21 Facts About Linda Bauld

Linda Bauld's parents emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1979 when she was a child.

Linda Bauld spent her teenage years on Vancouver Island and attended Glenlyon Norfolk School in Victoria.

Linda Bauld completed high school at the top of her graduating class in 1987 and was awarded a Governor General's Medal by the Province of British Columbia.

Linda Bauld spent a year in Grenoble, France as an exchange student between 1987 and 1988.

Linda Bauld completed her bachelor's degree in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 1993.

Linda Bauld earned her PhD in social policy at the University of Edinburgh.

Linda Bauld co-authored a book evaluating the community care reforms of the 1990s and served as research advisor to the Scottish Executive in the development of free personal care for older people in Scotland.

Linda Bauld conducted the first evaluation of National Health Service smoking cessation services, which were at the time unique in the world as free-at-the-point-of-use services for smokers who wanted to quit.

In 2006 Linda Bauld moved to the University of Bath, where she was appointed as Reader and subsequently Professor and Head of Department of Social and Policy Sciences.

Also in 2006, Linda Bauld was made the Government of the United Kingdom's scientific adviser on tobacco control, and held this position until 2010.

Linda Bauld then became Deputy Director at the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, an expansion of UKCTCS involving 13 universities, in 2014.

Linda Bauld contributed to building the charity's research on preventable risk factors for cancer in the UK and further afield.

Linda Bauld is interested in the evaluation of complex public health interventions and how they can inform health policy.

Linda Bauld has conducted research on overweight and obesity, tobacco control, drug and alcohol use and inequalities in health.

Linda Bauld is the principal investigator of the Tobacco Control Capacity Programme, a global challenge research fund and Cancer Research UK supported program in south Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Linda Bauld leads the SPECTRUM Consortium, involving 10 universities and the main public health agencies in the UK as well as the Obesity Health Alliance, the Alcohol Health Alliance and the Smokefree Action Coalition.

Linda Bauld led the academic team that co-authored Turning the Tide, a 10 year Healthy Weight Strategy for the UK.

Linda Bauld serves as Bruce and John Usher Chair of Public Health at The Usher Institute.

Linda Bauld was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to guiding public health response to and public understanding of COVID-19.

Linda Bauld has a son and a daughter, with Professor Ken Judge, a social policy academic who served as Director of the King's Fund Policy Institute in the 1980s and 90s.

Linda Bauld remarried in 2013 and lives with her second husband and children in Edinburgh.