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	Professor Mark Bellis Professor Mark Bellis is Director of the Centre for Public Health (Liverpool John Moores University), the North West Public Health Observatory and the National Collaborating Centre for Drug Prevention. He leads a team of academics and professionals on national and international projects on alcohol and drug use, sexual behaviour, violence, and public health intelligence, including the UK Focal Point for Drugs (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs Prevention, EMCDDA). Mark is a founding member of Club Health and lead UK academic for IREFREA, an EU collaborative examining substance use (alcohol and drugs), sexual risk taking and prevention in recreational life across Europe. He is a member of the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance, a board member of Alcohol Concern and a member of the Medical Research Council’s College of Experts, and has been an expert advisor on Drug Prevention to the United Nations and the EMCDDA.

	Andrew M Bennett Andrew is the Managing Director of HIT. HIT delivers interventions on drugs, community safety and other public health concerns. The agency has implemented social marketing based interventions to protect the health of club-goers since the late 1980s. More recently HIT has also provided interventions concerned with a broader range of nightlife issues. www.hit.org.uk
	Amador Calafat Amador Calafat is a Psychiatrist working in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He has been actively involved in research and implementation of programmes in risk behaviour and drug prevention since 1980, He is the coordinator of the European research group IREFREA which conducts cross-national investigation of youth risk behaviour and substance use in nightlife settings. He is also the editor of the journal Adicciones.
	Paul Dillon Paul Dillon is currently employed as the Information/ Media Liaison Manager at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, where his key role is to disseminate research findings to policy makers, drug and alcohol workers and the general public. His current areas of interest are drug education, youth issues and the ecstasy/dance party culture.

	Karen Hughes Karen is Head of Behavioural Epidemiology at the Centre for Public Health (Liverpool John Moores University) where she manages a team of researchers examining issues relating to nightlife, nightlife tourism, alcohol use and violence. She is a member of the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance and the European IREFREA research collaboration examining nightlife, substance use and sexual behaviour among young people.

	Matej Kosir Matej Kosir graduated in political science at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He has worked in the field of drugs and drug addiction for last 8 years. He works at the Office for Drugs within the Ministry of Health. Recently he established a private institute (Utrip) for research and development of programmes especially in the field of preventing youth risk behaviour. He is involved in several European research and educational projects co-financed by the European Commission. He is also EDDRA (Exchange on Drug Demand Reduction Action) manager and Legal Correspondent for Slovenia in connection with the EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction). He is very active as a volunteer at the local level as a project manager of Local Action Group (LAG) of Municipality of Grosuplje (addiction prevention). He is a member of the Slovene Political Science Association and the Rotary Club Grosuplje.

	Professor Qutub Syed Professor Qutub Syed is the Director fo the Health Protection Agency North West as well as Honorary Professor for Public Health and Epidemiology at Liverpool John Moores University and Chester University. For the last 20 years Professor Syed has worked in the field of infection, drugs, sexual health and alcohol.