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Friday, June 16, 2006
Workshop: Submitting Competitive Grant Applications-Tips for International Researchers
- The Research Assistant: An Online Grant-Writing Tutorial
Jeffrey Hoffman, President, DANYA International
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Forum Symposium
- College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)
Gabriele Fischer, Chair, International Committee College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) - NIDA International Program Update
Steven W. Gust, Director, International Program, NIDA
Keynote Presentation
- International Drug Control Issues and Implications
Willem Scholten, Technical Officer, Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines, World Health Organization
Focus on Latin America: Initiatives and Activities
- NIDA’s Latin American Initiative
Steven W. Gust, Director, International Program, NIDA - Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD/0AS)
Pernell Clarke, Specialist, Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, CICAD - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Rubí Blancas, Project Coordinator, Regional Central American Substance Abuse Treatment Network, UNODC - Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)
Janis Dawson Schwartzmann, Consultant, PAHO - Promising Practices in Drug Abuse Treatment & Prevention in Latin America (Funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), United States Department of State)
Jeffrey Hoffman, President, DANYA International - National Hispanic Science Network (NHSN)
Antonio Cepeda-Benito, Chair, International Collaboration, National Hispanic Scientific Network
Breakout Session: Web-based Tools for Education, Research and Publishing
- PARINT.org – An Online Resource For Addiction Publishing
Ian Stolerman, President, International Society of Addiction Journal Editors - Technological Solutions for Supporting International Research Partnerships
Cely R. Argueta, Deputy Director, Latino Health, DANYA International
Salvatore Libretto, Associate Director of Research, DANYA International - Web-based Manual on Opioid Substitution Pharmacotherapies
David A. Fiellin, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University - Update on Electronic Grant Submission and Process for Foreign Investigators
Mark Green, Deputy Director, Office of Extramural Affairs, NIDA - Web-based Education for International Research
John M. "Skip" Harris, President, Medical Directions, Inc.
Breakout Session: Building Latin American Research Networks
This session was conducted in Spanish.
- Introduction
M. Patricia Needle, Consultant, NIDA - Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
Pernell Clarke, Specialist, Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, CICAD
Marya Hynes-Dowell, Specialist, Drug Abuse Research, CICAD - Community Epidemiology Workgroup (CEWG)
Jorge A. Villatoro Velázquez, Researcher, National Institute of Psychiatry, Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico - Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)
Janis Dawson Schwartzmann, Consultant, PAHO - U.S.–Mexico Border Epidemiology Group
Juan José Roque, Chief, Program for Prevention and Control of Addiction, State Health Secretariat, Nuevo León - UNODC Project CAM H90: Creation of a Treatment, Rehabilitation and Social Reinsertion Network in Central America
Rubí Blancas, Project Coordinator, Regional Central American Substance Abuse Treatment Network, UNODC
Breakout Session: International Treatment Networking
- Networking to Increase Access to Quality Services
Juana Tomás-Rosselló, Drug Abuse Treatment Advisor and Treatnet Coordinator, Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit, Global Challenges Section, UNODC - Capacity Building
Rick Rawson, Associate Director, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs - Synthesizing Promising Practices on Community-based Treatment and Rehabilitation
Paula Liljeberg, Director, Maria Ungdom, Sweden - Synthesizing Promising Practices on Treatment in Prisons
Kathyrn Leafe, Director of Quality and Performance, Cranstoun Drug Services, United Kingdom - Synthesizing Promising Practices on Sustainable Livelihoods for Rehabilitation and Reintegration
Shanti Ranganathan, Honorary Secretary, TT Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, India - Synthesizing Promising Practices on the Role of Drug Dependence Treatment in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
Min Zhao, Director, Shanghai Drug Abuse Treatment Centre, China