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PROF ROBIN ROOM



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Organization: Population Health
Position: CHAIR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH IN ALCOHOL (CHS)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Ars Baccalaureum Princeton University 15-Jun-1960
Master of Arts - English University of California - Berkeley 13-Jun-1962
Master of Arts - Sociology University of California - Berkeley 14-Jun-1967
Doctor of Philosophy - Sociology University of California - Berkeley 14-Jun-1978

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
HEALTH CREDITS: IDENTIFYING THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF LICENSED PREMISES AND TRANSLATING THEM INTO HEALTH OUTCOMES AT A LOCAL LEVEL Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES Victorian Department of Human Services Public Health Research Projects 01/05/2007
Alcohol and public health: the Australian experience Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009
Alcohol and child maltreatment through the windows of the child protection system and a national survey Principal Supervisor SIDNEY MYER FUND Sidney Myer Health Scholarship 27/04/2009
Liberalising liquor licensing - implications for alcohol-related hard Principal Supervisor SIDNEY MYER FUND Sidney Myer Health Scholarship 04/05/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Alcohol and infectious diseases: an overlooked causal linkage?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 104
    Page numbers: 331-332
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  • Does it matter where the drinking is, when the object is getting drunk?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 104
    Page numbers: 10-12
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  • Mapping Australian public opinion on alcohol policies in the new millennium
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 263-274
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  • Variations by age and sex in alcohol-related problematic behaviour per drinking volume and heavier drinking occasion
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 169-175
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  • Why do we need international regulations for alcohol control?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Nordisk alkohol- narkotikatidskrift)
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 447-450
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • "Justly anxious respecting the moral and material consequences": The proliferation of international control regimes for psychoactive substances
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 114-129
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  • (Response to Commentary) - Taylor et al. Respond to "Alcohol and trauma and chronic disease mortality"
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 168
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1130-1131
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  • Alcohol sales data are essential for good public policies towards alcohol
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 189
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 188-189
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  • Changes in volume of drinking after changes in alcohol taxes and travellers' allowances: results from a panel study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 103
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 181-191
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  • Dealing with publication bias: two possible steps forward
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 343-344
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  • Determination of lifetime injury mortality risk in Canada in 2002 by drinking amount per occasion and number of occasions
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 168
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1119-1125
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  • International regulation of alcohol
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Medical Journal
    Volume: 337
    Issue: Nov 6 online a2364
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  • Method for moderation: measuring lifetime risk of alcohol-attributable mortality as a basis for drinking guidelines
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 141-151
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  • Obstacles to a regulated cannabis market (rejoinder)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 798
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  • Should we recriminalize cannabis use? The case against
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 793-794
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  • The frequency of drinking in different sites in different Nordic areas, and the effects on it of changes in alcohol availability
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Nordisk alkohol- narkotikatidskrift)
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 253-268
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  • The societal cost of alcohol consumption: an estimation of the economic and human cost including health effects in Sweden, 2002
    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 351-360
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  • The two worlds of alcohol problems: who is in treatment and who is not?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Addiction Research and Theory
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 67-84
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  • [review of:] Benelong's Haven: Recovery from alcohol and drug abuse within an Aboriginal Australian residential treatment centre, by Richard Chenhall
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 96
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Reports

Publications in 2007

Books

  • Youth drinking cultures: European experiences
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Ashgate(Aldershot)
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Book Chapters

  • Conclusion: changing drunken comportment or reducing alcohol-related harm


    Year: 2007
    Book: Youth drinking cultures: European experiences
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  • Youth drinking cultures: European experiences


    Year: 2007
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  • Understanding cultural differences in young people's drinking
    Year: 2007
    Book: Youth drinking cultures: European experiences
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Journal Articles

  • Changing the density of alcohol outlets to reduce alcohol-related problems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 26
    Issue: September 2007
    Page numbers: 557-566
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  • Detrimental drinking patterns: Empirical validation of the pattern values score of the Global Burden of Disease 2000 study in 13 countries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Substance Use
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 337-358
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  • Increasing socioeconomic inequalities in male cirrhosis of the liver mortality: Australia 1981 – 2002
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 26
    Issue: May 2007
    Page numbers: 273-278
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  • National variations in the use of alcohol and drug research: notes of an itinerant worker
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (Nordisk alkohol- narkotikatidskrift)
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 634-640
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  • Social problems from drinking in the Swedish general population: measurement and reliability
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Substance Use
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 103-118
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Reports

  • Effects of major changes in alcohol availability: study design, data collection procedures and measurement
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 26
    Publisher: SoRAD(Stockholm)
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  • WHO Expert Committee on Problems Related to Alcohol Consumption: Second Report - WHO Technical Report Series
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 944
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Assessing the wisdom of funding DrinkWise
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 185
    Issue: 11/12
    Page numbers: 635-636
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  • Drinking patterns and their gender differences in Europe
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Alcohol and Alcoholism
    Volume: 41
    Issue: Supplement 1
    Page numbers: 8-18
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  • Global burden of disease from alcohol, illicit drugs and tobacco
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 25
    Issue: November 2006
    Page numbers: 503-513
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  • International control of alcohol: alternative paths forward
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 581-595
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  • Taking account of cultural and societal influences on substance use diagnoses and criteria
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 101
    Issue: Supplement 1
    Page numbers: 31-39
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Alcohol and public health
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 365
    Page numbers: 519-530
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  • Stigma, social inequality and alcohol and drug use
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 143-155
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Contribution of drinking patterns to differences in rates of alcohol related problems between three urban populations
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 238-242
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Intoxication and bad behaviour: understanding cultural differences in the link
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Social Science & Medicine
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 189-198
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