Drug Policy Alliance Primer on Reading Research

Global Alcohol Harm Network: Struggling or Emerging? A Response to Shiffman

Challenges Facing Global Health Networks: The NCD Alliance Experience; Comment on “Four Challenges that Global Health Networks Face”

Successful prevention and control of the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cannot be achieved by the health sector alone: a wide range of organisations from multiple sectors and across government must also be involved. This requires a new, inclusive approach to advocacy and to coordinating, convening and catalysing action across civil society, best achieved by a broad-based network. T...

Correction: Standardised tobacco packaging: a health policy case study of corporate conflict expansion and adaptation

Hatchard JL, Fooks GJ, Gilmore AB. Standardised tobacco packaging: a health policy case study of corporate conflict expansion and adaptation. BMJ Open 2016;6:e012634. On page 8, a sentence reads: ‘For example, in public communications former police officers did not declare membership of the Common Sense Alliance (a FOREST offshoot).’ The Common Sense Alliance is not an offshoot of FOREST. It wa...

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Do infrastructures impact on alcohol policy making?

INTRODUCTION The importance of building and strengthening effective infrastructures within the field of public health has increasingly been recognized. A wide variety of actors and structures can be identified for alcohol policy, including systems for policy development, monitoring, research and work-force development, but too little is known about the complex systems of infrastructure availabl...