Upcoming workshop on public health and alcohol licensing We’re pleased to announce that the 2nd workshop for the Public Health and Alcohol Licensing study will be held on Monday 26th March, 10.00 – 13.00, at London School of Hygiene & … Continue reading
Emerging findings from the Public Health and Alcohol Licensing (PHAL) study were shared at two key public health conferences in London in November 2017: the Lancet Public Health Science Annual Meeting, and the Annual Public Health Registrars’ Conference for London … Continue reading
First stakeholder workshop – 13th September 2017 On 13th September, we held the first stakeholder workshop for the Public Health and Alcohol Licensing (PHAL) tool study, at LSHTM, Keppel St, London. The aims of the workshop were to: Share early … Continue reading
Update on study progress and forthcoming stakeholder workshop Study overview As public health has an increasing role to play in shaping how alcohol is sold in local areas, we are interested in finding out more about how public health practitioners … Continue reading
Overview: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Safe Sociable London Partnership and Southwark Public Health are conducting a research study to explore the range of influences on public health practitioners’ contributions to alcohol licensing processes in local authorities … Continue reading
Despite legal changes in Scotland, councils are struggling to use public health as an argument against new pubs and off-licences. We need to reconsider the role of licensing in the context of other ways to achieve the same ends, suggests … Continue reading
Alcohol policy has, for too long, spurned evidence or evaluation. Scotland is showing England and Wales the way forward, prioritising monitoring and evaluation of new policies to help generate better evidence, argues David Humphreys Government policies to control alcohol have, … Continue reading
SPHR@L Seminar Series NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM ‘Preventing harm with alcohol licensing: can we generate evidence from policy?’ Speaker: David Humphreys (University of Oxford) Seminar abstract – D Humphreys Seminar blog coming soon… Date: Wednesday, 11th March 2015 Time: 17.15-18.30 – … Continue reading