8th APN Symposium, Edinburgh (Scotland), 19th November 2018

Welcoming remarks

• Scottish Government
• WHO Regional Office for Europe
• Alcohol Policy Network (APN)
• European Commission
• Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems

PART 1: Alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable mortality in the EU

• Jürgen Rehm (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada)

Alcohol policies in the EU

• Lars Moeller (WHO/EURO)

The WHO SAFER initiative; an update from WHO/HQ

• J-Dag Rekve (WHO/HQ)

PART 2: Important recent developments

• Scotland, UK (Eric Carlin)
• Ireland (Suzanne Costello)
• Baltic countries (Lauri Beekmann)
• Spain (Joan Colom)
• Finland (Nina Rehn-Mendoza)

Key note

• Alcohol and cancer
  Jyotsna Vohra (CRUK, London)
• Civil society advocating measures to reduce alcohol related cancers
  Anne Lise Ryel (Norwegian Cancer Society)

PART 3: The role of primary care and SBI

• Scotland, UK (Peter Rice)
• Spain (Lidia Segura)
• Russian Federation (Eugenia Fadeeva)
• Portugal (Frederico Rosario)
• Italy (Emanuele Scafato)
• Slovenia (Tadeja Hočevar)

PART 4: Control of digital marketing 

• Nathan Critchlow & Gerard Hastings (University of Stirling)
• Anu Katainen (Universty of Helsinki)
• Tadeja Hočevar (Nat Inst Public Health)

PART 5: In relation to the role of the industry Chair: Joan Colom

• The labeling issue (Tiziana Codenotti, EUROCARE)
• Drinking guidelines (Wietske ten Berge, Folkhälsomyndigheten)
• The APN Guidance paper, 1 year later (Jim McCambridge)

Closure