Janet’s nursing experience has been in the public health area and she has worked at all three levels of government. From 1993 to 2005 she coordinated the services of the Smoke Free Ontario resource centre; Program Training and Consultation Centre and for the past 3 years has been operating her own consultancy business. Janet has been directly involved in the publication of numerous resources on youth advocacy, youth cessation, adult cessation and workplace policy.

Janet was team leader of the RNAO Best Practice Guidelines on smoking cessation and has been working with professionals and health care organizations providing training workshops and planning consults. She has also contributed to international tobacco control efforts in the Balkans and Romania and Turkey.