Across the globe and in Australia men are more likely to drink than women. Men are more likely to drink more than women do when they do drink. And men are more likely to cause harm than women do when they drink. Women also report more harm than men from others’ drinking in the home and from people in their families. And, women and men are usually reporting harm from men’s drinking. In this presentation I present an overview of our results on alcohol’s harm to people beyond those who drink, and question why women and children, and also men are so often affected by men’s drinking.
 
Bio: Dr Anne-Marie Laslett is a veski* Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR). Having worked in public health on alcohol and drug epidemiology for over two decades, Anne-Marie is internationally renowned for her research on Alcohol's Harm to Others. She is a co-investigator and technical advisor to the World Health Organization/Thai Health Promotion Foundation International Collaborative Research Project on the Harm to Others from Drinking, Past-President of the Kettil Bruun Society for Epidemiological and Social Research on Alcohol and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research.