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Dr John Boffa is a GP and the public health medical officer at the Central Australian Aboriginal Health Congress community-controlled Aboriginal health care service in Alice Springs. He has worked in central Australia for 25 years, in the Tennant Creek - Barkly region and in Alice Springs. Dr Boffa has a long-term and deep interest in campaigning for evidence-based alcohol reforms, especially through supply reduction, and in the need to improve the lives of Aboriginal children through early learning and maternal health programs. He is the spokesperson for the People’s Alcohol Action Coalition alcohol reform group.
