Global Consortium to Advance Data on the Epidemiology and Health Impacts of Illicit Drug Use

December 2017
Staff: 

Professor Louisa Degenhardt
Dr Sarah Larney
Dr Amy Peacock              
Miss Samantha Colledge
Professor Michael Farrell
Professor Richard Mattick

Other Collaborators: 

Dr Janni Leung, University of Queensland
A/Prof Jason Grebely, Kirby Institute
Prof Matt Hickman, University of Bristol
Prof Peter Vickerman, University of Bristol
Prof John Strang, King's College London
Prof Michael Lynskey, King's College London
Prof John Marsden, King's College London
Dr Lindsey Hines, King's College London
Mr Jack Stone, University of Bristol
Mr Adam Trickey, University of Bristol
Mr Evan Cunningham, Kirby institute
Prof Wayne Hall, University of Queensland
Mr Konstantin Dumchev, Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
Mr Paul Griffiths, EMCDDA
Prof Jurgen Rehm, CAMH

Project description: 

We have developed a multidisciplinary global consortium of researchers who can provide independent high-quality evidence regarding the scale of illicit drug use, harms, access to services at country, regional and global levels, and build capacity for better data in these areas.

The work by this group includes a range of reviews and synthesis of evidence, including:

Systematic review of country-level, regional and global estimates of prevalence of injecting drug use; sociodemographic and risk characteristics of people who inject drugs; and HIV, HCV and HBV prevalence amongst people who inject drugs

  • To access the journal article please visit The Lancet.
  • Interactive dashboards containing data from this study are available on the NDARC website.

Systematic review of country-level, regional and global estimates of coverage of needle-syringe programme, opioid substitution therapy, HIV testing, anti-retroviral therapy, and condom programmes for people who inject drugs.

  • To access the journal article please visit The Lancet.
  • Interactive dashboards containing data from this study are available on the NDARC website.

For full details please visit the NDARC website.