Lindsey Friend is a Research Training and Career Development Program Officer (Health Science Administrator) in the Office of Research Training, Diversity, and Health Disparities at the National institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Her priority is to assist NIDAs extramural research training and career development programs. Lindsey received her doctorate in neuroscience from Brigham Young University where she studied cocaine and cannabinoid effects on reward circuitry. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development studying glutamate receptor physiology before joining NIDA in 2020.

Jennifer Hobin, Ph.D.

Dr. Hobin is Director of NIDA’s Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC), where she provides strategic leadership and guidance in policy, communications, legislative affairs, and stakeholder relations. Prior to joining NIDA as OSPC’s Deputy Director in 2018, Dr. Hobin served as Chief of the Science Policy Branch at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She previously served as the Director of Science Policy at both the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), the nation’s largest coalition of biomedical researchers. While at AACR and FASEB, she worked with NIH grantees to advance policies on a host of research and public health issues, including tobacco control, research funding, peer review, human subjects protections, and scientific training and career development. Trained in psychology and neuroscience, Dr. Hobin transitioned from laboratory research into science policy via the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship program at the National Academies. She earned her Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Michigan where she studied neurobiological circuits involved in fear memory retrieval.

Michal Miovský is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He was appointed as professor in clinical psychology at Charles University in 2012. In 2005 he was appointed as the head of the Centre for Addictology at the Department of Psychiatry of the 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague. In January 2012 he became the head of the Department of Addictology, an independent institution created by the merger of the Centre for Addictology and the Addiction Treatment Unit of the General University Hospital (“U Apolináře”). Since 2008 he has held the office of the Vice-dean for non-medical study programmes at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague. From 2016 to 2018 he was the president of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE). In 2016 he became a founding member of the International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction (ICUDDR) and in 2017 he was elected the first ever president of this international organisation following its incorporation. In 2021 he become member of board of directors of International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP). He is a permanent member of the Scientific Board of Charles University and a member of the Scientific Board of the Czech Health Minister.

Website: RG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michal_Miovsky 

Dr. Susana Henriques, Ph.D. in Sociology, is an Assistant Professor with habilitation at the Portuguese Open University (UAb), Department of Education and Distance Learning, and a researcher.

Ma. Veronica Felipe is a Registered Psychologist, a Licensed Professional Teacher, and an Internationally Credentialed Addictions Professional. She is an Associate Professorial Lecturer at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and is the Director of the Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Continuing Professional Development at De La Salle-College of St Benilde. 

As the 10th Director of the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme (DAP), she was responsible for global programs on credentialing, curriculum design, training, substance use prevention and treatment initiatives, technical assistance, and multilateral collaborations. Prior to joining DAP, she held various academic positions, including OIC of Student Affairs, Associate Dean of the College of Human Development, and Chairperson of the Psychology Department at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.

She is a Drug Demand Reduction Global Master Trainer and has conducted over 40 trainings throughout Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. She also served as a Technical Advisor to the Department of Education’s Preventive Drug Education resource material and is currently part of the DOST initiative: Development of Multi-lingual Chatbot for Health Monitoring of Public-School Children. 

Miss Felipe earned her Bachelor of Science degree, Cum Laude, in Psychology and Master of Arts Degree in Clinical Psychology from PLM. She has completed 36 units of coursework towards her Doctorate Degree in Educational Psychology. She is a member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS) and is currently the Training and Education Committee Chairman of the International Consortium of the University Drug Demand Reduction, Asia-Pacific.

Dr. Kevin Mulvey is an Applied Sociologist with over 30 years of experience in the prevention and treatment of Substance Use Disorder. He had been with SAMHSA for 22 years. He has experience working as a Senior Technical Advisor for HIV and Drug Use Prevention and Treatment Interventions. Since 2020, he was a Senior Public Health Advisor within SAMHSA. His last position was as the Program Development Lead in the Office of Prevention Innovation within the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. His focus was on policy, data strategies, performance monitoring and evaluation for the office and CSAP leadership. He as has held positions with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Division of Systems Development as the Acting Division Director, and the Chief of the Performance and Technical Assistance Branch. His previous projects at CSAP involve the development and implementation of sound prevention programming through training and technical assistance, materials development and dissemination, and program monitoring and evaluation. From 2007 to 2020, he worked in the SAMHSA PEPFAR Program. His last assignment to Hanoi where he was the Regional Substance Abuse Treatment Advisor. He also had assignments in the Ukraine and Central Asia Republic Region (August 2016-August 2018). He has done prevention, treatment and recovery work in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Burma, and Ukraine.

An Applied Sociologist he as has held positions with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Division of Services Improvement and the Division of Pharmacological Treatments as Sr. Public Health Advisor. His previous projects at CSAT involved the development and implementation of sound treatment programming through training and technical assistance, materials development and dissemination, and program monitoring and evaluation.

He is both a program evaluator having directed several research programs in the field of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention. He has work in clinical programs as a counselor and intake staff particularly in Boston. Prior to Federal Service Dr. Mulvey worked in the Massachusetts Department of Health within the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services and the Boston Public Health Commission within the Office of Health, Research and Data Systems. He has a Graduate Certificate in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, a PhD from Northeastern University in Sociology, a MA in Applied Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

He is a Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Northeastern University where he received the 1998 Garth Pittman Award for Teaching Excellence and currently teaches distance learning hybrid courses in the Opioid Crisis, Alcoholism: Etiology and Epidemiology, Alcoholism: Treatment and Prevention, Sociology of AIDS, Drugs and Society, Research Methods, Techniques of Data Analysis and Statistics.

Website: www.icuddr.org

Anja Busse
Programme Officer at the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section of the UNODC Drugs, Laboratory and Scientific Services Branch – has been involved since 2005 in the implementation of UNODC’s global projects on drug dependence treatment and care in different functions. She is a Psychology graduate (University of Berlin, Germany) with further training in Public Health (Medical School Hanover, Germany), Systemic Psychotherapy and Media Pedagogics. Her current functions include the coordination of the UNODC-WHO Programme on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care.

Website: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treatment-and-care/index.html

Chief, UNODC Prevention, Treatment & Rehabilitation Section - Ms. Giovanna Campello has more than 25 years of experience with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in supporting Member States and stakeholders at all levels in improving their drug prevention response applying and contributing to scientific evidence. Most notably in this context, she has led the publication of the International Standards of Drug Use Prevention in 2013 and the UNODC/WHO second updated edition in 2018. Since 2016, she has been leading the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, thus promoting evidence-based, gender- and human-rights-sensitive practice on drug prevention, treatment, care and rehabilitation, as well as access to controlled medicines.

Website: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-prevention-and-treatment/index.html

Bryce Pardo is associate director of the Drug Policy Research Center and a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on drug policy with a particular interest in the areas of cannabis regulation, opioid control, and new psychoactive substance markets. He has over ten years of experience working with national, state, and local governments in crime and drug policy. Recently, he has provided Congressional testimony about his research on illicit supply of fentanyl to several subcommittees within the U.S. House of Representatives.

Prior to joining RAND, Pardo served five years as a legislative and policy analyst at the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) within the Organization of American States (OAS) where he worked directly with policymakers and practitioners. He has independently consulted with multi-lateral institutions, including the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Pardo also served as lead analyst with BOTEC Analysis Corporation to support the Government of Jamaica in drafting medical cannabis regulations.

His research and academic works have been published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Addiction, Lancet Psychology, Criminology and Public Policy, and reports for the London School of Economics, UNODC, PAHO, and the National Academy of Sciences. Pardo holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Maryland, College Park and an M.A. in Latin American studies and a B.A. in political science from the George Washington University.

Professor Sir John Strang is a medic and an academic and has an active interest in the contribution science can make to better public policy and practice. He is a co-author of ‘Drug Policy & the Public Good’. He is Director of the National Addiction Centre (NAC) and Head of the Addictions Department at King’s College London (U.K.). He leads the ‘Lifestyle Substance Use & Harms’ theme as part of the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) in Mental Health and co-Leads the Addictions Clinical Academic Group of Kings Health Partners AHSC (Academic Health Science Centre). He has been an addictions psychiatrist for 40 years, and has led the group at the Maudsley/Institute since 1995. He has published >500 scientific papers in the addiction field and has contributed to national and international policy. He has worked with a range of governmental and non-governmental organisations and pharmaceutical and tech companies to identify and study treatments potentially applicable in treatment of addictions and related problems. He has particularly driven the concept and practice of take-home naloxone and contributed to new non-injectable forms and has been named in patent applications, and the university has registered intellectual property on a novel buccal naloxone formulation. He led the U.K. randomised trial of supervised injectable heroin maintenance (RIOTT) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20511018/ and the subsequent review of European supervised heroin treatment services https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/insights/heroin-assisted-treatment_en . In 2016, he was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for ‘services to Medicine, Addictions and Public Health’. For fuller information see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/addictions/people/hod.aspx

Dr. Elaine Hyshka is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Systems Innovation at the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health. Her program of health systems and services research is focused on advancing a public health approach to substance use in Canada. She works closely with service providers, health authorities, people with lived experience of substance use, and all levels of government to develop, evaluate, and scale systems innovations for improving health outcomes and advancing health equity.

Website: https://www.whyscs.ca/

Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes is a Professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, a Canada Research Chair in Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health and a Research Scientist at the Centre for Health Outcomes Evaluation, Providence Health Care. She obtained her degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cordoba (Argentina), a PhD in Social Psychology & Behavioural Sciences Methodology in Spain and post-doctoral studies at the Andalusian School of Public Health. Her main research area is in Public Health and Addiction, with a focus on innovative treatments for opioid use disorder, such as injectable opioid agonist treatment, for people whose needs are not met by the health care system. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health. Current projects include working with service users and providers to optimize the uptake and effectiveness of these treatments that are trying to expand in Canada, using a person-centred care approach.

Brandon Marshall is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health

Jennifer Hobin, Ph.D.

Dr. Hobin is Director of NIDA’s Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC), where she provides strategic leadership and guidance in policy, communications, legislative affairs, and stakeholder relations. Prior to joining NIDA as OSPC’s Deputy Director in 2018, Dr. Hobin served as Chief of the Science Policy Branch at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She previously served as the Director of Science Policy at both the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), the nation’s largest coalition of biomedical researchers. While at AACR and FASEB, she worked with NIH grantees to advance policies on a host of research and public health issues, including tobacco control, research funding, peer review, human subjects protections, and scientific training and career development. Trained in psychology and neuroscience, Dr. Hobin transitioned from laboratory research into science policy via the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship program at the National Academies. She earned her Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Michigan where she studied neurobiological circuits involved in fear memory retrieval.

Alice works as a consultant on corruption-related issues at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Headquarter in Vienna. On the national level, she worked within the framework of the Austrian Development Cooperation, including the Austrian Development Bank and a local women’s rights organization in the Global South. She holds a Master’s degree in Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.

Alan S. Johnson currently serves as Chief Assistant State Attorney for the 15^th Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Florida.  He has previously served as Executive Director of the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics. As an Assistant State Attorney for 25 years, Mr. Johnson has prosecuted numerous high profile felony cases.

In 2016, Mr. Johnson was asked to lead the State Attorney’s Sober Homes Task Force (SHTF), established by the Florida Legislature to address fraud and abuse in the treatment and sober homes industries.  SHTF legislation has passed unanimously in 5 of the last 6 legislative sessions. The law enforcement side of the SHTF investigated and filed 121 cases for violating Florida’s healthcare fraud and patient brokering laws, resulting in 104 convictions to date.

Mr. Johnson graduated from Columbia University in 1973 and obtained his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.

Substance Use Disorder Subject Matter Expert

Carmen E. Albizu-Garcia, MD, is professor in the Evaluation and Evaluation Research master’s program at the Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, and a funded researcher in the institution’s Center for Evaluation and Sociomedical Research. Her research trajectory has focused on issues related to health services utilization for mental and drug use disorders in the general population and among persons under criminal justice supervision, with particular interest in the structural factors contributing to the adverse effects of public as well as internalized stigma on treatment access and outcomes. In collaboration with Prof. Oscar Miranda-Miller from the UPR School of Law, they completed a study in 2020 funded by the Open Societies Foundations, disseminated as a report, that addresses vulnerabilities of homeless Puerto Ricans with an OUD and its relation to human traffic from which today’s presentation is derived..

Daniela is a public policy professional with experience working in the fields of anti-corruption, health and sustainable development. She is interested in how anti-corruption measures can lead to more equitable access to health services and better health outcomes.

At U4, she conducts research and provides policy support to the Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability for Health Alliance (CATCH).

Previously, she was a researcher at Transparency International Global Health. She developed research funding proposals, engaged with WHO and the private sector, and conducted policy advocacy as part of the Action for Global Health Network. She also worked as Research Fellow at the United Nations System Staff College, contributing to learning and training initiatives for sustainable development. There, she worked with UNDP to design and develop the online course “Anti-Corruption in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.

Daniela holds a Bachelor of Political, Economic, and Social Sciences (Honours) from the University of Sydney, and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Dr. Elizabeth Sáenz

Elizabeth is a paediatrician, MSc PHDC (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MSc MCH, ICH, University College London, UK) and works with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section  since 2007 as an expert on drug dependence treatment, and since between 2010 and 2019 as global project coordinator. In this role, she was responsible for the coordination of a portfolio of drug treatment global projects such as Treatnet II and the UNODC-WHO joint programme on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care. These programmes aim at enhancing the institutional knowledge and understanding of the Governments, civil society, and UN agencies of evidence-based drug treatment, and at developing and/or improving national, governmental, and inter-governmental policies, strategies, plans and cooperation on this issue.  She has also been involved in the development of key technical tools publications produced by UNODC over the past ten years. From 2020, Dr. Sáenz, took on the position as WHO-UNODC Liaison Officer in Geneva, with the aim of promoting the UNODC‐WHO program on drug dependence treatment and care among WHO stakeholders and the dissemination of products of UNODC‐WHO collaboration at WHO meetings and international fora, especially of the “Geneva eco-system”. She has also been involved in the development of key technical tools publications produced by UNODC over the past ten years. Elizabeth Sáenz is a mother of two.

Anja Busse
Programme Officer at the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section of the UNODC Drugs, Laboratory and Scientific Services Branch – has been involved since 2005 in the implementation of UNODC’s global projects on drug dependence treatment and care in different functions. She is a Psychology graduate (University of Berlin, Germany) with further training in Public Health (Medical School Hanover, Germany), Systemic Psychotherapy and Media Pedagogics. Her current functions include the coordination of the UNODC-WHO Programme on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care.

Website: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treatment-and-care/index.html

Katherine Elkington, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, Associate Professor of Medical Clinical Psychology, in Psychiatry, at Columbia University and a Research Scientist and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She serves as the Director of the Center for Behavioral Health and Youth Justice (CBHJY). Dr. Elkington has over 15 years of research experience in justice settings, with expertise in understanding correlates of mental illness, substance use/disorders and HIV risk behaviors and using these data to develop and implement prevention programming, and in understanding multi-level barriers to treatment access for justice-involved individuals. Most recently, her work has focused on the development and evaluation of implementation interventions to increase access to behavioral health and health services, of which a centerpiece is building cross-system relationships between justice and community treatment systems. She has served as the PI or co-I on numerous NIH- and CDC-funded awards.

Website: https://childadolescentpsych.cumc.columbia.edu/center-behavioral-health-youth-justice; https://projectreach.nyspi.org/

DEOKIE SINTRA MAHARAJ

Kara L. Rose is a Senior Police Advisor with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Technical Assistance Division (INL/TAD) providing technical law enforcement expertise, policy analysis, and program guidance. Her portfolio includes Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, and Pakistan. She has over 30 years of law enforcement experience, retiring as an executive staff officer from a large U.S. municipal police agency. Her experience includes training conceptualization, development, and gap analysis for all law enforcement disciplines; accreditation; police oversight and accountability, program management, special operations, organizational development, human resources, and executive level command leadership. During her law enforcement career, she directed the operations of uniformed patrol, special operations, support operations, and administrative operations. She is an experienced narcotics and vice investigator, firearms instructor, Taser® Instructor, and police trainer. Additionally, she has vast experience conducting and managing internal investigations. During her law enforcement career, Kara traveled throughout the United States supporting agencies as a subject matter expert in the development, administration, and analysis of promotional testing and assessment centers. Kara is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, FBI National Academy Alumni Association, and the National Tactical Officers Association. She holds an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice, a Master of Public Administration, and a certificate of graduate studies in leadership. Kara is a graduate of the 259th Session of the FBI National Academy.

Marya Hynes is the Head of the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID), the research and analysis branch of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), where she has worked since 1997. She received her Master's degree in Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1997, specializing in the epidemiology of addiction and psychiatric disorders. At CICAD, Ms. Hynes develops and leads epidemiology-based research programs to monitor and evaluate the drug problem in the Western Hemisphere.

Prior to her work at CICAD, Ms. Hynes was the assistant director of the Prescott House in Arlington, Massachusetts, a treatment facility for young adults in recovery from substance abuse and psychiatric illness. Ms. Hynes has authored various reports and scientific articles on drug use in the Americas. She is a member of the scientific advisory board for the UNODC World Drug Report and other international working groups and speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently. Her leadership in drug use epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean has received international recognition.

Website: http://www.cicad.oas.org/main/default_eng.asp

Mr. Rogers Mutaawe is a social worker, working as a Senior Program Manager with Uganda Youth Development Link. He is a U.S Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, 2015-16 at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently the In Country Coordinator for the Uganda Community Coalitions for the past 4 years. Mr. Mutaawe has implemented substance abuse prevention community grassroot projects and participated in advocacy efforts which influenced the development and approval of Uganda’s national alcohol policy through engagement with policy makers, the media and partner organizations. He has been involved in the planning and execution of ground breaking alcohol research projects in collaboration with Georgia State University, and he co-authored three reports about the state of alcohol and drug abuse in Uganda and published journal articles. Mutaawe has a passion for lobbying, advocacy, research and evaluation of alcohol use prevention programs.

Website: www.uydel.org

Mr. Bohm Mawouena K. is Deputy Permanent Secretary of “Comité National Anti-Drogue,” a state drug policy agency that oversees drug demand reduction and supply of the Republic of Togo. He has held that position since 2017, after his Humphrey Fellowship Program in the USA. He has been involved in the development and implementation of his country’s drug policy strategies, supporting state agencies, civil society organizations, families, and youth-facing addiction matters.

During his fellowship year, Mr. Mawouena did his professional affiliation with Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, organizations that promote a healthy lifestyle for youth and a safe environment through scientific approaches and evidence-based prevention interventions.

An International Certified Addiction Professional, Mr. Mawouena has 15 years of experience working in the field of drug demand reduction. Recently, he attended the UNODC Global DDR training through which he gained knowledge and experience in conducting effective DDR training initiatives. He is a Global Master Trainer for Drug Advisory Program for Universal Treatment Curriculum and he has trained health professionals in Cameroon, Tunisia, and Togo.

In 2018, Mr. Mawouena collaborated with the UNODC bureau of West and Centre of Africa Rosen in Dakar, as a regional consultant in supporting the implementation of the regional drug action plan of ECOWAS by providing technical assistance to Civil Society Organizations in developing and implementing innovative initiatives in preventing youth substance use in Burkina Faso, Capo Verde, Liberia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and Mauritania. He is resource person for the ECOWAS Commission and has had facilitating trainings for the benefit of the West African Civil Society Organizations involved in drug demand reduction.

Mr. Mawouena is working currently on his Doctoral project on adolescent families facing addiction issues in France.

Lindsey Friend is a Research Training and Career Development Program Officer (Health Science Administrator) in the Office of Research Training, Diversity, and Health Disparities at the National institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Her priority is to assist NIDAs extramural research training and career development programs. Lindsey received her doctorate in neuroscience from Brigham Young University where she studied cocaine and cannabinoid effects on reward circuitry. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development studying glutamate receptor physiology before joining NIDA in 2020.

Website: https://nida.nih.gov/about-nida/organization/offices/office-nida-director-od/office-research-training-diversity-disparities-ortdd/office-research-training

Dr. J. Randy Koch is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned his doctorate in community psychology from Michigan State University in 1985. Prior to joining VCU in 2003, he was the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, a position he held since 1989. In this position, he was responsible for evaluating publicly-funded behavioral healthcare services in Virginia, conducting a wide range of needs assessments and policy studies, and facilitating the translation of research into practice and policy. Since joining VCU, his research interests have focused primarily on the prevention of youth tobacco use and methods for improving the quality of substance abuse services, both within the US and internationally. Among his current projects, Dr. Koch is a Co-PI for the Virginia Youth Tobacco Projects, a statewide, multi-university research program on the causes and prevention of youth tobacco use, and he is the director of the VCU Humphrey Fellowship Program on Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Policy that brings mid-career professionals from low and middle-income countries to VCU for advanced leadership and technical training.

ERIC SIERVO, M.ED.
Vice President, International

Mr. Siervo serves as the Vice President of the International Department at CADCA. He oversees, directs, supervises, and monitors quality standards for the daily operations of CADCA's training programs to develop community coalitions in foreign countries. During his 14 years of service at CADCA, he has been responsible for developing, administering, and implementing CADCA's international training delivery systems and international operations. These efforts have resulted in a global network of over 300 community coalitions in 28 countries on five continents in 7 languages with the active participation of more than 11,500 trained volunteers. Mr. Siervo is also CADCA's primary point of contact for national governments, state department personnel, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Before joining the CADCA staff, Mr. Siervo served as a board member for the National Capital Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking (NCCPUD). In addition, he was a volunteer member of the D.C. Tobacco Coalition in the District of Columbia. He also served the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT) in the capacity of Program Director. Prior to his public health career on substance use and misuse, he earned a master's degree in International Education from Framingham State University and an undergraduate degree in International Relations with a Minor in Business from the University of Mobile.

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