Wadih

Maalouf

Wadih holds a PhD in Mental Health and Drug Addiction Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He joined UNODC in 2005, where his first role was a regional epidemiologist and drug demand reduction advisor, assessing the drug situation and service response infrastructure in the MENA region and accordingly orienting the national drug demand reduction strategies. He then shifted to build technical assistance on availing evidence-based prevention of drug use and treatment of substance use disorders. Since 2010, he assumed the post of global programme coordinator in the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section of UNODC HQ in Vienna. His global programme is the main operational arm used by UNODC in changing the culture of prevention and aligning it with the UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention. His role is to promote the standards and develop, pilot and assess the impact of family skills responses in preventing drug use, crime and violence as well as life skills education responses in schools and in sport settings. A contributor to the INSPIRE interagency initiative to end violence against children, Helping Adolescents Thrive to prevention and promotion of Mental Health in Adolescents and the UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention and has several publications in the field of drug demand reduction.