 | Professor Mark BellisProfessor 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. |
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| Andrew M Bennett Andrew works for HIT and lectures at Liverpool John Moores University. 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. Whilst it is rare to see Andrew on a dance floor nowadays, he remains intrigued by music and other aspects of the ever changing night-time environment. |
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 | Amador CalafatAmador 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | Karen HughesKaren 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 exploring nightlife, substance use and sexual behaviour among young people. |
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 | 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. |
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 | 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. |
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 | Jose Alberto Villar Torres Alberto is a Professor and Social Worker, and a university expert in drug dependency and addictive behaviours. He has worked for more than 20 years in the field of drug dependency, including in the therapeutic community. For the last six years he has been head of the Prevention Section of the CEPCA (Prevention and Training Centre of Addictive Behaviours) of the Consell Insular de Ibiza y Formentera, developing a range of preventive programs and conducting research studies in these islands. |
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 | Javier Ruiz BlancoJavier Ruiz Blanco, a graduate in medicine and specialist in psychiatry, worked as a psychiatrist in the Mental Health Service of Ibiza in the period between 1983 and 1985. Since 1985 he has been the Head of the Council’s Section for Treatment of Drug Dependence and since 1999 has been the coordinator of the different social health care services of the Council: Youth and Family Drug Dependencies, Mental Health for Children, Psychiatric Disabilities and Chronic Mental Illness. |
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 | Paolo Bello
Paolo is a psycologist working in Drug and Alcohol Department at the Public Hospital in Belluno, Italy, where is project manager for prevention in nightlife settings . He is the coordinator of "Safe Night", the regional team for research and programmes in risk behaviour, alcohol and drug use, youth issues and social marketing. www.fuoriposto.it |
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| | Ninette van Hasselt
Ninette van Hasselt is the project manager of the Clubs and Drugs project at the Trimbos Institute - Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction. Her key role is to coordinate the development and dissemination of research based interventions to regional professionals involved in substance abuse prevention. Van Hasselt has been involved in public health for over 15 years, with a particular focus on campaigns and on clubbing and health. |
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