Workshops & Meetings at GAPC 2023, Cape Town, South Africa: October 23rd-26th
ICARA was pleased to host three events alongside the Global Alcohol Policy Conference 2023 in October, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Advocacy Workshop
On October 23rd, ICARA hosted an advocacy workshop themed “Working together – collaboration across researchers, policymakers and practitioners towards a better alcohol policy”. The workshop was led by our Immediate Past President, Matej Košir and was well-attended by researchers, practitioners and public health advocates. As part of this session we invited guest speaker Prof. Tom Babor, to present on ‘Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity 3‘, a comprehensive guide on effective, global strategies and interventions to reduce alcohol harm.
Annual General Meeting and General Assembly
A new ICARA board was elected on 23rd October for the term 2023-2025. You can find out more about our new board here.
Research Capacity Strengthening workshop
On 24th October, we held at workshop for researchers and practitioners who attended the GAPC conference, focusing on their needs in relation to strengthening research capacity and building research collaborations. This workshop builds on the workshop that ICARA led at the KBS 2023 conference.
Research Capacity Strengthening workshop at KBS 2023, Johannesburg, South Africa: June 5th-9th
We were proud to host a hybrid research workshop at the Kettil Bruun Society 2023 Conference on Tuesday 6th June. The workshop aimed to explore the Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs research capacity strengthening needs across the world, as well as developing potential research partnerships with researchers from the Global South. We built on the existing research capacity and expertise of participants and the assets that we had to discuss ways to address identified research capacity.
