EDC - Building Bridges Between Research and Practice

13th Alcohol Policy Conference
Preventing Alcohol Problems Among Youth: Policy Approaches
Environment and Accountability: Who Is Responsible?

Thursday - Sunday, March 13 - 16, 2003

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Thursday, March 13

Friday, March 14

Saturday, March 15

Sunday, March 16

 

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration/Help Desk, Exhibits, and Resource Zone continue

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Registration/Help Desk

 

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

 

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION A

Call to order - Johnnetta Davis-Joyce

Welcome from EDC - Cheryl Vince Whitman

Welcome from Massachusetts - Deborah Walker

Preventing alcohol problems: Popular approaches are ineffective, effective approaches are politically impossible - Robin Room

Discussants: Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Norman Giesbrecht, and Thomas Greefield

Discussion

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION D

Morning announcements - Johnnetta Davis-Joyce

Policy options for preventive interventions: What's working? - Thomas Babor, Traci Toomey, and Richard Yoast

Discussants:  Lewis Eigan, Beverly Watts Davis, and Tania Garcia

Discussion

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

PLENARY SESSION G

Morning announcements - Johnnetta Davis-Joyce

Economics of alcohol control policies -  John Bunker, Bill Gallegos, George Hacker, and Jeff Jessee

Discussion

 

 

 

10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Concurrent sessions 1 - 6

9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Concurrent sessions 19 - 24

10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Concurrent sessions 31 - 36

 

 

 

11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Concurrent sessions 7 - 12

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Poster sessions

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION H

Twenty years of U.S. alcohol policy: What's promising in the near term - James Mosher

Discussant - Larry Wallack

Closing Remarks - Johnnetta Davis-Joyce

 

1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Registration/Help Desk Open

12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION B WITH LUNCH

Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free cosponsored by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Special guest: Mrs. Hope Taft, First Lady of Ohio

 

12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION E WITH LUNCH

Policies to deter high-risk drinking among adolescents and young adults - Ralph Hingson

Discussants: William DeJong, Randy Elder, Robert Saltz, and Emily Vinyard

Discussion

 

 

 

 

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Alcohol Policy Orientation Seminar (optional) - Norman Giesbrecht and Sheila Nesbitt (seminar co-chairs) Linda Degutis,  Robin Room, Traci Toomey,  and Glenn Wieringa

2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION C

Marketing, media, new products, and youth drinking: What's the problem? - David Jernigan

Discussants: Jesse Brown, Joel Grube, George Hacker, and Dwayne Proctor

Discussion

2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

PLENARY SESSION F

Putting prevention into action: Panel of field experiences - Linda Major, Nadine Parker, Kathy Staples, and Glenn Wieringa

Discussion

 

 

 

 

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Opening conference reception for all participants sponsored by AMA with special guest, Edward Hill

4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Concurrent sessions 13 - 18

4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Concurrent sessions 25 - 30

 

6:00 p.m.

Gather in lobby for no host dinner outings; Cooperating organizations may also convene evening working meetings.

 



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Confirmed Speakers

Johnnetta Davis-Joyce, manager, Underage Drinking Training Center, Pacific Institute for Prevention and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland (conference chairperson)

Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, PhD, professor of clinical public health, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York

Thomas F. Babor, PhD, professor and head, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut

Rev. Jesse W. Brown, founder and executive director, National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery, Philadelphia

John F. Bunker, ScD, executive director, New Futures, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Linda C. Degutis, DPH, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Beverly Watts Davis, executive director and vice president, San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc.

William DeJong, PhD, professor of public health, Boston University School of Public Health, and director, U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, Newton, Massachusetts

Beth DeRicco, PhD, associate director, U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, Newton, Massachusetts

Lewis D. Eigen, EdD, president and chief executive officer, Social & Health Services, Ltd., Rockville, Maryland

Randy Elder, PhD cand., research fellow, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

Bill Gallegos, project coordinator, California Youth Alcohol Policy Initiative, San Francisco

Tania Garcia, director, Northeastern Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts

Norman Giesbrecht, PhD, senior scientist, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Toronto

Thomas K. Greenfield, PhD, director of the National Alcohol Research Center and senior scientist, Alcohol Research Group, Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley

Joel Grube, PhD, associate director and senior research scientist, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley

George A. Hacker, JD, director, Alcohol Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington

J. Edward Hill, MD, chair, Board of Directors, American Medical Association, Chicago

Ralph Hingson, ScD, professor of public health, Boston University School of Public Health

David H. Jernigan, PhD, research director, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, Georgetown University, Washington

Jeff Jessee, executive director, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage

Linda Major, interim director for student involvement and director, NU Directions, Division of Student Affairs, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

James F. Mosher, JD, Pacific Institute for Prevention and Evaluation, Felton, California

Sheila Nesbitt, community organizer, Minnesota Join Together, Minneapolis

Nadine Parker, executive director, National Capital Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking, Washington

Dwayne Proctor, PhD, senior communication officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey

Robin Room, PhD, director, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Stockholm University

Robert A. Saltz, PhD, associate director and senior research scientist, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley

Kathy Staples, manager, Prevention, Intervention and Training Division, Ventura County Behavioral Health, Alcohol and Drug Programs, Ventura, California

Mrs. Hope Taft, First Lady of Ohio, Columbus

Traci Toomey, PhD, assistant professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis

Emily Vinyard, Youth in Action, MADD Massachusetts, Westborough

Deborah K. Walker, EdD, associate commissioner for programs and prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston

Larry Wallack, DPH, professor of community health and director, School of Community Health, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University

Cheryl Vince Whitman, senior vice-president, Health and Human Development Programs, Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts

Glenn Wieringa, health educator, New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Richard A. Yoast, PhD, director, Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, American Medical Association, Chicago

 



 
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