Jonathan Livingstone-Banks

BA MA PhD

Lecturer & Senior Researcher in Evidence-Based Healthcare

Associate editor - Nicotine & Tobacco Research
Associate editor - Cochrane Clinical Answers
University of Oxford LGBT+ Ally

My research is primarily in the field of tobacco control, where I mostly conduct evidence syntheses. I am also interested in methodological research in this area.

I was managing editor and information specialist for the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group (CTAG), and am still involved in many Cochrane Reviews on tobacco control topics.

I'm also a philosopher interested in the philosophy of evidence-based healthcare; in particular the value and methods of evidence synthesis, and how we define and classify diseases and how this impacts on healthcare practice and medical research.

Declaration of interests

I have received funding (including grants, scholarships, fees, bursaries and honoraria, etc.) for research and teaching (etc.) from the below organisations. I have never received any funding, gifts or other benefit from any company or individual in the tobacco or nicotine industry.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Cancer Research UK
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Research England
The NIHR School for Primary Care Research
The University of Oxford
Oxford Brookes University
The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, London
Cochrane Clinical Answers (Wiley)
Magdalen College School, Oxford
The University of Leeds

Is behaviour change communication guidance for general practice healthcare professionals evidence based? A systematic review

Schwarze-Chintapatla A. et al, (2026), BMC Medicine, 24

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Key publications

The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: An overview of systematic reviews

Effects of interventions to combat tobacco addiction: Cochrane update of 2021 to 2023 reviews

Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation

Print-based self-help interventions for smoking cessation

Recent publications

Compliance with existing standards: overview comparing Cochrane with non-Cochrane living systematic reviews.

Scoping review of e-cigarette use in the perioperative setting: a protocol

Reduced-nicotine cigarettes for smoking cessation and reduction

Is behaviour change communication guidance for general practice healthcare professionals evidence based? A systematic review

Training health professionals in smoking cessation

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: An overview of systematic reviews and evidence and gap map

Emergency department interventions for smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Interventions for quitting vaping.

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation

Best Practice Methods for Living Evidence Synthesis in Health Care: An International Modified Delphi Survey