Webinar: Addressing the Three Biggest Killers Regionally and Locally
This webinar, held on the 7 July 2025, launched the new toolkit to support regions and local authorities to tackle alcohol and unhealthy food and drink, learning from successful tobacco policy. Each year, thousands of people in our communities are harmed by the three big killers - tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) have worked closely with colleagues in Humber and North Yorkshire and Greater Manchester to develop the new toolkit to support regional and local areas to take coherent action on alcohol and unhealthy food and drink industries, learning lessons from tobacco control.
This webinar was chaired by Jilla Burgess-Allen, Director of Public Health, Stockport and included the following presentations:
- Introduction, Peter Roderick, Director of Public Health, York
- Why take a coherent approach? Dr Robyn Burton, Senior Research Fellow International Alcohol Policy and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Alcohol Policy and Public Health Research, University of Stirling
- What role do local authorities have? Jilla Burgess-Allen, Director of Public Health Stockport
- What role do ICBs/regions have? Dr Nigel Wells, Executive Director of Clinical and Professional, Humber and North Yorkshire ICB
- National Toolkit for regional and local action, Caroline Cerny, Deputy Chief Executive at ASH and Elaine Londesborough-van Rooyen, Public Health Registrar at ASH
- Community Mobilisation in Greater Manchester, Jessica Holloway, Strategic Lead, Population Health, NHS GM ICB
- Advertising and sponsorship Policy in York, Philip Truby, Public Health Specialist Practitioner in York
- Hot Food Takeaway policy in Hull, Joanne Arro, Commissioning and Service Development Manager at Hull City Council
The webinar slides are available for download, here.