Pre-meetings: 29-30 August

Pre-meeting #1:
Community ownership as an instrument for public health and welfare: Lessons from community-owned licensed premises

Summary
In response to community challenges like economic downturn, residents of regional and rural towns in Australia are increasingly collectively purchasing and restoring their local pub (licensed hotel). Documented examples of community owned licensed premises exist internationally, but the literature on the impacts of these premises is small and mostly discussed in relation to a particular society. The idea of this meeting is to bring together researchers with interest around the issue of licensed cooperatives and community-ownership and find out if there is common interest in a comparative international study to advance knowledge about how community-ownership of licensed premises can deliver public health benefits through their potential contribution to shaping alcohol access and drinking cultures as well as the governance and policy contexts that support and protect their social mission.

Target group: All KBS 2022 participants
RSVP to attend the workshop: Preferred but not mandatory
Facilitators: Claire Wilkinson, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Time: 2 pm Sunday
Locations and room: Gerbera
Contact person: Claire Wilkinson,

Pre-meeting #2:
Pre-KBS workshop on decreasing harm for women and children in the family caused by men’s drinking

Chairs: Orratai Waleewong, Anne-Marie Laslett and Robin Room
Summary
In this workshop we will coordinate discussion and collaboration of international researchers in a workshop seeking to generate greater understanding of harm to women and children in the family caused by men’s drinking. This workshop will continue work undertaken as part of the WHO/ThaiHealth International Collaborative Research Project on the Harm to Others from Drinking in Phases I and II of the project.

Participation: By invitation
Time: Sunday 29 th May, 2022, 9am – 3pm
Locations and room: Lilia
Contact person & RSVP: Sunday 15 th May 2022 to

This workshop has been funded by a grant from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation under a
Memorandum of Understanding between the WHO and Thai Health Promotion Foundation on Health
Promotion 2018-2021, managed by the International Health Policy Program, Nonthaburi, Thailand.

Other workshop?

For those who wish to organize pre-meetings on 28^th and 29^th of May 2022, four rooms (up to 40 persons) have been reserved. Please contact to announce your pre-meeting and to reserve a space for you.