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Klaudia

Klaudia is currently a PhD Candidate and Research Officer at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR), School of Psychology & Public Health at La Trobe University. Her PhD focuses on the qualitative exploration of the meaning and experience of heavy drinking among young people in Australia.

She obtained a MSc degree in Health Education and Promotion and a BSc degree in European Public Health at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, where she conducted research into substance use among adolescents in Europe. Her research focused on the meaning and perception of party drugs and new psychoactive substances among young people in the hidden setting of "cave raves" in the Netherlands. During her MSc course, she completed an internship at GGD (Medical Health Service, Knowledge and Innovation Department), where she studied the influence of policy, density of alcohol outlets and the price on the trends in drinking patterns among adolescents.

Afterwards, she completed a traineeship at EMCDDA/EUDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction/European Drugs Agency), followed by consultancy work in several drug-related research projects. Further, she worked for Evidence Prime - an IT company, developing innovative tools supporting the creation of health guidelines and recommendations (according to GRADE methodology), and tools for conducting living literature reviews with the use of AI.