangerous people in the world” by the industry five years later.

She is a consultant to the World Health Organisation and was instrumental in developing the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which places governments under international obligation to implement tobacco control policies.
Currently she works for the World Lung Foundation component of the Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use in low and middle income countries.