He was the secretary of the RCP report Smoking and the young in 1992, and between 2002 and 2005 he was a member of the RCP's Tobacco Advisory Group. He is a past president of the British Thoracic Society and past chairman of the clinical assembly of the European Respiratory Society. Professor Woodcock has worked for the Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer for the last 20 years. He has led the final phase-out of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and now co-leads the overarching technology and economic assessment panel.