Alcohol SIG
The Alcohol Special Interest Group (SIG) is chaired by John Mooney (john.mooney2@phs.scot) and reports to the Faculty's Health Improvement Committee.
FPH members can join this SIG by logging into their FPH members’ portal account, selecting the ‘Committees/SIGs’ button and choosing the correct SIG. You will then be asked to provide a few details, following which your application will be automatically approved. Further details on FPH membership are available here.
In 2021, the SIG commented on and endorsed the SHAAP NCD Report.
In 2020, the SIG responded to the Alcohol Health Alliance consultation on alcohol harm in the UK. The Faculty's submission can be found here.
Resources
- Realising Our Rights: How to protect people from alcohol marketing - A report by the Alcohol Marketing Expert Network, June 2022
- Contents unknown: How alcohol labelling still fails consumers - A report by the Alcohol Health Alliance
- The Four Steps to Alcohol Misuse: How the industry uses price, place, promotion and product design to persuade us that too much alcohol is not enough - A report by Alcohol Focus Scotland; Scotland Health Action on Alcohol Problems; Balance, the North East Alcohol Office and engagement and empowerment specialists Our Life, November 2011
- Assessing the feasibility of using place-based health information in alcohol licensing: case studies from seven local authorities in England - pdf available on request
Previous events
This expert talk by Dr Nason Maani took place on 26 March 2024.
Dr Nason Maani's research interests centre on the structural and commercial determinants of health, with a special interest in how they shape public understanding and policy. This includes primary research on the alcohol, sugar sweetened beverage, firearm, social media, and fossil fuel industries, as well as policy research on the relationships between underinvestment, commercial influence and inequity.
He has served as a consultant and expert for the WHO on the commercial determinants of health, and is an editor alongside Sandro Galea and Mark Petticrew of the book "The Commercial Determinants of Health", released by Oxford University Press. He is currently a co-investigator on an NIHR Three Schools-funded scoping review of the commercial determinants of mental health.
Colin Angus is a Senior Research Fellow and alcohol policy modeller in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group at the University of Sheffield. His work primarily focuses on the development of complex health economic models and their application to estimate the potential impact of alcohol policies on public health and health inequalities.
His work has played a key role in the development, introduction and evaluation of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland as well as informing the development of low risk drinking guidelines in the UK and Australia and the recent changes to the UK alcohol duty system.
In this webinar, Colin gave an overview of the evidence on the impacts that Minimum Unit Pricing has had in Scotland, discussing the potential impacts it could have in England and Northern Ireland and considering how it might have influenced changes in drinking behaviours and alcohol harms since the start of the pandemic.
