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NDRI researcher Dr William Gilmore has been awarded a highly competitive Australian Research Council funding grant through the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.

Dr Gilmore’s research project, ‘Addressing alcohol use and injury in Australia's ageing population’, will focus on the enormous and growing public health challenge of alcohol use in Australia’s rapidly ageing population.

The research project aims to inform and enable alcohol policy that prevents and reduces alcohol-related injury and disease to maximise the health and wellbeing of older Australians. It builds on Dr Gilmore’s alcohol research, including development of the interactive Australian alcohol-attributable harm visualisation tool and his PhD, which focused on how alcohol availability impacts use and related harm.

“Australia’s population is ageing rapidly and, despite a policy focus on young people’s drinking, there are concerning and persistent upward trends in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among our over 50s,” Dr Gilmore said.

“This project aims to establish a new scientific evidence base of community-level information to educate communities, governments, advocates, health practitioners and policy makers about alcohol’s impact on injury in our ageing population.

“Outcomes will advance understanding of an unaddressed problem and inform targeted policy and practice responses to prevent and reduce avoidable injury.”

Click here to find out more about Dr William Gilmore’s research