{"id":4920,"date":"2019-06-26T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:04:53","slug":"international-regional-advisor-for-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/international-regional-advisor-for-who\/","title":{"rendered":"International Regional Advisor for WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Alexander Baldacchino, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Addictions with the Population and Behaviour Science Division, St Andrews University Medical School has been invited to work with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to lead the development of a programme of work for the area of substance use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO).\u00a0 This temporary position\u00a0as an international regional advisor\u00a0will\u00a0guide and facilitate the development of a strategic approach for the 22 Regional Member States to scale up prevention and treatment for substance use disorders.\u00a0 Alex is expected to leave Fife for the EMRO office in Cairo on the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0July 2019\u00a0returning\u00a0during 2020.\u00a0 Professor Baldacchino also holds clinical responsibilities as NHS Fife Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions and NHS Fife Research and Development Director.\u00a0 He has also recently been elected as President Elect for the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM).<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4921 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/09\/PORTRAIT-BALDACCHINO-ALEX-colour-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Alexander Baldacchino, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Addictions with the Population and Behaviour Science Division, St Andrews University Medical School has been invited to work with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to lead the development of a programme of work for the area of substance use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO).\u00a0 This temporary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[35,448,462,629,796,798,901,1187,1198],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-addiction","tag-emro","tag-european-mediterranean-region","tag-isam","tag-nhs-fife","tag-nhs-fife-rd","tag-prof-alex-baldacchino","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 19:30:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}