"WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT ALCOHOL?" Symposium

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Gerald Thomas
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Gerald Thomas is a Senior Research & Policy Analyst with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and a Collaborating Scientist with the Centre for Addictions Research of BC. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Colorado State University in 1998 and has worked in the area of Canadian alcohol policy since 2004. He served on the secretariat of the National Alcohol Strategy Working Group which created Canada’s first National Alcohol Strategy in 2007, and collaborated with Perry Kendall on A Public Health Approach to Alcohol Policy for British Columbia (2008).