Jacek Moskalewicz is the Head of the Department
of Studies on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence at the Institute
of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland. He is also
in charge of the Institute's collaboration with the World
Health Organization and of the secretariat of the Institute's
Scientific Council.
For more than 20 years he has participated
in cross-cultural studies including the United Nations University
project on Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies (1996-98),
the Nordic Council project on Perception of Social Problems
around the Baltic Sea (1992-1998), the European Commission
program on Evaluating Drug Policies in Europe (1993-1996),
and the European Commission funded research on Female drug
users in prisons (2003-2004). Currently, he is a Principal
Investigator of the project Determinants of supply of
and demand for psychoactive substances in Poland against
a background of European integration.
Jacek Moskalewicz is also a member of the
World Health Organization experts' advisory panel on drug
dependence and alcohol problems. He is regularly invited
to serve as a consultant or technical adviser to international
organizations including the World Health Organization, the
United Nations (International) Drug Control Program, the
United Nations Children Fund, the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime and the Pompidou Group at the Council
of Europe.
Dr. Moskalewicz is committed to the international
research community, and serves as a member of the Editorial
Board of European Addiction Research, of the Editorial
Advisory Board of Addiction, and of International
Advisory Board of Journal of Substance Use.
Dr. Moskalewicz's background is in Sociology.
His research interests cover a wide range of issues from
alcohol and drug epidemiology to community action projects.
He studies alcohol and drug problems applying a variety
of methods including conventional epidemiological approaches,
population surveys as well as qualitative methods. In his
work on social policy, Moskalewicz is close to a contextual
constructionism school, which sees social problems as a
process of claims-making and to lesser extent as objective
condition. He is the author or co-author of 115 publications.
Dr. Moskalewicz is a recipient of Jellinek
Memorial Award (2001) and is currently the Deputy-President
of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological
Research on Alcohol (2003-2004).
While in Ann Arbor, Dr. Moskalewicz is drafting
a project proposal on assessment of alcohol and drug treatment
and is elaborating his studies in the social history of
alcohol problems.
