Marie Claire Van Hout
PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
alcohol and other drugs, human enhancement drugs, tanning drugs, health promotion, public health
Dr. Marie Claire Van Hout has a Ph.D., M.Sc. Addiction (International Programme in Addiction Studies), and a M.Sc. Health Promotion. She is a Professor of Public Health Policy and Practice at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. Van Hout has over 15 years research experience in the field of substance misuse, public health, pharmaco and addict-vigilance. She coordinates the ENCePP registered Substance Misuse Research at WIT with studies registered on the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). She is an Associate Member of staff at the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council (MRC), and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moore’s University, UK. She has consulted as Training Specialist for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), as Expert Evaluator for the European Research Executive Agency (REA-EC) on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions “RISE” (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange), as Vice Chair for the ITN (Innovative Training Networks) ‘Life ‘ panel H2020-MSCA-ITN 2016, and as Independent Project Evaluator for United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). She is currently Editor in Chief of the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.