Tuesday

Workshop #1:
Alcohol availability, licensing and public health: ExILEnS Study Findings, Implications & Future Research

Summary
The ExILEnS (Exploring the Impact of Licensing in England and Scotland) team would like to invite KBS colleagues interested in alcohol availability to hear the findings of this major study of the impact of public health engagement in alcohol premises licensing in the UK.  KBS colleagues have been generous in their advice to this study at past conferences, and we look forward to lively discussions about the findings and future research.

Many countries use some form of premises licensing to regulate or restrict alcohol availability. In England and Scotland, licensing committees in local governments have power over what venues are given a licence to legally sell alcohol. They make decisions based on local policy, and on alcohol licensing objectives set out in law. Licensing laws are slightly different in Scotland and England. In both nations, public health teams try to influence local licensing decisions and policies, to reduce alcohol-related harms and improve population-level health.

Running from 2017 to 2022, the ExILEnS study used mixed methods to develop a new measure of public health team engagement in alcohol premises licensing, and used this to assess such activity in 39 local government areas from 2012 to 2019 using documentation analysis and 66 structured interviews.  We examined the relationship between such activity and harms outcomes over time using multi-variable time series analysis, and conducted 53 in-depth interviews to explore approaches and mechanisms of impact.

Our findings include consideration of the following:

• The nature and intensity of public health team engagement in alcohol licensing in 39 different local government areas over the study period of 2012-2019.
• Whether higher public health team engagement in alcohol licensing was associated with improved health and crime outcomes over the time period.
• The different approaches that public health teams take in seeking to influence local alcohol licensing policy and decisions, and the acceptability and effectiveness of these approaches from diverse stakeholder perspectives.
• Public health and licensing professional views on the potential ways in which temporal and spatial availability interventions impact on harms
• Differences in licensing laws, systems and structures between England and Scotland, and why they matter for public health.

We will share the final version of ExILEnS Public Health Engagement in Alcohol Licensing (PHIAL) measure – the first of its kind to be developed internationally.
The workshop will comprise of short presentations with time for interactive discussion and sharing ideas for future research or collaborations on alcohol licensing and availability.   

Target group: All KBS 2022 participants
Number of expected participants: Up to 40 expected to facilitate interactive discussion
RSVP to attend the workshop: Yes
Facilitators:
Prof Niamh Fitzgerald, Dr Rachel O’Donnell, Dr. Richard Purves (Institute for Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK);
Dr. Andrea Mohan (University of Dundee and the ExILEnS team)
Time: Tuesday, 16.00-17.30
Contact person: Rachel O’Donnell;

Workshop #2:
Implementation of international guidelines to prevent prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in the context of local communities. Experiences of the FAR SEAS European project

Summary
This workshop aims to discuss the opportunities and challenges of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) prevention within services available at the local level. The discussion will be guided by the experiences of the FAR SEAS, a tendered service contract awarded by the European Commission under the EU Health Programme (ongoing).

The key elements to discuss include:

1. (1) transferability into the local context and practice of comprehensive guideline for health and social care professionals on how to identify women at risk of PAE, and how to undertake effective prevention and treatment;
2. (2) adaptation to local/national needs and implementation of a training package for professionals who assist child-bearing age women;
3. (3) sustainability of the pilot implementation of the evidence-based PAE/FASD prevention in Mazovia region, Poland;
4. (4) transferability of Polish experiences to other regions/countries.

Target group: all KBS 2022 participants interested in FASD and PAE
Number of expected participants: 10-20
RSVP to attend the workshop: YES
Facilitators:
Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn (Children and Adolescent Health Department, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland)
Lidia Segura & Carla Bruguera (Programme on Substance Abuse, Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Department of Health, Government of Catalonia, Spain)
Emanuele Scafato & Claudia Gandin (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy)
Fleur Braddick (Fundació Clínic per la Recerca Biomèdica, Spain)
Time: Tuesday, 16.00-17.30
Contact person: Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn;

Workshop #3:
GenACIS-IGSAHO-GenAHTO KBS 2022 Warsaw Workshop details

Summary:
This year the format of this workshop will focus on updates from each country and discussion of
research gaps in two areas 1) alcohol’s harm to others and 2) alcohol, gender, culture and harm.
There are a number of data sets that hold data from low and middle income countries including the
GENACIS and GENAHTO projects. We are soliciting ideas on potential cross-national gender- and
AHTO-related papers still to be written and ideas about cross-national work that might be funded in
the future. We look forward to workshopping these ideas together in Warsaw.

This means we would like you to please:

1. (1) Before the meeting, send Anne-Marie a few dot points or a paragraph or two on your recent
   research on related projects you are currently working on or planning, particularly if they might be
   expanded into regional or international collaborative research in the future.
2. (2) At the workshop Tuesday afternoon (31^st  May), briefly describe the projects or plans you reported
   in (1);
3. (3) The chairs will facilitate a discussion about research gaps and potential papers and future grant
   opportunities, including what would be necessary (personnel, resources, funding applications, etc.)
   to move these projects forward into the future; and
4. (4) If there’s time, we will identify working groups and leaders that could communicate during the
   coming year and report back to the joint workshop at KBS 2023.

Facilitators: Anne-Marie Laslett and Robin Room
Time: Tuesday, 16.00-17.30
Contact person: Please RSVP to   for the workshop and the dinner by 14
May 2022.

PLEASE NOTE THE DINNER WILL BE HELD on TUESDAY EVENING (DETAILS BELOW)
IGSAHO, GENAHTO and GENACIS Dinner: Tuesday 31 st  May, 18:00
Venue to be confirmed

Thursday

Workshop #4:
Risk and Alcohol Policy

Summary:
Risk plays a crucial role in public health playbook. Several dimensions of risk research, including risk assessment, risk evaluation, risk communication as well as risk perception are to be found in both alcohol research and alcohol policy. From this perspective, alcohol-related problems are not unavoidable threats but may become calculable, predictable, stabilized and therefore - preventable risks.

We claim the decisions made about alcohol- risk prevention to be evidence-based, yet we acknowledge that individual views on alcohol risk is a matter of cultural idiosyncrasies as well as individual experiences and biases. Therefore, alcohol policy has to deal with risk perception while producing reliable data on risk assessments and promoting effective measures to tackle alcohol problems.

In this thematic workshop we would like to share our experiences in risk perception research and explore its link with alcohol policy. Prospects of a comparative study will be considered.

Target group: All KBS 2022 participants 
Number of expected participants: 10-20
RSVP to attend the workshop: YES
Facilitators: Michał Bujalski & Jacek Moskalewicz
Time: Thursday, 16.00-17.30
Contact person: Michał Bujalski;

Workshop #5:
Substance use prevention in Europe - how to bridge the gap?

Summary:
The workshop focuses on three elements of the prevention system that we would like to present and discuss. They are part of a larger puzzle.

1. 1)      Trying to put the puzzle together: EUPC, ASAP projects and standards…
   How the prevention standards are implemented? What was the results of ASAP project (https://asap-training.eu, https://preventionasap.pl )? How to implement prevention for Ukrainian displaced? Let’s try to answer for above questions if we can…
2. 2)      Challenges, hopes, and disappointments. Evidence-based substance use prevention
   Despite the fact that the phrase "evidence-based prevention" appears in almost all official prevention documents, we are still unable to make significant progress. Why is this the case? This presentation offers some suggestions and hypotheses that may be helpful in reducing common disappointments and related challenges. 
3. 3)      Prevention in Integrated Qualifications System
   Prevention in Poland is implemented by very different people, in different ways and often without control over the quality of the proposed activities. We want to organize this area and define the competences of a person implementing prevention activities / interventions. A certificate with the PQF level trademark should guarantee the quality of prevention in Poland and abroad.

Target group:  all KBS 2022 participants are ivited
RSVP to attend the workshop: no
Facilitators:
Artur Malczewski (National Centre for Prevention of Addiction)
Krzysztof Ostaszewski (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology)
Bartosz Kehl (National Centre for Prevention of Addictions)
Time: Thursday, 16.00-17.30
Contact person: Artur Malczewski, kbpn.gov:pl:::::

Other workshop?

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