Dr. Adam Sherk
Adam is a Scientist with CISUR and a Researcher with our WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre for Alcohol and Public Health Policy. His research focuses on substance use epidemiology and alcohol policy research. He created the International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policy, an alcohol research platform used by countries worldwide to estimate alcohol-caused harms. He has created or consulted on national alcohol harms monitoring projects in Australia, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand and the US, in addition to Canada.
His current projects and interests include the Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms project, estimating the cancer prevention potential of Canada-wide alcohol policies (spoiler alert: a high potential!), and the Canadian Alcohol/Ethanol Supply (CA/ES) study, which monitors and characterizes the magnitude of the alcohol/ethanol supply in Canada.
Publications
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE): Federal Results
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE): Policy Domain Results (Federal)
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) 3.0: Best Practice Policy Leaders (Provincial/Territorial)
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) 3.0: Methodology and Evidence (Federal and Provincial/Territorial)
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE) 3.0 Project: Policy Domain Results Summary (Provincial/Territorial).
- 脡valuation des politiques canadiennes sur l鈥檃lcool (CAPE) 3.0 R茅sultats f茅d茅raux
- Finnish alcohol policy at the crossroads: The health, safety and economic consequences of alternative systems to manage the retail sale of alcohol
- Infographic: Alcohol and Calories
- M茅thodologie et revue des 茅l茅ments probants (脿 l鈥櫭ヽhelle f茅d茅rale, provinciale et territoriale)
- Projet 3.0 de l鈥櫭塿aluation des politiques canadiennes sur l鈥檃lcool (CAPE) : R茅sum茅 des r茅sultats par domaines d鈥檃ction (provinciaux et territoriaux)
- The potential of alcohol labelling to promote public health and safety in Canada: A Rapid Review
- What are the public health and safety benefits of the Swedish government alcohol monopoly?
Projects
- Alcohol and Health Web App
- An estimation of the health and economic costs of alcohol use in Finland and the impact on these of the privatization of the Finnish government alcohol monopoly, Alko
- A review of the evidence regarding alcohol and COVID-19
- BC Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) monitoring project
- BC Co/Lab
- Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation
- Developing an Internet based resource for reporting alcohol attributable harm in Australia
- Estimates of Alcohol-Attributable Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States and Analytic Methods
- Estimating the impact of alcohol use on health harms and the effects of having different price policies in Quebec
- Estimation of impacts on premature death, injury and hospitalisation of alternative approaches to federal alcohol taxes
- Evaluation of the public health impacts of Systembolaget, the Swedish government alcohol monopoly
- Impact of alcohol labelling on health outcomes in Canada
- Modelling the relationship between tax and price policies and impacts on alcohol consumption and harms in different socio-economic groups in Canada
- Review of methodologies used to estimate alcohol health harms, analysis of low alcohol doses on health protection and comparison of drinking and alcohol-caused harms in Australia and Canada
- The economic costs of substance use in Canada (CSUCH)
- The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies (InterMAHP)
- The potential impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing and alcoholic beverage labelling as a cancer prevention intervention in Canada, by socioeconomic status, at the national, provincial and territorial levels