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Robert West is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a significant focus on behavioral health and public health applications.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these areas, their subfields of study cover:

  • General Health Professions
  • Applied Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The prominent topics featured in their research are:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Robert West has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, among them:

  • Susan Michie
  • Janna Hastings
  • Marie Johnston
  • Jamie Brown
  • Alison J. Wright

The venues in which Robert West has most often published include:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Addiction
  • BMJ
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • British Journal of Health Psychology

Examples of their recent publications are:

  • "Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission" (2020) in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes" (2021) in American Journal of Public Health
  • "Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders" (2020) in Addiction
  • "Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain 'social distancing' in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles" (2020) in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • "The concept of "fatigue" in tackling covid-19" (2020) in BMJ

Best Publications

  • The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions.

    Susan Michie;Maartje M van Stralen;Robert West

  • Smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals: an update

    Robert West;Ann McNeill;Martin Raw

  • Outcome criteria in smoking cessation trials: proposal for a common standard

    Robert West;Peter Hajek;Lindsay Stead;John Stapleton

  • Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis.

    Olga Perski;Ann Blandford;Robert West;Susan Michie

  • Global statistics on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use: 2017 status report

    Amy Peacock;Amy Peacock;Janni Leung;Sarah Larney;Sarah Larney;Samantha Colledge

  • Neuropsychiatric safety and efficacy of varenicline, bupropion, and nicotine patch in smokers with and without psychiatric disorders (EAGLES): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial

    Robert M Anthenelli;Neal L Benowitz;Robert West;Lisa St Aubin

  • A Structured Tumor-Immune Microenvironment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Revealed by Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging

    Leeat Keren;Marc Bosse;Diana Marquez;Roshan Angoshtari

  • Evaluating Digital Health Interventions: Key Questions and Approaches.

    Elizabeth Murray;Eric B. Hekler;Gerhard Andersson;Linda M. Collins

  • Developing and Evaluating Digital Interventions to Promote Behavior Change in Health and Health Care: Recommendations Resulting From an International Workshop

    Susan Michie;Lucy Yardley;Robert West;Kevin Patrick

  • Time for a change: putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to rest

    Robert West

  • The lakes of Titan

    Ellen R. Stofan;Charles Elachi;Jonathan I. Lunine;Ralf D. Lorenz

  • Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease

    Suzanne H Richards;Lindsey Anderson;Caroline E Jenkinson;Ben Whalley

  • Smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals - A guide to effective smoking cessation interventions for the health care system

    Martin Raw;Ann McNEILL;Robert West

  • Predictors of attempts to stop smoking and their success in adult general population samples: a systematic review

    Eleni Vangeli;John Stapleton;Eline Suzanne Smit;Ron Borland

  • Attempts to quit smoking and relapse: factors associated with success or failure from the ATTEMPT cohort study.

    Xiaolei Zhou;James Nonnemaker;Beth Sherrill;Alicia W. Gilsenan

  • THE CORRELATED-k METHOD FOR RADIATION CALCULATIONS IN NONHOMOGENEOUS ATMOSPHERES

    Richard Goody;Robert West;Luke Chen;David Crisp

  • Relapse prevention interventions for smoking cessation

    Peter Hajek;Lindsay F Stead;Robert West;Martin Jarvis

  • Real-world effectiveness of e-cigarettes when used to aid smoking cessation: a cross-sectional population study

    Jamie Brown;Emma Beard;Daniel Kotz;Daniel Kotz;Susan Michie

  • Nicotine, Carcinogen, and Toxin Exposure in Long-Term E-Cigarette and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Users: A Cross-sectional Study

    Lion Shahab;Maciej L. Goniewicz;Benjamin C. Blount;Jamie Brown

  • Tobacco smoking: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions.

    Robert West

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown University College London
Ann McNeill
Ann McNeill University of Adelaide
Martin J. Jarvis
Martin J. Jarvis University College London
Michael Ussher
Michael Ussher St George's, University of London
Wayne Hall
Wayne Hall University of Queensland
John Marsden
John Marsden King's College London
Richard A Williams
Richard A Williams Heriot-Watt University
Allan House
Allan House University of Leeds
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen

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