GAPA Board meets in London, November 2012

Planning took place for the GAPA Conference in Seoul 7 - 9 October 2013. The theme will be “Alcohol, Civil Society and Public Health; From local and national action to global change”. The Secretariat is the Institute of Alcohol Problems, Sahmyook University, Korea. The website address is www.GAPC2013.com

Dr Evelyn Gillan, Chief Executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, and Professor Thomas Babor, Physicians Health Services Chair in Community Medicine & Public Health, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA, were appointed to the Board.

Back row from left to right: Associate Professor, David Jernigan, Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee (USA), Professor Charles Parry (South Africa), Mr Derek Rutherford (UK Chairman), Mr Øystein Bakke, Secretary (Norway), Dr S Arulrhaj (India), Dr Ronaldo Laranjeiro (Brazil) Front row from left to right: Dr Michel Crapet (France), Miss Katherine Brown (Assistant to the UK Chairman, GAPA), Dr Evelyn Gillan (Scotland), Professor Sungsoo Chun (Korea), Professor Udomsil Srisangnam, Vice Chair (Thailand), Professor Isidore S Obot (Nigeria), and Mr George Hacker (USA)