The Learning Objectives are:
- Describe the current situation of alcohol-related liver disease and alcohol use disorder associated burden
- Provide information regarding the effect of the implementation of public health policies to reduce ALD and AUD
- Learn the definitions and epidemiology of harmful alcohol consumption alcohol use disorder (AUD) alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD)
- Understand steps needed to impact future trends in alcohol harm to Canadians
- Describe how partnership-driven research with the health system can be leveraged for decision making.
- Explain how whole-population data can be used to understand trajectories of health service use among people who use alcohol.
- Learn how Canada’s Low Risk Drinking Guidelines were updated
- Learn how the updates guidelines can be used in clinical settings
Moderator: Abdel-Aziz Shaheen, University of Calgary, AB
8:05 - 8:25: Leveraging whole-population linked data to generate evidence to inform Alcohol Policy, Nathan Nickel, University of Manitoba, MB
8:25 - 8:45: Building Effective Population-Based Alcohol Policies: Canada’s new Guidance on Alcohol and Health, Catherine Paradis, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addictions, Ottawa, ON
8:45 - 9:05: Alcohol and Public Health Policy: Global Priorities, Juan Pablo Arab, Western University, London, Ontario
9:05 - 9:25: Improving Integration of Public Health and Hepatology: Where the Hepatologist Can Go from Here, Tasha Kulai, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
9:25 - 9:45: Panel Discussion/Q&A
