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Alcohol, tobacco, and junk food industries make £53 billion a year from harmful consumption

In this month's podcast, we spoke to Dr Aalaa Jawad about a new report by the AHA, OHA and ASH that found that alcohol, tobacco, and junk food industries make £53 billion a year from harmful consumption. We also spoke [...]

Dr Aalaa Jawad – Public Health Registrar
Susan Taylor – Head of Alcohol Policy, Balance

November 2023

Alcohol, tobacco, and junk food industries make £53 billion a year from harmful consumption

In this month's podcast, we spoke to Dr Aalaa Jawad about a new report by the AHA, OHA and ASH [...]

Dr Aalaa Jawad – Public Health Registrar
Susan Taylor – Head of Alcohol Policy, Balance

November 2023

7th Global Alcohol Policy Conference 2023

In this month's podcast we spoke to a number of the attendees at the 7th Global Alcohol Policy Conference in [...]

David Jernigan, Charles Parry, Alison Douglas, Nicola Merrin, Chris Smith, and Juan Tello – Attendees

November 2023

184,000 preventable cancers in 2023 will cost economy £78 billion

In this month's podcast we spoke to economist Nicholas Woolley about a new report by Frontier Economics, which found that [...]

Nicholas Woolley – Frontier Economics
Robert Stebbings – Adfam

September 2023

Home drinking is a major contributor to alcohol-related violence

In this month's podcast we spoke to Lucy Bryant of IAS and Dr Carly Lightowlers of the University of Liverpool, [...]

Lucy Bryant – Institute of Alcohol Studies
Dr Carly Lightowlers – University of Liverpool

August 2023

UK public wants more action on alcohol harm

In our latest podcast we spoke to Anu Rumm of the Alcohol Health Alliance, about new polling data which suggests [...]

Anu Rumm – Alcohol Health Alliance
Ailar Hashemzadeh – Alcohol Change UK

August 2023

Dr Katherine Severi

IAS Strategy and the CPTPP trade deal’s threat to public health

On the podcast this month, we are joined by our chief executive, Dr Katherine Severi, to discuss her proudest moments [...]

Dr Katherine Severi – IAS
Dr Courtney McNamara – University of Newcastle

May 2023

Alcohol-related harm in the northeast of England

Joining our podcast this week is Susan Taylor, Head of Alcohol Policy for Fresh and Balance in the northeast. We [...]

Susan Taylor – Head of Alcohol Policy, Balance
Dr Harriet Rumgay – IARC

April 2023

Dr Peter Rice

Duty increases in Spring Budget 2023

On this month’s podcast, we spoke to Dr Peter Rice, an addiction psychiatrist and IAS's chair, about changes to alcohol [...]

Dr Peter Rice – Addiction Psychiatrist
Dr Sadie Boniface – Head of Research, IAS

March 2023

Scotland’s alcohol marketing consultation

On this month’s podcast, we spoke to Nicola Merrin, Policy and Research Manager at Alcohol Focus Scotland. We discussed the [...]

Nicola Merrin – Alcohol Focus Scotland

February 2023

What are the commercial determinants of health?

The phrase ‘commercial determinants of health’ is being increasingly used in the public health sphere. But what does it mean, [...]

Jeff Collin – Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh

January 2023