Joe Kean
ALCOHOL & ILLICIT DRUG WORKER
Bridge Project, United Kingdom
image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), public health, educational training, harm reduction
Joe Kean is one of the Operational Team Managers at the Bridge Project in Bradford, a charity that supports families and individuals affected by substance misuse. He co created the Yorkshire and Humberside Steroids and IPED Consultation and Reference Group (the only one of its kind in the country), was a Public Health Advisory Committee Co-opted Member for PH52 update of NICE Guidance and has an MSc in Contemporary Issues in Drug Use. Joe currently holds an honorary position at CPH (visiting lecturer) and has a particular interest in researching the sub-populations within steroid and other image and performance enhancing drug using communities. He considers himself fortunate to have undertaken research projects and received subsequent co-authorship alongside (among others) Prof. Harrison Pope and Dr. Gen Kanayama from Harvard Medical School. Joe also run Nine Zero Five, a social enterprise who’s main contract is running the recruitment and engagement element of the National Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) Info Survey, which in 2015 was the largest face to face survey conducted of its kind ever on a global scale. Nine Zero Five also supports and delivers Steroid and IPED Training to services throughout the UK. Alongside his background in the social services sector he has also worked in the fitness industry for over 10 years, is a fully qualified personal trainer and L3 nutritionist, and a nationally competitive power lifter.