Disease Control Priority Project: Illicit Drug Use
Overview
The World Health Organisation (WHO), World Bank, and the Fogarty Center, US National Institutes of Health have been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify disease control priorities in the developing world. Wayne Hall is to lead a team of investigators that will identify disease control priorities for illicit drug use. This will involve analyses of epidemiological studies of the prevalence of illicit drug use, premature mortality caused by various types of illicit drug use, and the effectiveness of different interventions (e.g. law enforcement, prevention and treatment) that aim to reduce illicit drug use and the harm that such drug use causes . Economic analyses will identify the most cost-effective of available interventions that can be used by developing countries to reduce illicit drug use and drug-related harm.
OPPE Staff
Wayne Hall
Collaborators
Professor Alan Lopez
and Associate-Professor Chris Doran, School
of Population Health, The University of Queensland
Dr Louisa Degenhardt,
National
Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Dr Rick Harwood, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, USA
Professor Donald Shepard, Schneider
Institute for Health Policy, Heller School, Brandeis University
Status
Review in progress.
Outcomes
A report will be written for the Disease Control Priority Project which will be published as a background paper and serve as the basis for analyses that will be reported in the overall report of the project in late 2004.
Funding
OPPE
School
of Population Health, The University of Queensland
National
Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
National Institute
on Drug Abuse
Contact webmaster: oppe@uq.edu.au
Last updated: 1 September
2004