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Neil McKeganey is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with particular work in physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, applied psychology, molecular biology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of Neil McKeganey's work include smoking behavior and cessation, behavioral health and interventions, obesity, physical activity, diet, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, risk perception and management, air quality and health impacts, and phytochemicals and antioxidant activities.

Neil McKeganey has published research in a variety of venues, with several frequent publication outlets:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • American Journal of Health Behavior
  • Harm Reduction Journal
  • Preprints.org
  • Drugs Education Prevention and Policy

Some of their recent publications include:

  • The Adult JUUL Switching and Smoking Trajectories (ADJUSST) Study: Methods and Analysis of Loss-to-Follow-up, 2021, American Journal of Health Behavior
  • Awareness of the presence of nicotine in the JUUL Brand of e-cigarette among adolescents, young adults, and older adults in the United States, 2020, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy
  • When it comes to assessing the impact of e-cigarettes, estimates of device prevalence matter: the BIDI Stick disposable device, 2023, Harm Reduction Journal
  • Perceptions of the Harms of E-Cigarettes, Combustible Cigarettes, and Other Substances Among Adults Who Smoke in the UK: A Mixed Methods Study, 2023, Research Square (Research Square)
  • E-cigarettes and Older Adults who Smoke: A Missed Opportunity to Further Reduce Harm?, 2025, American Journal of Health Behavior

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gabriel Barnard
  • Andrea Patton
  • Farhana Haseen
  • Sophie Notley
  • Joanne Coyle

Best Publications

  • Sex work on the streets : prostitutes and their clients

    Neil P. McKeganey;Marina Barnard

  • Addicts' narratives of recovery from drug use: constructing a non-addict identity.

    James McIntosh;Neil McKeganey

  • The impact of parental problem drug use on children: what is the problem and what can be done to help?

    Marina Barnard;Neil McKeganey

  • AIDS, drugs, and sexual risk : lives in the balance

    Neil P. McKeganey;Marina Barnard

  • The Rise and Rise of Peer Education Approaches

    Steve Parkin;Neil McKeganey

  • Musical preference as an indicator of adolescent drug use

    Alasdair J. M. Forsyth;Marina Barnard;Neil P. McKEGANEY

  • What are drug users looking for when they contact drug services: abstinence or harm reduction?

    Neil McKeganey;Zoë Morris;Joanne Neale;Michele Robertson

  • Female streetworking prostitution and HIV infection in Glasgow

    N McKeganey;M Barnard;A Leyland;I Coote

  • Paying the Price for their Parents' Addiction: meeting the needs of the children of drug-using parents

    Neil McKeganey;Marina Barnard;James McIntosh

  • Identity and Recovery from Dependent Drug Use: the addict's perspective

    James McIntosh;Neil McKeganey

  • Mortality among injecting drug users: a critical reappraisal.

    M Frischer;M Bloor;D Goldberg;J Clark

  • Estimating the Population Prevalence of Injection Drug Use and Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus among Injection Drug Users in Glasgow, Scotland

    Martin Frischer;Alastair Leyland;Richard Cormack;David J. Goldberg

  • Prostitution and HIV: what do we know and where might research be targeted in the future?

    Neil P. McKeganey

  • Spotting the invisible man: The influence of male gender on fieldwork relations.

    Neil McKeganey;Michael Bloor

  • Changing patterns of first e-cigarette flavor used and current flavors used by 20,836 adult frequent e-cigarette users in the USA

    Christopher Russell;Neil McKeganey;Tiffany Dickson;Mitchell Nides

  • Readings in medical sociology

    Sarah Cunningham-Burley;Neil P. McKeganey

  • Abstinence and drug abuse treatment: Results from the Drug Outcome Research in Scotland study

    Neil McKeganey;Michael Bloor;Michele Robertson;Joanne Neale

  • Quantitative and qualitative research in the addictions: an unhelpful divide

    Neil McKeganey

  • HIV‐Related Risk Practices among Glasgow Male Prostitutes: Refraining Concepts of Risk Behavior

    Michael J. Bloor;Marina A. Barnard;Andrew Finlay;Neil P. McKeganey

  • Why do men buy sex and what are their assessments of the HIV-related risks when they do?

    N McKeganey

  • AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care.@@@AIDS, Drugs and Sexual Risk: Lives in the Balance.

    Kim M. Blankenship;Nicholas Dorn;Sheila Henderson;Nigel South

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bloor
Michael Bloor Cardiff University
Joanne Neale
Joanne Neale King's College London
Alastair H. Leyland
Alastair H. Leyland University of Glasgow
Patrick M. Flynn
Patrick M. Flynn Texas Christian University
Roselind Lieb
Roselind Lieb University of Basel
D. Dwayne Simpson
D. Dwayne Simpson Texas Christian University
Carlos Roncero
Carlos Roncero University of Salamanca
Icro Maremmani
Icro Maremmani University of Pisa

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