Dartmouth President Hopes to Apply Public-Health Lessons From Rwanda and Peru to Binge Drinking (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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As the 32-member Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking convenes in Austin, Texas, this week for its second meeting, the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed President Jim Yong Kim about the project.

On the assembly鈥檚 agenda: continuing to address binge drinking on college campuses, which Kim calls 鈥渢he most difficult problem I鈥檝e taken on yet.鈥� He continues: 鈥淜nowing what we know about the number of deaths, injuries, and sexual assaults, and knowing what we know about the impact on the developing brain, we have no choice.鈥�

The collaborative meets next in June at Dartmouth. Kim notes in the interview that the group expects to publish its findings following that final gathering.

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