Anders Schmidt Vinther
BOARD MEMBER
Aarhus University, Denmark
performance and image enhancing drugs, doping, fitness, public health
Anders Schmidt Vinther (MSc in Sport Science) is a PhD student at Department of Public Health at Aarhus University. His project Drug Use and Prevention in Gyms seeks to understand how anabolic steroid use in gyms can be prevented, to what degree it’s possible, and to identify the key barriers in this regard. He has previously been in charge of a Government funded doping prevention programme in one of Denmark’s largest municipalities (the first of its kind in Denmark), and he has several years of practical experience with tobacco, alcohol and drug policy and prevention. With many years of engagement in bodybuilding and power lifting environments, he has an academic as well as a personal interest in the topic of human enhancement.