New Management Team at IAS

A new management team has been installed at IAS, and the Scientific Advisory Board has also been strengthened.

The new Director of IAS is Dr Adrian Bonner. Dr Bonner is an academic with many years experience in the addictions field. He remains a Reader in the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, where, as founder and Director of the Addictive Behaviours Group, he has facilitated the development of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research activities aimed at practitioners and managers working in social and healthrelated agencies. He has been a member of various UK government working groups, including Skills for Health. Adrian’s principal research has focused on mechanisms of brain damage and the role of alcohol and other nutritional factors in cognitive function. This research has become more integrated with psychological and social approaches, and underpins his current research into health inequalities and the role of alcohol in adversely affecting personal wellbeing. Adrian provides health-related support for The Salvation Army Social Services in the UK and internationally, including with the UNODC. He has produced over 100 books, reviews, and peerreviewed papers.

Katherine Brown is the new IAS Head of Research and Communications. She joins IAS from the Central Office of Information where she worked on a variety of public health communications campaigns, including tobacco control, organ donation and the HPV vaccination programme. Katherine is a history graduate of the University of Exeter and was awarded MSc in Global Health and Public Policy by the University of Edinburgh, where she specialised in commercial sector involvement in global health governance, using the WHO Global Alcohol Strategy public consultation as a case study.

Derek Rutherford was appointed Chairman of IAS following the death of Professor Brian Prichard in 2010. His involvement in the alcohol field stretches over 60 years. He was the founder Director of the Teachers’ Advisory Council on Alcohol and Drug Education, and he also directed the National Council on Alcoholism, the precursor to Alcohol Concern. He is a former Director of IAS.

The IAS Scientific Advisory Board has been joined by two new members, Professor Petra Meier and Professor Gerard Hastings, both of whom are well known in the alcohol field.

Professor Meier is Professor of Public Health and Deputy Director of the Section of Public Health, University of Sheffi eld. Her research interests include alcohol policies and their effectiveness, especially pricing, marketing and availability.

Professor Gerard Hastings is the Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and the Cancer Research UK Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling.

The other members of the IAS Scientific Advisory Panel are:

• Professor Rob Baggott, Director of the Health Policy Research Unit, Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester

• Dr Marsha Morgan, Reader in Medicine, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

• Professor Chris Cook, Professorial Research Fellow, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University

• Professor Jonathan Chick Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Edinburgh Hospital

• Miss M Le Feuvre, Former Head of Legal Services, Southampton & New Forest Magistrates Courts