astronomy

Judith Mackay

Judith Mackay is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Judith Mackay rather than just read about it. In short: Professor Judith Longstaff Mackay (born 1943) is a British physician and tobacco control advocate who has led a campaign against tobacco in Asia since 1984, campaigning for tax increases to discourage youth smoking, for the creation of smoke-free areas, and against tobacco promotion. Her main interests are tobacco in low-income countries, women and tobacco, and challenging the transnational tobacco companies.

Key takeaways

Judith Mackay belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Judith Mackay to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Judith Mackay from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Professor Judith Longstaff Mackay (born 1943) is a British physician and tobacco control advocate who has led a campaign against tobacco in Asia since 1984, campaigning for tax increases to discourage youth smoking, for the creation of smoke-free areas, and against tobacco promotion. Her main interests are tobacco in low-income countries, women and tobacco, and challenging the transnational tobacco companies. She is based in Hong Kong, where she is a permanent resident.

Education Mackay completed her medical training in Edinburgh and is now a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and London. Mackay holds professorships at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing, the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Career Following a career in hospital medicine, since 1989 Mackay has been the executive director of the Hong Kong–based Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control. Mackay is a Senior Policy Advisor to the World Health Organization. From 2006 to 2020 she was Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies, part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use in Low and Middle-income countries. While still based in Hong Kong, she is currently Special Advisor to the Global Center for Good Governance on Tobacco Control based in Thailand. She has published about 300 papers and articles, and given over 650 presentations at conferences, especially on tobacco control, and serves as advisor or on the board of many international health organisations, for example Patron, Clear the Air; Hon Consultant, Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong SAR. She feels passionately about converting health statistics into maps and graphics, and has authored or co-authored 12 atlases, most published by Myriad Editions.

Awards In 1988 she was awarded the World Health Organization Commemorative Medal, in 1989 the US Surgeon General's medallion, and in 1992 the APACT Presidential Award. In 2000 she was selected by her peers for the Luther Terry Award for Outstanding Individual Leadership. In 2006 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT), the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong government, and the 60 Asian Heroes Award by TIME Magazine. In 2007 she received the Time 100 award for her work, in 2008 an OBE from Queen Elizabeth, and in 2009 the first-ever British Medical Journal award for lifetime achievement. She has received an award from His Majesty the King of Thailand for her work in Tobacco Control. In 2010, her work was profiled by CNN. In 2015 she received an honorary degree, Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa, from Hong Kong Shue Yan University. In 2016 she received an honorary degree, Doctor honoris causa, from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, her alma mater. She has been named as one of the three most dangerous people in the world by the tobacco industry.

Publications The State of Health Atlas. Myriad Editions; Simon and Schuster 1993. English and American editions (Simon and Schuster); German (Dietz); French (Editions Autrement); Swedish (Bokskogen) Health Atlas The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior. Myriad Editions; Penguin, 2000; (and in French and German) The Tobacco Atlas (with Dr Michael Eriksen). Myriad Editions; World Health Organization, 2002, ISBN 92-4-156209-9 The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke (with Dr George A. Mensah). Myriad Editions; World Health Organization, 2004, ISBN 92-4-156276-5 The Tobacco Atlas, 2nd edn (with Dr Michael Eriksen, Dr Omar Shafey). Myriad Editions; American Cancer Society, 2006, ISBN 0-944235-58-1 The Cancer Atlas (with Ahmedin Jemal, Nancy Lee, Maxwell Parkin). Myriad Editions; American Cancer Society, 2006, ISBN 0-944235-62-X The Tobacco Atlas, 3rd edn (with Dr Omar Shafey, Dr Michael Eriksen, Dr Hana Ross). The American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, 2009 The Global Tobacco Surveillance System Atlas (with Charles W. Warren, Samira Asma, Juliette Lee, Veronica Lea). Myriad Editions; Centers for Disease Control Foundation, USA, 2009 The Oral Health Atlas (with Roby Beaglehole, Habib Benzian, Jon Crail). Myriad Editions; FDI World Dental Federation 2009 ISBN 978-0-9539261-6-9 The Tobacco Atlas, 4th edn (with Michael Eriksen and Hana Ross). The American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, 2012 The Tobacco Atlas, 5th edn (with Michael Eriksen, Neil Schluger, Farhad Islami Gomeshtapeh, Jeffrey Drope). The American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, 2015. The GATS Atlas (Global Adult Tobacco Survey) (with S. Asma, S. Y. Song, L. Zhao, J. Morton, K. M. Palipudi, et al.), CDC Foundation, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2015. How COVID-19 took over the world: lessons for the future (with Christine Loh et al.), Hong Kong University Press, 2023.ISBN 978-988-8805-65-5

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Judith Mackay

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Judith Mackay claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Judith Mackay before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Judith Mackay ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Judith Mackay

In research: Judith Mackay appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Judith Mackay in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Judith Mackay is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1943 births, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Anti-smoking activists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Judith Mackay outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Judith Mackay in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Judith Mackay means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Judith Mackay out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Judith Mackay matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Judith Mackay?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Judith Mackay.