Ann M. Roche

Ann M Roche is Professor and Director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, at Flinders University, South Australia.  Previously she was the Director of the Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Centre at the University of Queensland for five years.  She has over twenty five years experience in the field of public health and has worked as a researcher, educator, and policy analyst in various public health areas and has held academic posts at the University of Sydney, the University of Newcastle and Queensland University.  For the past 15 years her interests and professional activities have focussed exclusively on alcohol and drug issues with a specific interest in professional education and workforce development and holds graduate level qualifications in education.  She has published extensively in alcohol and drug and related public health areas, including over 100 papers and reports including several book chapters.  She has recently co-edited a book on learning about drinking. In addition, she has worked as a temporary consultant to the World Health Organization, undertaken numerous consultancies for government and non-government bodies and has acted as an adviser on a wide range of committees in the alcohol and drug field.