Professor
Louisa Degenhardt
AO FAA FAHMS FASSA
Louisa Degenhardt is a psychologist and global authority on illicit drug use. She has led seminal research on the global burden of illicit drug use and mapped global coverage of interventions to reduce this burden. Her work is used by governments, United Nations agencies and other key international organisations to inform treatment planning and to advocate for the scale-up of interventions that are effective in reducing harms among people who use drugs.
Fields of research
42 HEALTH SCIENCES- 4206 PUBLIC HEALTH
For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .
Expertise type
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Psychiatry
- Medical Sciences
- Illicit drug use
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