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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
105
Citations
117078
World Ranking
64
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Robin Room is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on substance use and public health issues. Their research encompasses a range of topics including substance abuse treatment, alcohol consumption effects, and global public health policies.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine, with subfields such as Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work often addresses complex health issues from multiple perspectives, integrating clinical and population health approaches.

Key topics in Robin Room's research cover:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Community Health and Development

Frequent co-authors of Robin Room include Anne-Marie Laslett, Jürgen Rehm, Sarah Callinan, Heng Jiang, and Michael Livingston. Collaboration with these researchers suggests engagement with interdisciplinary teams tackling diverse public health challenges.

The scholar has published extensively in journals including Drug and Alcohol Review, International Journal of Drug Policy, Addiction, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, and Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. The number of publications in these venues reflects a consistent contribution to addiction and public health literature.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Robin Room include:

  • Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG) for reducing health harms from non-medical cannabis use: A comprehensive evidence and recommendations update (2021), International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Trends in adolescent drinking across 39 high-income countries: exploring the timing and magnitude of decline (2020), European Journal of Public Health
  • Purchasing, consumption, demographic and socioeconomic variables associated with shifts in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), Drug and Alcohol Review
  • Setting Limits: Gambling, Science and Public Policy-summary of results (2020), Addiction
  • Alcohol control policy measures and all-cause mortality in Lithuania: an interrupted time-series analysis (2021), Addiction

Robin Room has also published a book titled Álcool: uma mercadoria nada comum: pesquisa e políticas públicas in 2023, released by Dialética eBooks. This work likely aligns with their ongoing focus on alcohol policy and public health implications.

Best Publications

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Alcohol and public health

    Robin Room;Thomas Babor;Jürgen T. Rehm

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

    Joshua A. Salomon;Theo Vos;Daniel R. Hogan;Michael Gagnon

  • The global, regional, and national burden of cirrhosis by cause in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Sadaf G. Sepanlou;Saeid Safiri;Catherine Bisignano;Kevin S. Ikuta

  • THE RELATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND BURDEN OF DISEASE - AN OVERVIEW

    Juergen Rehm;Juergen Rehm;Juergen Rehm;Dolly Baliunas;Dolly Baliunas;Guilherme L. G. Borges;Kathryn Graham;Kathryn Graham;Kathryn Graham

  • The relationship of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking to burden of disease: an overview.

    Jürgen T. Rehm;Robin Room;Kathryn Graham;Maristela Monteiro

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • The relationship between different dimensions of alcohol use and the burden of disease-an update.

    Jürgen Rehm;Gerhard E. Gmel;Gerrit Gmel;Omer S. M. Hasan

  • Stigma, social inequality and alcohol and drug use

    Robin Room

  • The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together

    Bruce Taylor;H. M. Irving;Fotis Kanteres;Robin Room;Robin Room

  • INTERNATIONAL GUIDE FOR MONITORING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND RELATED HARM

    Ediriweera B R Desapriya;Tim Stockwell;Sir Richard Doll;Robin Room

  • Alcohol: No ordinary commodity: Research and public policy, 2nd ed.

    Thomas Babor;Raul Caetano;Sally Casswell;Griffith Edwards

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: Disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    J.A. Salomon;T. Vos;D.R. Hogan;M. Gagnon

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston La Trobe University
Ingeborg Rossow
Ingeborg Rossow Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Kathryn Graham
Kathryn Graham Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Sally Casswell
Sally Casswell Massey University
Gerhard Gmel
Gerhard Gmel University of Lausanne
Jason Ferris
Jason Ferris University of Queensland
Norman Giesbrecht
Norman Giesbrecht Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Tanya Chikritzhs
Tanya Chikritzhs Curtin University
David R. Foxcroft
David R. Foxcroft Oxford Brookes University
Harold D. Holder
Harold D. Holder Pacific Institute

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