Robin Gerald Walden Room | |
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| Born | 28 December 1939 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Jellinek Award (co-winner, 1983), Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Drug and Alcohol Endeavours (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Public health, health effects of legal and illegal drugs, sociology |
| Institutions | Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health of the University of Melbourne, Stockholm University |
| Thesis | Governing images of alcohol and drug problems: the structure, sources, and sequels of conceptualizations of intractable problems (1978) |
| Website | www |
Robin Gerald Walden Room (born 28 December 1939)[1] is an Australian sociologist and researcher who studies the health effects of alcohol and other drugs. From 2015 - 2017 he was the director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University, formerly at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, as well as the Professor of Alcohol Policy Research at the School of Population Health of the University of Melbourne, since March 2006.[2] He is also a professor at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University.
- ^ Q-S. Gale Group. 2005. p. 302. ISBN 9780787673987.
- ^ "Professor Robin Room". CAPR. Retrieved 26 December 2015.