Tatyana Sleiman is a Lebanese harm-reduction and mental health practitioner, strategist and advocate with lived experience of drugs use. She is Executive Director at Skoun Lebanese Addictions Center, a Beirut based harm reduction centre where she has been working for 15 years.

In her role at Skoun,  she led the first programme to embed opioid agonist therapy and community harm reduction in Lebanon’s public health system during the country’s intersecting political and economic crises.

A staunch advocate for the decriminalisation of drug use, Tatyana contributes to promoting  evidence and human-centred regional drug policies and legislation. Through her role on the International Drug Policy Consortium Advisory Council she helps steer global reform agendas toward health and rights-based models. Her intersectional lens, focused on youth, LGBTQIA+ people, refugees and other crisis-affected groups also guides her governance roles as  an Advisory Board Member at Helem, the Arab world’s leading queer-rights organisation and Volunteer Board Delegate with Médecins du Monde-France, advocating for equitable care in emergencies.

Over two decades, Tatyana has mobilized humanitarian and development resources, designed crisis-responsive services, and championed evidence-based, rights-focused drug policies locally, regionally and internationally.

In 2023, she was selected as a Ford Foundation Global Fellow, joining a decade-long network of leaders combating inequality worldwide across sector of intervention and practice.

Tatyana holds a masters degree in clinical and pathological psychology.