Marcus Grant

Marcus Grant is president of the International Centre For Alcohol Policy, Former director of a UK-based NGO, Alcohol Education Centre, which provided national coordination of post-qualification training on alcohol problems for health and social service staff. The Alcohol Education Centre, based at Maudsley NHS Trust London, was one of four national bodies concerned with alcohol misuse in the UK, now replaced with Alcohol Concern and the Medical Council on Alcohol. Grant then worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO), where he was responsible for global activities on the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse. He resigned from WHO in 1994 to set up ICAP.

Marcus Grant and colleagues published a book in 1999 'Drinking Patterns and their Consequences' in the view of one reviewer the writers involvement with the Alcohol industry undermines their findings and essentially makes different policy recommendations than other more 'independent' experts when considering the same evidence. ^[1]

The context of the publication of Grant's book is worth mentioning. Two previous publications 'Alcohol Control Policies in Public Health Perspective' (1975), commonly known as the pink book, and 'Alcohol Policy and the Public Good' (Edwards 1992)