DETAILED PROGRAM AGENDA

Tuesday, December 7

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - An endangered commodity? Future directions for alcohol policy research and action
This closing plenary panel of community health advocates, researchers, and federal research and demonstration funders will consider optimum ways for brokering science to practice.
Cushing		Judy Cushing is president and CEO of Oregon Partnership, a statewide private non-profit organization dedicated to substance abuse prevention, education and treatment referral services. Cushing was a member of the National Research Council Institute of Medicine’s Committee that produced the landmark report, Reducing Underage Drinking – A Collective Responsibility (2003), and served on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)National Advisory Council.
Hingson		Ralph Hingson, ScD, MPH, a researcher whose work has inspired legislative efforts against drinking and driving, joined the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in 2004 as director of its Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research and leader of NIAAA's college drinking prevention initiative. Dr. Hingson was formerly at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), where he had served since 2001 as associate dean for research. From 1986 to 2000, he served as professor and chair of the BUSPH social and behavioral sciences department. Research by Hingson and colleagues in the early and mid-1990s helped stimulate passage of legislation, now enacted in all states, that makes it illegal for drivers under 21 to drive after any drinking.
Holt		Nicole Holt, executive director of Texans Standing Tall (TST), has more than a decade of experience with non-profit organizations developing programs, grassroots organizing, coalition building, and advocating for policy change. She previously served TST as one of six state project directors for the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth.
Nelson		Toben Nelson, ScD, is an assistant professor in the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health. His work focuses on health policy, organizational change, health behavior during developmental transitions, social determinants of health, program evaluation, prevention of alcohol-attributable harm, and motor vehicle safety. CDC Injury Prevention Fellow, 2010. Support provided by the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC.
Furr-Holden		Debra Furr-Holden, PhD, assistant professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, is an epidemiologist with expertise in drug and alcohol dependence epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology and prevention science. Dr. Furr-Holden's areas of research encompass highway traffic and safety, including measurement of alcohol use disorders on the roadside as well as field testing innovative data collection techniques that include multimodal assessments involving simultaneous collection of biological specimens and survey data. She initiated the Drug Investigations, Violence and Environmental Studies Laboratory (The DIVE Studies Lab).
Wing		Stephen Wing, MSW, is associate administrator for alcohol policy at SAMHSA where he advises the agency on alcohol policy issues, and coordinates alcohol-related prevention and treatment activities. He also chairs the Agency Representatives Committee of the Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking.

 

 

 

 

 

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