#ChangeTheWorld

While we're all responsible for our own health, it's important that laws, policies, organisational structures and our culture supports health too. It's challenging to make changes is these areas.

As part of our #ChangeTheWorld series we focus on Trinity people who have achieved political change to make it easy to be healthy.

Alcohol Legislation that Supports Health

First in our series is Professor Joe Barry who worked with the Alcohol Alliance to bring in Ireland's Alcohol Bill which is some of the strongest alcohol legislation in the world. While legislation to increase the price of alcohol isn't always popular with students, alcohol is responsible for 10 premature deaths a week in Ireland. To learn from Joe's experience of changing policy to effect lasting change, read here.