Dr Ross MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Health Studies at Macquarie University.

His research areas include global tobacco industry operations and strategies, particularly in Southeast Asia; global health governance; tobacco control; the medicalisation of smoking cessation; environmental impacts of tobacco use; and the role of the media in health policy and advocacy.

Dr MacKenzie has previously worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London); School of Public Health University of Sydney; Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Thailand; and Cancer Council NSW, and is a member of the Global Tobacco Control Research Programme at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.