Public Health

The organised efforts of governments, health systems, and communities to prevent substance-related harms, promote wellbeing, and improve population health outcomes. A public health approach focuses on prevention, early intervention, treatment, recovery support, and harm reduction, while also addressing the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence substance use. It relies on surveillance data, evidence-based interventions, policies, and cross-sector collaboration to reduce the overall burden of substance use disorders and promote healthier communities. 

Nordic Reform Conference 2023

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Oslo
, 
Norway

Learn. Connect. Participate.

Learn about evidence-based practices in the field of drug policy, harm reduction, and human rights.

NRC brings together front-line health workers, researchers, policymakers, politicians, and individuals with lived experiences of drug use. This dynamic forum serves as a spark for inspiring talks, innovative ideas, and transformative discussions.

Integrating viral hepatitis and harm reduction services

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online

Harm Reduction International (HRI) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Secretariat, are pleased to invite you to participate in a webinar on Integrating Viral Hepatitis and Harm Reduction Services, to be held on 5 September 2023 at 9:30AM British Summer Time.

Supporting Change: Amplifying Voices - Scottish Drugs Forum's conference

 - 
Glasgow
, 
United Kingdom

SDF unites stakeholder perspectives which are too often marginalised in drugs debates. This event will identify shared themes, interests and issues of concern and explore means by which these stakeholders can become empowered to achieve Scotland’s national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and improve lives.

Contemporary Drug Problems Conference

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Paris
, 
France

Building on CDP’s previous conferences, which have opened up questions of how drugs are problematised; how the complexity of drug use can be attended to; how drug use might be understood as an event, assemblage or phenomenon; how drugs and their effects are constituted in various forms of practice and interactions/intra-actions, and how we might rethink change.