Faculty Research Fellow Ziming Xuan Gives Talk on India Alcohol Policy and Domestic Violence at APHA Annual Meeting

Ziming Xuan, an Associate Professor in BU’s School of Public Health and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk exploring the role of alcohol consumed by men in influencing the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) among married women in India. The talk, titled “Alcohol Consumption and Intimate Partner Violence in India: Exploring the Epidemiological Role of Alcohol Using a Nationally Representative Sample of Married Couples,” was given at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting, held from November 2-6 in Philadelphia. Prof. Xuan’s research found new evidence on the association of excessive alcohol consumption with various types of IPV in India, including sexual, emotional, and severe physical violence.

The APHA Annual Meeting and Expo is the largest and most influential annual gathering of public health professionals, with about 13,000 annual attendees.

The research presented at the meeting is part of Prof. Xuan’s work as a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, where he is establishing an interdisciplinary research program on the social and health issues related to alcohol use and misuse in China and India.