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Professor John Holmes is a Professor of Alcohol Policy at the University of Sheffield's School of Medicine and Population Health. He serves as Director of the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG), Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science, and Co-Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions. With a background in social policy and applied social science, his leadership spans a multidisciplinary team of approximately 25 researchers focusing on alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, gambling, and addiction.
- BA (Hons) in Applied Social Science, University of York
- MA in Social Policy, University of York
- PhD in Social Policy, University of York
His research focuses on alcohol consumption patterns, inequalities in alcohol-related harm, and policy evaluation through mathematical modeling. Key areas include the rise of alcohol-free drinks, declining youth drinking trends across high-income countries, event-level drinking analysis, and evaluation of policies like minimum unit pricing in Scotland. His work emphasizes the Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model development and application in international policy debates.
Recent publications demonstrate strong trends in analyzing alcohol-free beverage markets, temporal consumption patterns, socioeconomic disparities in alcohol harm, and policy impacts during economic crises. His research increasingly examines the intersection of alcohol policy with broader socioeconomic factors including the cost-of-living crisis and tax reforms.
Professor Holmes leads multiple major grants including a £5.0m NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions (2024-2028) as Co-Director, and a £2.0m NIHR Public Health Research project on alcohol duty reforms (2024-2027) as Joint Principal Investigator. His research portfolio spans alcohol policy modeling, youth drinking trends, minimum unit pricing evaluation, and multi-method studies of low-alcohol interventions.
As Director of SARG, he oversees research teams investigating alcohol policy impacts through epidemiological, economic, and psychological approaches. His group actively engages in public health policy debates through the NIHR Policy Research Unit and Wellcome-funded doctoral training, with particular focus on translating research into effective public health interventions.
