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Mental Health Foundation Chief Exec to lead Mental Health and Smoking Partnership

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The Mental Health and Smoking Partnership, coordinated by Action on Smoking and Health, is delighted to welcome Mark Rowland chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation as the new co-chair of the partnership. The Mental Health and Smoking Partnership is a coalition of 25 organisations that aim to reduce the disparities in smoking rates between people with and without a mental health condition.

Mark will replace outgoing co-chair Rt Hon Professor Paul Burstow who helped to establish the partnership in 2016 alongside leading addictions expert Professor Ann McNeill, King’s College London. Prof McNeill will continue as co-chair.

Mark will bring his wide range of expertise on mental health to support the work of the partnership. Mark is a non-executive director of the foundation’s subsidiary, Mental Health at Work and sits on the Government’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group and on the Advisory Group for the Royal College of Psychiatry’s Public Mental Health Implementation Centre.

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