I am participating in the Global Alcohol Policy Conference – GAPC – 13-15 February 2012 in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
The theme for the conference is “From the Global Alcohol Strategy to National and Local Action”.
Day 1 of the Conference will focus on Alcohol related harm: Harm to Others and Harm to All. Day 2 on Context, Community, Capacity and Collaboration: Local and global on the same wavelength and day 3 on Alcohol policy and interventions: Focusing on the ones that deliver.
About 900 people are registered and our Thai hosts have done a marvelous job organising so far.
The Conference is jointly organized by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization, the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA) and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and is co-sponsered by among others IOGT International.
On Tuesday 14 February I will be speaking in a session on the topic “Put Alcohol on Political Agenda”. You can check out my profile, including a rather old picture of mine, as one among many highly respectable experts on alcohol issues.
This concference is sure to give momentum to stronger alcohol policies all over the world.
