Mike Daube is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, where he was also Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute. He was previously Director General of Health for Western Australia and Chair of the Australian National Public Health Partnership. He has held many senior positions in government, with further roles including President of PHAA, President of ACOSH, co-chair of the National Alliance for Action on Alcohol, and chair of many other boards and committees, including the government’s advisory committee that recommended tobacco plain packaging. He has been active in health policy, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, predatory journals and other public health areas for fifty years, has published widely and worked in more than forty countries.