Personal profile
Research Expertise
Annika’s research focuses on disease prevention and improving health through behaviour change. With over thirteen years of academic and clinical research experience, she has established expertise in tobacco addiction and the use of evidence synthesis to inform health policy and practice.
Her work has involved leading and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across national and international networks to deliver large-scale, policy-relevant evidence syntheses, including living systematic reviews, Cochrane Reviews, and network meta-analyses. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, where she investigated socioeconomic inequalities in smoking cessation behaviours and outcomes using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Research Interests
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco control
- Health behaviours
- Evidence synthesis
- Systematic reviews
- Meta-analysis
Research Collaborations
- Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group,
Centre for Evidence-based Medicine,
University of Oxford
Supervisory Interests
- Evidence synthesis
- Tobacco control
- smoking cessation
- Obesity prevention, healthy behaviours
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: An overview of systematic reviews and evidence and gap map
Wu, A. D., Conde, M., Butler, A. R., Knight, E., Lindson, N., Livingstone-Banks, J., Hajek, P., McRobbie, H., Begh, R., Theodoulou, A., Notley, C., Turner, T., Zhitnik, E. & Hartmann-Boyce, J., 26 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Addiction. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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An update of a systematic review and meta-analyses exploring flavours in intervention studies of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation
Lindson, N., Livingstone-Banks, J., Butler, A. R., Levy, D. T., Barnett, P., Theodoulou, A., Notley, C., Rigotti, N. A., Chen, Y. & Hartmann-Boyce, J., Apr 2025, In: Addiction. 120, 4, p. 770-778 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Differences in the effectiveness of individual-level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status
Theodoulou, A., Fanshawe, T. R., Leavens, E., Theodoulou, E., Wu, A. D., Heath, L., Stewart, C., Nollen, N., Ahluwalia, J. S., Butler, A. R., Hajizadeh, A., Thomas, J., Lindson, N. & Hartmann-Boyce, J., 27 Jan 2025, In: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2025, 1, 231 p., CD015120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Lindson, N., Livingstone-Banks, J., Butler, A. R., McRobbie, H., Bullen, C. R., Hajek, P., Wu, A. D., Begh, R., Theodoulou, A., Notley, C., Rigotti, N. A., Turner, T., Fanshawe, T. & Hartmann-Boyce, J., 10 Nov 2025, In: The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 11, p. CD010216 89 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Lindson, N., Butler, A. R., McRobbie, H., Bullen, C., Hajek, P., Wu, A. D., Begh, R., Theodoulou, A., Notley, C., Rigotti, N. A., Turner, T., Livingstone-Banks, J., Morris, T. & Hartmann-Boyce, J., 29 Jan 2025, In: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2025, 1, 363 p., CD010216.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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