Register of Interests
Professor Virginia Berridge
- Professor of History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Editorial boards: Addiction (Assistant Editor for Addiction History series), Addiction Research and Theory, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (editor of Public Health past and present), Twentieth Century British History.
- Has received research funding from the AERC and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Ms Joyce Craig
- Senior Health Economist, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
- No personal or non-personal interests to declare
Professor Christopher Day
- Head of School, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, Newcastle University
- Member of the MRC bodies PSCSB and TCDB
- Have received research funding from the MRC, Wellcome Trust and Department of Health
- Serve on the Medical Advisory Boards of CORE, ERAB and British Liver Trust
Mr Ian Ford
- Full time employee and Company Secretary of The North British Distillery Co Ltd., a major provider of scotch grain whisky to the blended scotch whisky sector. The North British Distillery Co. is 100% owned by Lothian Distillers Ltd., which, in turn, is a joint venture owned 50% by The Edrington Group, an independent Scotch Whisky Group and 50% by Diageo plc, a major international drinks company.The North British Distillery Co. is also a member of the Scotch Whisky Association, the industry’s trade association and of The Scotch Whisky Research Institute, a research company sponsored by a number of major scotch whisky companies.
- Also arranges for accountancy, payroll and IT services to be provided by himself and North British Distillery Co. colleagues to be supplied, free of charge, to the AERC
Professor David Foxcroft
- Employee of Oxford Brookes University
- His Department has received research funding from the AERC and from Diageo.
- Trustee of the Drinkaware Trust
- Serves on the editorial boards of: Cochrane Drug & Alcohol Group; and Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
Professor Ian Gilmore
- Chairman of the Trustees of the Royal College of Physicians and lead spokesman on alcohol issues
- Member of the Department of Health Clinical Expert Group on alcohol issues
- Clinical Adviser to Boehringer Ingelheim on liver toxicity of a new drug in clinical trials (2005 to 2007)
Professor Gerard Hastings
- Director of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research and the Institute for Social Marketing at Stirling and the Open university.
- Research interests include the impact of marketing in general and for specific products (most notably tobacco, alcohol and food) on health behaviour and outcomes.
- Research funding comes from public and charitable sectors
Professor Ray Hodgson - AERC Director
- An Editorial Advisor of the journal “Addiction”
- Member and past president of the Society for the Study of Addiction
- Member of the Alcohol Research Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Dr Eileen Kaner
- Employee of Newcastle University
- Editorial Board member, Drug and Alcohol Review
- Member of the National Clinical Advisory Group on Alcohol
- Member of the North East Regional Group on Alcohol
- Research interests are Alcohol and Public Health
- Research funding comes from a range of public and charitable sources (including the AERC)
- Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Programme Development Group on the Prevention of Alcohol Use Disorders in Adults and Adolescents.
- Member of the Science task-group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum
Mrs Lesley King-Lewis
- Chief Executive Officer of Action on Addiction.
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on Alcohol
Dr Pui-Ling Li
- Employed as Director of Public Health and Medical Director of Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust
- Chair, Chinese National Healthy Living Centre
Mr Drew Munro
- General Manager of Beam Global Spirits & Wine in the UK
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
- Executive Member of The Marketing Society
- Member of the Institute of Directors
- Executive Board Member of The Wine and Spirits Trade Association
- Council Member and Trustee of The Benevolent