Message from Symposium Organising Committee
On behalf of the hosting organisations, The Drug and Alcohol Office and Western Australian Network for Alcohol and other Drug Agencies (WANADA), welcome to the 17th Western Australian Drug and Alcohol 2010 Symposium website. This much anticipated event will take place from 31st August to 1st September 2010 at the Esplanade Hotel Fremantle, Western Australia.
The Symposium Organising Committee comprises of the Drug and Alcohol Office, WANADA, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, The University of Notre Dame Australia and Healthway. This Symposium will bring together international, national and local speakers to present evidence-based research and emerging practice in policy, prevention, harm reduction, law enforcement strategies and treatment including pharmacotherapies.
Building on the success of sixteen previous symposia held in Western Australia, the 17th Symposium will provide numerous opportunities for professional networking, collaboration, discussion, debate and reflection around the Symposium’s theme “Hope, Hype or Hard Evidence? Alcohol and Other Drugs Practice in the New Millennium”.
International, national and local speakers already confirmed include:
- Professor Judy Atkinson Director, Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University ... more details on Professor Judy Atkinson
- Professor Steve Allsop Director & Project Leader, National Drug Research Institute, WA ... more details on Professor Steve Allsop
- Viki Briggs
Manager, Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control
University of Melbourne ... more details on Viki Briggs - Professor Rob Donovan
Professor of Behavioural Research & Professor of Social Marketing
Curtin University of Technology, WA ... more details on Professor Rob Donovan - Dr Martin Iguchi
Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles ... more details on Dr Martin Iguchi - Professor Neil McKeganey
Professor and Director Centre for Drug Misuse Research
University of Glasgow, Scotland ... more details on Professor Neil McKeganey - Professor Tim Stockwell
Director, Centre for Addictions Research of BC and Co-Leader of the BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada ... more details on Professor Tim Stockwell - Dr Norman Swan Master of Ceremonies ... more details on Dr Norman Swan
- Dr Alex Wodak
Director, Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent's Hospital
Victoria ... more details on Dr Alex Wodak - Dallas McKeown-Young
Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit
Centre for Health & Society, Melbourne School of Population Health ... more details on Dallas McKeown-Young
Attending this Symposium will give you the opportunity to meet more than 300 delegates from a range of settings including government and non government drug treatment agencies; tertiary and research settings; justice, diversion and law enforcement, education, health, mental health, youth, Aboriginal, CaLD, child protection and welfare, new researchers and graduates and individuals and agencies representing drug consumers.
We look forward to seeing you at this interesting and motivating Symposium.
Sponsored By:
Silver Sponsor:
Drug & Alcohol Office, Government of Western Australia - WA Illicit Drug Diversion Program Funded by the Australian Government
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