Cristiana

Vale Pires

Cristiana Vale Pires is a Postdoctoral Researcher and lecturer collaborating at the Research Centre for Human Development of the Faculty of Education Psychology of the Catholic University of Portugal. She is also a founding member and coordinator of community-based projects at the Kosmicare association. She has vast experience in collaborating and coordinating European and national research and community-based projects in the drugs field (mainly New Psychoactive Substances and Heavy Episodic Drinking), sex work, harm education and sexualized drug uses, gender-responsiveness in the drug field and care policies. Cristiana collaborates also as a consultant and external expert at EMCDDA.