meet our team
Naomi is the Executive Director of Harm Reduction International. She is an expert on harm reduction and drug policy, bringing nearly two decades of international work experience at the intersection of law, HIV, human rights and public health.
Naomi previously worked for the Open Society Foundations, leading a portfolio of funding and policy engagement that supported civil society to challenge the negative impact of drug policy on access to controlled medicines, and strengthen access to justice for people who use drugs.
Between 2009 and 2014, Naomi worked in a regional capacity for the HIV and Health Law Program at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), posted in Indonesia, Nepal and Uganda. In partnership with local organisations in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea, Naomi implemented programmes advancing the rights of populations vulnerable to HIV via legal services and national human rights mechanisms. Naomi spent the first five years of her career practising law in Australia, in the private sector and as a pro bono legal adviser at community centres.
Naomi is a member of the Global Fund Technical Review Panel for Human Rights and Gender, a member of the Strategic Advisory Group to the UN on HIV and Drug Use, and a member of the World Health Organization Guidelines Group on ‘Ensuring Balance in National Policies on Controlled Substances.’
Naomi sits on the board of trustees for Cranstoun and for Food Behind Bars.
Naomi writes on harm reduction, public health and human rights and has been published in the Lancet, Health and Human Rights, Project Syndicate, Devex, and others. Naomi has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland and a Masters in International and Community Development from Deakin University.
Colleen is the Deputy Director and Public Health Lead at Harm Reduction International. She has 24 years of work experience in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, gender, human rights, challenging operating environments, harm reduction, and community systems strengthening, working to deliver access to essential health services. She has worked in programs globally and has lived and worked in Australia, Kenya, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand, the Kingdom of Tonga and the USA.
Colleen has worked in a variety of settings, including the Stop TB Partnership (UNOPS), World Health Organization (WHO), Treatment Action Group, Health Action International (HAI), and the Tongan and Australian Governments (Department of Immigration and AusAID).
Colleen developed the global strategy on tuberculosis and human rights and worked with tuberculosis and HIV civil society to increase their capacity to engage with the Global Fund, UN agencies, donors and governments. She also worked to catalyse global leadership to accelerate momentum toward universal access for high-quality tuberculosis and TB/HIV services; and to accelerate funding and progress in R&D for better tools to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB. While at WHO, Colleen was responsible for developing and implementing advocacy campaigns and communications strategies to accelerateTB/HIV service delivery in developing countries.
Colleen is a member of the Technical Review Panel for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; and an Advisory Committee Member of the Racial Diversity in Global Health Project. Colleen has a BA in International Relations from Saint Mary’s University and a MA in International Studies from the University of Melbourne.
Anne Taiwo is the Finance Manager at Harm Reduction International (HRI).
Anne is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (FCCA), bringing over twenty years of experience working in various public and charitable organisations including the Transport Police, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, Royal British Legion, and the Equality Commission.
In her role at HRI, Anne is responsible for working with the Executive Director to present precise and concise statements of the organisation’s financial affairs to the Board of Trustees. She also oversees the annual audit systems and ensures the organisation’s resources are used efficiently, effectively and economically.
Prior to joining HRI, Anne was the Head of Finance at Clinks – an organisation which supports, promotes and represents the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice system. While at Clinks, Anne set up the Finance Policy and Accounting Software, and ensured that the organisation remained compliant with the Charity Commission’s rules and regulations.
Conference team
The conference team organises the Harm Reduction International Conference, as well as Constellations: An Online Festival on Drugs and Harm Reduction.
Lucy O’Hare is a Conference Director at Harm Reduction International (HRI).
Lucy joined the team in 2015, to run the Harm Reduction International Conference in Kuala Lumpur – an event that signalled the beginning of an exciting journey at HRI. As part of the core team that put together HR17 in Montréal and HR19 in Porto, Lucy has developed a passion for the pace and diversity of the role, and the people she meets at these powerful, energising events.
Lucy is also responsible for conceptualising Constellations: An Online Festival on Drugs and Harm Reduction. HRI’s first major online event, the festival has broadened the scope of the HRI’s events by engaging new audiences and highlighting emerging areas of interest in the field of harm reduction.
Lucy works one day a week at HIT, a UK-based harm reduction information agency, where she runs national training programmes and is part of the team that established the annual HIT Hot Topics Conference, the UK’s leading harm reduction conference, in 2011.
Lucy holds a BA in French from the University of Leeds. She has been an enthusiastic harm reduction supporter since childhood.
Maddie is Harm Reduction International’s Conference Manager and is based in Liverpool. She is responsible for the organisation of Harm Reduction International’s flagship biennial conference, and working to ensure that it continues its strong history of being relevant and impactful in our field around the world.
Maddie has almost two decades of professional experience across harm reduction and event management. Prior to joining Harm Reduction International in 2016, she was full-time Deputy Director of HIT, a UK-based harm reduction information and training organisation. She remains a part-time Director of HIT.
Maddie lived in Thailand from 2002 to 2008, where she worked at various NGOs focused on harm reduction and HIV. Her experience during this time fomented her belief in the importance of the meaningful involvement of people who use drugs at all levels in harm reduction responses and drug policy discussions.
Maddie holds a BA in Modern Foreign Languages (French & Spanish) from the University of Bristol.
Ruod Ariete is a Project Assistant for the Conference Team at Harm Reduction International.
Ruod is a communications and learning specialist with over five years of experience in facilitation, digital marketing, and advocacy promotion. Prior to joining Harm Reduction International, Ruod worked as the Public Engagement and Capacity Building Coordinator at NoBox Philippines, a leading harm reduction-focused drug policy organisation based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Their work focused mainly on the conceptualization and implementation of various workshops, events, and other initiatives in partnership with other civil society organisations, international organisations, and local government units. Ruod headed the organising committee for the Philippine Harm Reduction Summit 2021, which gathered harm reduction advocates from all over the Philippines and abroad to collaborate on ideas and action toward more responsive and appropriate drug laws in the country.
Ruod likes to shine their queer light on challenging the binary views on drugs and gender. They always find ways to inject nuance and a little fun into every engagement.
They hold a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and are currently a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at the same institution.
Ailish Brennan is a Consultant for the Conference Team at Harm Reduction International.
Ailish is a harm reductionist and drug policy advocate who has been working in the field for 5 years, specialising in youth advocacy, feminist issues in drug policy, and the intersection between drug use and trans* and queer identities. Ailish had previously worked for Youth RISE as their Executive Director and is now a member of the Women and Harm Reduction International Network as well as engaging in harm reduction work with SONAR safer nightlife project in Berlin. Her community, both the trans* and drug using communities, remain the most important thing to her and she aims to improve the health and material outcomes of these communities through her work, in whatever way is necessary. She is a published author, having contributed a chapter to the book Shifting the Needle: The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women where she discusses the impact of prohibition on queer women and gender non-conforming people. Ailish holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics, International Relations, and Economics from University College Dublin.
Public Health and Social Policy Team
The Public Health and Social Policy team conducts original research and analysis to track developments in harm reduction and ensure people who use drugs have the health and social services they need.
Colleen is the Deputy Director and Public Health Lead at Harm Reduction International. She has 24 years of work experience in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, gender, human rights, challenging operating environments, harm reduction, and community systems strengthening, working to deliver access to essential health services. She has worked in programs globally and has lived and worked in Australia, Kenya, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Thailand, the Kingdom of Tonga and the USA.
Colleen has worked in a variety of settings, including the Stop TB Partnership (UNOPS), World Health Organization (WHO), Treatment Action Group, Health Action International (HAI), and the Tongan and Australian Governments (Department of Immigration and AusAID).
Colleen developed the global strategy on tuberculosis and human rights and worked with tuberculosis and HIV civil society to increase their capacity to engage with the Global Fund, UN agencies, donors and governments. She also worked to catalyse global leadership to accelerate momentum toward universal access for high-quality tuberculosis and TB/HIV services; and to accelerate funding and progress in R&D for better tools to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB. While at WHO, Colleen was responsible for developing and implementing advocacy campaigns and communications strategies to accelerateTB/HIV service delivery in developing countries.
Colleen is a member of the Technical Review Panel for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; and an Advisory Committee Member of the Racial Diversity in Global Health Project. Colleen has a BA in International Relations from Saint Mary’s University and a MA in International Studies from the University of Melbourne.
Temitope Salami is the Project Coordinator and Researcher in the Public Health and Social Policy team, working on HRI’s global mapping of harm reduction services and policy for the 2022 Global State of Harm Reduction report. Prior to joining HRI, he served as a Research and Support Officer at Migrant Action, an organisation based in Leeds, United Kingdom (UK), providing guidance, advocacy and support to vulnerable migrants who have fallen through the cracks in the UK immigration system. Ensuring equity of rights and justice for migrants and a reduction in the harms associated with migration.
Before moving to the UK, Temitope worked as a legislative aide in the Nigerian Parliament in Abuja, providing sound legislative and technical analysis to legislative committees and members of parliament, supporting legislative oversight activities, and delivering development projects to constituents in Northeast Nigeria.
Temitope writes on harm reduction, drug policy, and human rights and has been published by the Global Drug Policy Observatory.
Temitope has a Master of Arts degree in Applied Criminal Justice & Criminology from Swansea University, Wales (UK), and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Babcock University, Nigeria, and has studied Legislative Studies at the University of Benin.
Human Rights and Justice Team
The Human Rights and Justice team monitors rights abuses committed globally in the name of drug control, and advocates to promote the human rights of people who use drugs and their communities.
Ajeng Larasati is the Human Rights Lead at Harm Reduction International. Ajeng is a human rights and public health specialist with twelve years of experience in programme management, organisational development and strategic advocacy.
From 2012 to 2020, Ajeng worked for Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat (LBHM), a leading legal aid organisation based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her work focused on carrying out legal empowerment, capacity building, advocacy and research on the issue of HIV and human rights, drug policy, LGBT rights, and mental health. While at LBHM, Ajeng spearheaded the development of the Crisis Response Mechanism for LGBT communities and the development of the Indonesia HIV Legal Review, which highlights the human rights aspect of family-based intervention in Indonesia’s HIV programme.
Prior to joining Harm Reduction International, Ajeng also worked as a consultant for the Community, Rights and Gender team of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, where she provided technical assistance for key populations in the development of a multi-year human rights plan and supported community participation in the development of funding applications to the Global Fund.
Ajeng coordinates the Lawyering on the Margins Network and sits on the Steering Committee of the HIV Justice Network. She is on the Board of Directors for Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Masyarakat (LBHM) and the Advisory Board for OPSI, an Indonesian network of sex workers.
Ajeng holds an LLM degree in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from the University of Essex and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Indonesia.
Giada is a Senior Analyst in the Human Rights and Justice team at Harm Reduction International. She monitors trends on rights violations committed in the name of drug control, authors reports and analyses, and coordinates advocacy with the UN and other institutional actors.
Giada holds a law degree from the University of Torino (Italy), and an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from SOAS (University of London), and is a member of the Advocacy Coordination Working Group of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty.
Giada joined Harm Reduction International in April 2018. Prior to working at Harm Reduction International, she undertook research and policy analysis for the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights team at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International; worked in Guatemala with a local NGO promoting indigenous peoples’ rights; and, worked at the SOAS Human Rights Clinic on access to justice. In mid-2017, Giada published a book on transitional justice titled Understanding Transitional Justice: A Struggle for Peace, Reconciliation, and Rebuilding.
Cinzia Brentari is a Senior Advisor/Programme Manager at Harm Reduction
International, providing technical guidance and support to the Human Rights and
Justice team, and Public Health and Social Policy team.
Cinzia holds a degree in law and criminology. She has developed specific
expertise on European policies, advocacy and networking on harm reduction in
the criminal justice system. Within this sector she has coordinated research,
organised events, trainings and capacity building initiatives, thus bridging
expertise between civil society and the institutional sector.
Cinzia is a member of the Correlation European Harm Reduction Network Steering
Committee and has taken part in scientific committees of international conferences,
including the Harm Reduction International Conference, since 2005.
She has also contributed to European research and has published for the
European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, among others.
Between 2001 and 2005 Cinzia worked at the European Commission in Brussels
in managing development cooperation projects and supporting EU policy
development on drug demand reduction. She is a consultant for the European
Commission and its Agencies on project assessment, management and evaluation.
Cinzia has worked with Harm Reduction International as an advisor and
project manager since 2007.
Marcela Jofré is an Analyst with the Human Rights and Justice Team at Harm Reduction International (HRI), working across projects.
Marcela is a criminal lawyer with over four years of experience in criminal and strategic litigation in Chile.
Prior to joining HRI, she sat on the Board of Directors of LEASUR NGO, a Chilean organisation that campaigns for rights of people in prison and fights to end the carceral system as a way to solve social problems. From 2014-2018, Marcela worked as a legal adviser and human rights representative at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Chile.
For three years, Marcela volunteered with LEASUR NGO, reporting on prison conditions, campaigning for the right to vote for people in prison and making a legal proposal to the constitutional convention for the constitutional recognition of rights of people in prison. She is a member of the Red de Cabildos Penitenciarios, a collective working to elevate the voices of people in prison within conversations on Chilean constitutional reform. She has also contributed to challenging immigration detention as a caseworker and policy researcher volunteer at Bail for Immigration Detainees in the UK.
Marcela is deeply involved in racial capitalism struggles, abolitionism theories and the anti-carceral movement.
Marcela holds an MSc in Human Rights and Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Gen Sander is a Human Rights Consultant at Harm Reduction International (HRI).
Gen monitors trends on violations of fundamental rights committed in the name of drug control, with a focus on prisons and the death penalty for drug offences.
Gen has been working with the Harm Reduction International team since 2014. Prior to this Gen was senior researcher at the Essex Human Rights Centre, where she worked with Prof. Paul Hunt, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, on issues relating to health and human rights, and taught a module on international human rights law.
Gen has worked with human rights NGOs in Canada, Europe and the Middle East, and has also been a consultant for the World Health Organization and the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG) on right to health issues.
Gen holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Dalhousie University (Canada) and an LLM in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from the Irish Centre for Human Rights.
Catherine Cook is the Sustainable Financing Lead at Harm Reduction International (HRI).
Catherine is an expert on the funding of harm reduction. She has developed a portfolio of ground breaking research and policy analysis on financing for harm reduction, including the tracking of donor and government investment in harm reduction. She has coordinated international research, developed tools for harm reduction advocates and provided regular analysis to United Nations and donor agencies.
Catherine was responsible for conceptualising and developing HRI’s flagship project, the Global State of Harm Reduction in 2007.
Catherine brings 17 years of professional experience in harm reduction, HIV and policy research and has published extensively on a wide range of topics related to harm reduction and public health in both civil society reports and academic literature. She was a Deputy Editor for the Harm Reduction Journal from 2015-2020 and served on the Scientific Committee for the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP).
Catherine joined Harm Reduction International in 2007 as Research Analyst, before being appointed Head of Research, then Sustainable Financing Lead. Prior to that, she worked at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Catherine holds a BSc in Psychology from Sussex University, an M.Sc in Cross-Cultural Psychology from Brunel University, London. She has also completed courses in Human Rights Law in Practice at the London School of Economics and Health Economics at Oxford University.
Gaj Gurung is the Research and Policy Analyst for the Sustainable Financing Team at Harm Reduction International (HRI).
Gaj has a wealth of experience working with young people, adolescents and key population programming in the context of the HIV response as well as in gender equality at national, regional (Asia and the Pacific) and the global level. He brings expertise and experience on the Global Fund both as a recipient of funding and a member of the Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Global Fund Board.
Prior to joining HRI, Gaj was the Regional Coordinator of Youth LEAD, the largest network of Young Key Populations (YKPs) in Asia and the Pacific, representing youth and key populations in many high-level delegations and international platforms.
Gaj has a Master’s degree in development studies and a PhD in Public Health from Chulalongkorn University, focusing on the effectiveness of Nepal’s National Health Insurance program in reducing out-of-pocket health expenses.
Suchitra Rajagopalan is the Communications Strategist at Harm Reduction International (HRI).
At HRI, Suchitra works to develop and implement the strategic communications plan for the organisation, manages the creation and promotion of HRI’s major research publications, leads traditional and social media work, and works with HRI’s conference team to plan and promote HRI’s online and offline events.
Suchitra is deeply involved in the development of HRI’s work to promote racial justice and expose the colonial roots of the current drug control system. She has been key in shaping communications on the impact of punitive drug policies and in connecting HRI’s call for the redirection of funding to broader social justice movements.
Prior to joining HRI, Suchitra served as the Research Coordinator at the Drug Policy Alliance, where she was responsible for producing publications and conducting secondary research to inform the organisation’s publications, media, web, and policy work. She also interned with the Drug Policy Alliance’s international policy department and worked in the HIV/AIDS Unit at Lawyers Collective in Mumbai, India.
Suchitra received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Law from Sciences Po Paris.
Suchitra writes on harm reduction, drug policy and human rights and has been published by CNN, HuffPost, and the Inquirer.
Erika Dupuis is a Communications Consultant with Harm Reduction International (HRI), focusing on social and multimedia.
Erika is a Social Worker and organiser based on the unceded and traditional lands of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island, currently known as the greater Toronto area. Erika primarily works within global health advocacy, organising within the intersections of drug policy, HIV response, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Erika is the the Vice-Chair of The PACT, a global coalition of over 150+ youth-led organizations in HIV response and currently sits as the Vice-Chair of the NGO Constituency with the Partnership for Newborn, Maternal, and Child Health and is on the Board of Directors for Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Erika also works as a Youth and Adolescent Engagement Consultant with UN Women.
Erika received her Bachelor and Master’s of Social Work from Toronto Metropolitan University, where they focused on researching the perceived illegalities of unsanctioned overdose prevention sites in the greater Toronto area.
Lucy Burns is a senior communications professional with a track record of devising and executing effective strategies for leading global institutions, NGOs, corporates and government departments.
Lucy started her career providing advice and advocacy for UK local authorities and and third sector organisations on complex social issues including housing, homelessness, mental health services and higher education. Lucy then spent 15 years – including 7 years at Board level – at two UK communications agencies.
Lucy has extensive experience of providing advice to partners operating in the glare of media, regulatory and public scrutiny, and in politically sensitive environments.
Kojo Koram is an academic, teaching at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011 and received his PhD in September 2017. In 2018, the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities awarded his PhD the prestigious Julien Mezey Award.
Kojo has written for The New York Times, The New Statesman, The Guardian, Dissent, The Nation, and The Washington Post.
He is the author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray 2022), and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto Press 2019).
Olga Belyaeva is a drug policy reform activist from Ukraine with two decades of experience in advocacy, services and community mobilising.
In 2001, Olga pioneered the community needle exchange centre in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Over many years, Olga has studied the needs of the community of people who use drugs and taken action to share evidence-based information and organise low threshold service points.
In 2010, Olga co-founded the opioid substitution therapy patients’ association ASTAU in Ukraine, the first of its kind in the East Europe Central Asia region. Between 2013 and 2019 Olga worked at the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) as manager of the community-led advocacy programme “From Street to Government.”
In February 2020, Olga was elected by members and took on the role of Program Coordinator of the Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs (ENPUD).
Alex Stevens is Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Kent and a Senior Editor of the International Journal of Drug Policy.
Alex’s first job in the field was in 1991 as a caseworker for the British charity Prisoners Abroad. He went on to run the European Network of Drug and HIV/AIDS Services in Prison for Cranstoun Drug Services before joining the University of Kent in 1998. He was a member of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs from 2014 to 2019 and President of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy from 2015 to 2019. He is currently a member of the DrugScience independent committee on drug policy.
Alex has published extensively on drug policy, treatment and harm reduction, including a book on Drugs, Crime and Public Health: the Political Economy of Drug Policy (Routledge, 2011). He has particular interests in harm reduction services in prisons, coerced drug treatment, the links between drug laws, social policy and public health, and in the decriminalisation of possession of drugs for personal use.
Oluseyi Kehinde is the Co-Director and Advocacy Manager at YouthRISE Nigeria. For close to a decade, he has executed development programs with a focus on human rights, drug policy, harm reduction, youth development, and Sexual Reproductive Health. He has managed projects funded by UNODC, Open Society Foundations, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Frontline AIDS, and others.
Oluseyi is a member of the National Technical Working Group on Drug Demand and Harm Reduction in Nigeria. He is an International Working Group member of Youth RISE and a Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI).
Oluseyi continues to devote his expertise to strategic advocacy for global drug policy reform and sustainable development of young people in vulnerable and marginalised contexts.
Raminta Stuikyte is a social justice activist with a life-long experience in transforming policies in the field of drug policy, HIV, access to essential medicines and higher education.
In 2000s, as the founding executive director of Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, she helped to develop approaches to reducing harms related to drug use and policies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In 2013-2015, she was elected to chair the European Union’s Civil Society Forum on (Narcotic) Drugs. In 2021, the Republic of Lithuania nominated Raminta to the International Narcotic Control Board, which is charged with monitoring of the implementation of the three UN drug conventions.
She advises Prof Michel Kazatchkine in his role as the Special Advisor to the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Until 2019 she served in the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. Raminta is the Vice Chair of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the largest global donor in the field of harm reduction). She has been an advisor and a consultant to Open Society Foundations, UNDP, WHO, Harm Reduction International, Frontline AIDS, Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs and others.
John Porter joined HRI as a Trustee and Treasurer in 2021, bringing thirty years’ experience in corporate finance and capital markets. John is currently Managing Director at Dalma Capital in Dubai; he previously worked for Morgan Stanley and Renaissance Capital in London.
John believes in evidence-based healthcare and is committed to addressing stigma and discrimination in services.
John supports the Board of Trustees in its management of financial risk, and provides technical assistance to the Executive Director and Finance Manager through audit processes.
founder
Professor Pat O’Hare was the Executive Director of Harm Reduction International from its founding in 1996 until he stepped down in 2004.
Pat started working in the drug field in the mid-1980s when he became Drug Education Coordinator for Sefton on Merseyside and then Director of the Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre in Liverpool. In 1989, he founded the International Journal of Drug Policy and was the Editor from 1990 to 2000. In response to the interest created by the innovative ‘Mersey Harm Reduction Model’, Pat initiated the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm in 1990.
Pat has been instrumental in helping governments around the world to change the way they approach the problems caused by drug use, especially those caused by the sharing of injecting equipment. He is co-editor of three books on the reduction of drug related harm, has published extensively on HIV prevention, education and drug policy, and has spoken at many international conferences during the past twenty years.
In 1990, Pat was given the Norman E. Zinberg Award for Achievement in the Field of Medicine and Treatment by the Drug Policy Foundation in Washington and, in 2000, he was given Harm Reduction International’s most prestigious prize – the International Rolleston Award. In February 2009, he was made Visiting Professor in Drug Use and Addiction at Liverpool John Moores University.
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