# Robin Room
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{{short description|Australian sociologist and researcher (born 1939)}}
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| name = Robin Gerald Walden Room
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| birth_place = [Australia](/source/Australia)
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| fields = [Public health](/source/Public_health), health effects of legal and [illegal drug](/source/illegal_drug)s, [sociology](/source/sociology)
| workplaces = Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, [La Trobe University](/source/La_Trobe_University), [Stockholm University](/source/Stockholm_University)
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| alma_mater = [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University), [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley).
| thesis_title = Governing images of alcohol and drug problems: the structure, sources, and sequels of conceptualizations of intractable problems
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| thesis_year = 1978
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| awards = [Jellinek](/source/E._Morton_Jellinek) Award (co-winner, 1983), Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Drug and Alcohol Endeavours (2012)
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'''Robin Gerald Walden Room''' (born 28 December 1939)[{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tf09BCmodB0C |title=Q-S |publisher=Gale Group |year=2005 |page=302|isbn=9780787673987 }}] is an Australian sociologist and researcher who studies the health effects of alcohol and other drugs. From 2015 - 2017 he was the director of the [https://www.latrobe.edu.au/research/centres/health/capr Centre for Alcohol Policy Research] at [La Trobe University](/source/La_Trobe_University), formerly at [Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre](/source/Turning_Point_Alcohol_and_Drug_Centre) in [Fitzroy, Victoria](/source/Fitzroy%2C_Victoria), Australia, as well as the Professor of Alcohol Policy Research at the School of Population Health of the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne), since March 2006.[{{cite web | url=http://www.capr.edu.au/about-us/our-people/professor-robin-room/ | title=Professor Robin Room | work=CAPR | accessdate=26 December 2015}}] Room is currently Distinguished Professor at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at [La Trobe University](/source/La_Trobe_University). He is also a professor at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at [Stockholm University](/source/Stockholm_University).
==Education==
Room received his B.A. from [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) in English in 1960, and his two M.A.'s (the first in English, the second in sociology) from the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) in 1962 and 1967, respectively. He later received his PhD in sociology from Berkeley in 1978.[{{cite web | url=http://www.robinroom.net/CV.html | title=Curriculum Vitae | work=Robinroom.net | accessdate=26 December 2015}}]
==Career==
Room began working at the [National Alcohol Research Centre](/source/National_Alcohol_Research_Centre) in [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California) in 1963 and remained there until 1991. He became the centre's scientific director in 1977.[ From 1991 to 1998, he worked at the [Addiction Research Foundation](/source/Addiction_Research_Foundation) in [Canada](/source/Canada), as their vice president for research.][ In 1999, he was appointed professor and founding director of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at [Stockholm University](/source/Stockholm_University),][ where he is still a professor as of December 2010.][ In 2006, he joined both the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research and the University of Melbourne in 2006.][{{cite web | url=http://www.robinroom.net/ | title=Robin Room website | accessdate=26 December 2015}}]
==Research==
Room's research pertains to alcohol, illegal drugs, and gambling behavior.[ For example, in a 2005 study, Room and his co-authors Thomas Babor and Jurgen Rehm found that about 4% of the [global burden of disease](/source/Disease_burden) was attributable to alcohol consumption, about the same amount as tobacco consumption.][{{cite journal|last1=Room|first1=Robin|last2=Babor|first2=Thomas|last3=Rehm|first3=Jürgen|title=Alcohol and public health|journal=The Lancet|date=February 2005|volume=365|issue=9458|pages=519–530|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)17870-2|pmid=15705462|pmc=5936368 }}][{{cite web | url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/study-alcohol-kills-as-many-as-tobacco | title=Study: Alcohol Kills as Many as Tobacco | work=Fox News | date=4 February 2005 | access-date=26 December 2015 | author=WebMD}}]
==Editorial activities==
Room is the [editor-in-chief](/source/editor-in-chief) of the peer-reviewed journal ''[Drug and Alcohol Review](/source/Drug_and_Alcohol_Review)''.[
==Honors and awards==
Room received the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the [Drug Policy Alliance](/source/Drug_Policy_Alliance) in 2015.][{{cite web | url=http://idpc.net/alerts/2015/11/robin-room-wins-dpa-award-for-achievement-in-the-field-of-scholarship | title=Robin Room wins DPA award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship | work=International Drug Policy Consortium | date=13 November 2015 | accessdate=26 December 2015}}] He has also received the [Jellinek](/source/E._Morton_Jellinek) Award for Alcohol Studies in 1983,[ the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section of the [American Public Health Association](/source/American_Public_Health_Association) in 2002,][ and the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Drug and Alcohol Endeavours in 2012.][ Robin Room was a founding member and the inaugural President of the International [http://www.kettilbruun.org Kettil Bruun Society] ][Room, Robin. "The Kettil Bruun Society: an international forum for social and epidemiological research on alcohol." Addiction 94, no. 11 (1999): 1621.] and was established as Honorary President in recognition of his service in 2011.
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==External links==
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