Jeannie is an independent consultant and founder of JCIC International, with a background in public policy and international law.
As assistant director in the International Legal Section of the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, she worked on the Platform for Action for the Fourth World Conference of Women, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the World Summit for Social Development. She has been engaged as a consultant for the OECD and oversaw the development of the FCTC, as well as writing a 2007 dissertation—Emerging Public Health Issues: Human Rights, harm reduction and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control—at Kings College London.
Could international human rights mechanisms be successfully used to contest government-imposed bans and restrictions on nicotine vapes and other safer…