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Derek Yach is affiliated with the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World in the United States. Their research spans areas within medicine, with a focus on smoking behavior, public health policies, and respiratory health.

Their recent academic contributions include the following publications:

  • "Tobacco Use Patterns in Five Countries During the COVID-19 Lockdown" (2020), published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • "Applications of biomarkers of exposure and biological effects in users of new generation tobacco and nicotine products: Tentative proposals" (2023), published in Drug Testing and Analysis
  • "Understanding research gaps and priorities for tobacco harm reduction in low-income and middle-income countries" (2025), published in Ethics Medicine and Public Health
  • "WHO should embrace tobacco harm reduction to save lives" (2024), published in The Lancet

Derek Yach frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi
  • Adriana Curado
  • Gerhard Scherer
  • Sahan Lungu
  • Gülay Öke

Their works have been published across journals that include:

  • The Lancet
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • Drug Testing and Analysis
  • Ethics Medicine and Public Health
  • American Journal of Public Health

Derek Yach's research fields and subfields cover comprehensive medical topics such as:

  • Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The main topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • School Health and Nursing Education

Best Publications

  • Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

    Sarah Whitmee;Andy Haines;Chris Beyrer;Frederick Boltz

  • The global burden of chronic diseases: overcoming impediments to prevention and control.

    Derek Yach;Corinna Hawkes;C. Linn Gould;Karen J. Hofman

  • Epidemiologic and economic consequences of the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes

    Derek Yach;David Stuckler;Kelly D Brownell

  • Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases

    Abdallah S. Daar;Peter A. Singer;Deepa Leah Persad;Stig K. Pramming

  • Globalisation and the prevention and control of non-communicable disease: the neglected chronic diseases of adults.

    R Beaglehole;D Yach

  • Global health security: the wider lessons from the west African Ebola virus disease epidemic

    David L Heymann;Lincoln Chen;Keizo Takemi;David P Fidler

  • Framework convention on tobacco control

    Pekka Puska;Douglas Bettcher;Derek Yach

  • Tobacco use by youth: a surveillance report from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey project

    Charles W. Warren;Leanne Riley;Samira Asma;Michael P. Eriksen

  • Estimates of global and regional smoking prevalence in 1995, by age and sex.

    Prabhat Jha;M. Kent Ranson;Son N. Nguyen;Derek Yach

  • Do Workplace Health Promotion (Wellness) Programs Work

    Ron Z Goetzel;Rachel Mosher Henke;Maryam Tabrizi;Kenneth R Pelletier

  • Cohort Profile: Mandela's children: The 1990 birth to twenty study in South Africa

    Linda Richter;Shane Norris;John Pettifor;Derek Yach

  • The globalization of public health, I: Threats and opportunities.

    D Yach;D Bettcher

  • Trends and affordability of cigarette prices: ample room for tax increases and related health gains

    G E Guindon;S Tobin;D Yach

  • Globalisation of tobacco industry influence and new global responses

    Derek Yach;Douglas Bettcher

  • Global trade and health: key linkages and future challenges

    D W Bettcher;D Yach;G E Guindon

  • The influence of maternal cigarette smoking, snuff use and passive smoking on pregnancy outcomes: the Birth To Ten Study.

    Krisela Steyn;Thea de Wet;Yussuf Saloojee;Hannelie Nel

  • The global burden of chronic diseases.

    Yach D;Hawkes C;Gould L;Hofman Kj

  • The globalization of public health. II: The convergence of self-interest and altruism.

    D Yach;D Bettcher

  • Life course perspectives on coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes: the evidence and implications for policy and research

    Isabella A G Aboderin;Alex Kalache;Yoav Ben-Shlomo;Diana Kuh

  • WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

    Derek Yach

Frequent Co-Authors

Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes City, University of London
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Stephen Tollman
Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Jennifer Prah Ruger University of Pennsylvania
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Catherine Mathews
Catherine Mathews South African Medical Research Council
Charles D. H. Parry
Charles D. H. Parry South African Medical Research Council
Kelly D. Brownell
Kelly D. Brownell Duke University
John I. Bell
John I. Bell Ellison Institute of Technology

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