Dr Sally Casswell

Professor Sally Casswell is a public health researcher, with a personal chair in social and health research. Her specialism is alcohol policy. Professor Casswell is the Director of SHORE (a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre) and Co-director of the SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand which she founded in 2002. Prior to this she was based at the University of Auckland as the Director of the Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit from 1980 – 2002 and held a teaching appointment in the Department of Community Health from 1996 – 2000. Professor Casswell’s research interests include the development and implementation of healthy public policy at the local, national and global level. She was responsible for the design and initiation of the International Alcohol Control study (www.IACstudy.org) and continues to co-ordinate international collaborative research on alcohol policy. Professor Casswell was a member of the Editorial Group and co –author for the Third Edition of Alcohol, No Ordinary Commodity (2022), an authoritative review of international alcohol policy.  She is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Expert Advisory Panel on Alcohol and Drug Dependence, was a founding member and is Chair of Board of the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance. Professor Casswell’s contribution to the CCE TAG will include a focus on the need for public policy  supportive  of health  including effective alcohol policy.