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'''Judith Longstaff Mackay''', [[Silver Bauhinia Star|SBS]], [[OBE]], [[Justice of the Peace|JP]], [[Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]] (Edin), FRCP (Lon) (born 1943 in Yorkshire, England) is a British-born and Hong Kong–based medical doctor and international [[tobacco control]] advocate who has led a campaign against tobacco in Asia from 1984 onwards, campaigning for tax increases to discourage [[youth smoking]], for the creation of smoke-free areas, and against tobacco promotion. Her main interests are tobacco in low-income countries, women and tobacco, and challenging the transnational tobacco companies.

== Education ==
Mackay completed her medical training in Edinburgh and is now a [[Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians]] of Edinburgh and London. Mackay holds professorships at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in [[Beijing]], the School of Public Health at the [[University of Hong Kong]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ashscotland.org.uk/ash/6825.html|title=ASH Scotland congratulates tobacco campaigner Prof Judith Mackay on lifetime achievement award|year=2009|publisher=ASH Scotland |accessdate=25 May 2009}}</ref> and the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]]. 

== Career ==
Following a career in hospital medicine, since 1989 Mackay has been the Executive Director of the Hong Kong–based Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/first-person-i-fought-the-tobacco-industry-1680100.html|title=First person: 'I fought the tobacco industry'|last=Philby|first=Charlotte|date=9 May 2009|work=Upfront column|publisher=The Independent Magazine|accessdate=25 May 2009 | location=London}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.world-heart-federation.org/publications/heart-beat-e-newsletter/heart-beat-februarymarchapril-2009/in-this-issue/judith-mackaylifetime-achievement-award/|title=Judith Mackay receives lifetime Achievement Award|date=February 2009|publisher=World Heart Federation|accessdate=25 May 2009}}</ref> Mackay is a Senior Policy Advisor to the [[World Health Organization]].<ref>Friends of IARC: Dr Judith Mackay. https://www.iarc.who.int/friends-of-iarc/dr-judith-mackay</ref> From 2006 to 2020 she was Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies, part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use in Low and Middle-income countries. While still based in Hong Kong, she is currently Special Advisor on Article 5.3 Implementation, WHO FCTC Secretariat's Knowledge Hub on Article 5.3 School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Thailand. 

She has published more than 240 papers and spoken at nearly 600 conferences on public health, especially tobacco control, and serves as advisor or on the board of many international health organisations, for example Patron, Clear the Air; Hon Consultant, Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong SAR; Vice Chair, Editorial Advisory Board, "Tobacco Control" journal. She feels passionately about converting health statistics into maps and graphics, and has authored or co-authored 12 atlases, most published by [[Myriad Editions]].<ref>Myriad Editions. Judith Mackay. https://myriadeditions.com/creator/judith-mackay</ref>  

==Awards==
In 1988 she was awarded the World Health Organization Commemorative Medal, in 1989 the US Surgeon General's medallion, and in 1992 the APACT Presidential Award. In 2000 she was selected by her peers for the Luther Terry Award for Outstanding Individual Leadership. In 2006 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT), the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong government, and the 60 Asian Heroes Award by ''[[TIME Magazine]]''. In 2007 she received the [[Time 100]] award for her work, in 2008 an OBE from Queen Elizabeth, and in 2009 the first-ever ''[[BMJ|British Medical Journal]]'' award for lifetime achievement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.world-heart-federation.org/publications/heart-beat-e-newsletter/heart-beat-februarymarchapril-2009/in-this-issue/judith-mackaylifetime-achievement-award/|title=Judith Mackay receives lifetime Achievement Award|date=February 2009|publisher=World Heart Federation|accessdate=25 May 2009}}</ref> She has received an award from His Majesty the King of Thailand for her work in Tobacco Control.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615754_1615884,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505050647/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1615754_1615884,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2007|title=Time 100 -HEROES & PIONEERS|last=Wigand|first=Jeffrey |work=Time Magazine|accessdate=25 May 2009 | date=3 May 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Parry|first=Jane |date=27 April 2009|title=Judith Mackay: brandishing a sword for health|journal=British Medical Journal|issue=BMJ 2009;338:b1689 |url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/apr27_1/b1689|pmid=19398477|doi=10.1136/bmj.b1689|volume=338|pages=b1689|s2cid=35943157 }}</ref> In 2010, her work was profiled by CNN.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/07/07/talkasia.judith.mackay.cnn | work=CNN | title=CNN.com Video}}</ref> In 2015 she received an honorary degree, Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa, from Hong Kong Shue Yan University. In 2016 she received an honorary degree, Doctor honoris causa, from the [[University of Edinburgh]], Scotland, her alma mater.
She has been named as one of the three most dangerous people in the world by the tobacco industry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2009_15_fri.shtml|title=Judith Mackay |date=17 April 2009 |work=Woman's Hour|publisher=BBC|accessdate=25 May 2009}}</ref>

==Publications==
*''The State of Health Atlas''. [[Myriad Editions]]; Simon and Schuster 1993. English and American editions (Simon and Schuster); German (Dietz); French (Editions Autrement); Swedish (Bokskogen) [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227090022/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Health Health Atlas]
*''The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227090414/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Human-Sexual-Behavior Myriad Editions]; Penguin, 2000; (and in French and German)
*''The Tobacco Atlas'' (with Dr Michael Eriksen). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227090436/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Tobacco Myriad Editions]; World Health Organization, 2002, {{ISBN|92-4-156209-9}}
*''The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke'' (with Dr George A. Mensah). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227090026/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Heart-Disease Myriad Editions]; World Health Organization, 2004, {{ISBN|92-4-156276-5}}
*''The Tobacco Atlas'', 2nd edn (with Dr Michael Eriksen, Dr Omar Shafey). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227090436/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Tobacco Myriad Editions]; American Cancer Society, 2006, {{ISBN|0-944235-58-1}}
*''The Cancer Atlas'' (with Ahmedin Jemal, Nancy Lee, Maxwell Parkin). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227090354/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Cancer Myriad Editions]; American Cancer Society, 2006, {{ISBN|0-944235-62-X}}
*''The Tobacco Atlas'', 3rd edn (with Dr Omar Shafey, Dr Michael Eriksen, Dr Hana Ross). The American Cancer Society and [[World Lung Foundation]], 2009 
*''The Global Tobacco Surveillance System Atlas'' (with Charles W. Warren, Samira Asma, Juliette Lee, Veronica Lea). Myriad Editions; [https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/global/gtss/tobacco_atlas/index.htm Centers for Disease Control Foundation, USA], 2009
*''The Oral Health Atlas'' (with Roby Beaglehole, Habib Benzian, Jon Crail). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100906114708/http://www.myriadeditions.com/Oral-Health Myriad Editions]; FDI World Dental Federation 2009 {{ISBN|978-0-9539261-6-9}}
*''The Tobacco Atlas'', 4th edn (with Michael Eriksen and Hana Ross). The American Cancer Society and [[World Lung Foundation]], 2012
*[http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/ ''The Tobacco Atlas''], 5th edn (with Michael Eriksen, Neil Schluger, Farhad Islami Gomeshtapeh, Jeffrey Drope). The American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, 2015.
*''The GATS Atlas (Global Adult Tobacco Survey)'' (with S. Asma, S. Y. Song, L. Zhao, J. Morton, K. M. Palipudi, et al.), CDC Foundation, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2015.

==See also==
*[[Smoking in Hong Kong]]

==References==
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== External links ==

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