Description

The Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm (AWARH) serves to raise awareness for the incredibly high levels of alcohol consumption in Europe. AWARH week is designed to showcase policies that can be implemented at the EU and national levels to reduce population-level alcohol consumption. In this episode, Professor Nick Sheron, a clinical hepatologist, and Florence Berteletti, a public policy professional come together to discuss challenges in implementing alcohol policies and current initiatives taking place in Europe to address those obstacles.

The EASL Policy Dialogues are supported by CymaBay, Echosens, Grifols and Novo Nordisk. CymaBay, Echosens, Grifols and Novo Nordisk have had no input into the content of the EASL Policy Dialogues.

 

Speakers

  
Nick Sheron

Nick Sheron is an academic clinical hepatologist at University of Southampton and runs the liver unit at Southampton General Hospital. He is also actively involved in a clinically based programme of research in various aspects of alcohol-related problems. Together with Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians, he co-founded the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, an umbrella body bring together 27 different organisations including Royal Colleges, NGOs and charities with the aim of lobbying for evidence-based policies to reduce alcohol-related harm in the UK. He is also a founder member of the European Union Alcohol Forum, a member of the European Union Alcohol Marketing Taskforce and two bodies of which have been set up by the European Commission in order to take forward the EU Alcohol Strategy.

Florence Berteletti

Florence Berteletti has over 20 years of international policy and advocacy experience in diverse fields including fiscal policies for health, tobacco control, alcohol related harm and culture policy. Florence Berteletti was appointed Secretary General of Eurocare in August 2021. Between 2018 and August 2021, Florence was Advocacy Director at the World Heart Federation where she was responsible for leading WHF’s global policy and advocacy and led dossiers related to Front of Pack Labelling, Fiscal Policies for Health, Rheumatic Heart Diseases and Air pollution, to name just a few. Before WHF, Florence was Director of the Smoke Free Partnership (SFP), an alliance of 52 civil society organisations dedicated to the implementation of the WH Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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