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Ernst Buning psychologist and director of Quest for Quality, Training and Consultancy (Q4Q), has been active in the field of substance use since 1977. He started his career at the Drug Department of the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service (GGD), where he worked as an outreach worker, set up the Amsterdam Methadone by Bus project, evaluated world’s first needle exchange, developed Aids prevention strategies for drug users and initiated and lead the GGD Bureau International Relations on drugs and Aids. In 2000, he left the Municipal Health Service and started his own training and consultancy agency (see www.q4q.nl).
In his present work, Ernst Buning is involved in a number of alcohol projects. He is president of the International Conferences on Alcohol and Harm Reduction (see: www.alcoholconference.org), has initiated -in cooperation with Dinamo, IHRA and ICAP- the Alcohol Policy Seminar (APS, see www.alcoholseminar.org) and is involved in the IHRA led project Alcohol and the City (see www.alcoholandthecity.org). Ernst Buning is one of the founders of the International Harm Reduction Association (see www.ihra.net). |