Prof. Catherine O. Egbe is a Chief Specialist Scientist in the Mental health, Alcohol, Substance use & Tobacco Research Unit (MASTRU) of the South African Medical Research Council.

She holds honorary positions as Associate Professor at both the School of Public Health Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Prof. Egbe is a registered research psychologist and a public health scientist, a Senior Editor of Tobacco Control – A British Medical Journal and an alumna of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, a World Health Organization collaborating center for tobacco control.

She is also a Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) and currently co-chairs SRNT’s Global Research Network. She has led several regional and national research studies in the field of tobacco control including South Africa’s first Global Adult Tobacco Survey, Tobacco Endgame in Africa, and a National University students’ study on exposure to e-cigarette and hookah marketing and advertisement in South Africa.

Research Interests: She focuses on the broad spectrum of tobacco control research and advocacy including policy, epidemiology, prevention, cessation, endgame, industry monitoring, emerging and re-emerging products and the commercial determinants of health as well as mental health research.