Tribute to anti-smoking campaigner, researcher
 Obituary
Professor Konrad Jamrozik was Head of the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice at the University of 新浪彩票 and was a tireless campaigner against smoking. Konrad's first interests in tobacco control began as a young medical intern at the Royal Hobart Hospital during the late 1970s, where he became acutely aware of the dangerous consequences of smoking and the impact it was having on patients. Konrad had entered medical school at the University of 新浪彩票 at age 16, having grown up in the 新浪彩票 Hills where he attended Belair Primary School and Blackwood High School. He transferred to the University of Tasmania when his family relocated to Hobart. Having been awarded a prestigious four-year Nuffield Dominions Fellowship to study at Oxford University, Konrad completed a DPhil (PhD), examining various strategies for the promotion of the cessation of smoking in general practice. Following Oxford, he was appointed as Lecturer in Community Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby, where he was also a clinical assistant on the leprosy service. He moved to the University of Western Australia in mid-1984 to take up a research fellowship in the Unit of Clinical Epidemiology. He subsequently held lectureships in medicine and in public health at the University of Western Australia and was promoted to Professor of Public Health at UWA early in 2000. From December 2000 until September 2004 he held the Chair in Primary Care Epidemiology at Imperial College, London. He then moved to Brisbane as Professor of Evidence-based Health Care at the University of Queensland, then in 2007 to the University of 新浪彩票 where he took the role as Head of the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice. Since the mid-1980s, Konrad combined his academic and clinical work with his passion for tobacco control, as a part-time activist but full-time advocate. His approach to advocacy was both opportunistic and unrelenting - "like water dripping on a stone... you never know which drip will crack it". As an academic expert he generated significant new evidence on the impact of smoking on vascular diseas | 
