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Haydee Rosovsky
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Haydee Rosovsky is the co-founder and director of the Center for Educational and Community Responses (CRECE), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing programs that reduce substance abuse and promote mental health in schools and communities in Mexico. She is active as an academic advisor to FISAC (Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales AC), a non-for profit organization that promotes research, scientific workshops and the diffusion of information on alcohol issues. Until early 2005, Ms. Rosovsky worked as a researcher in the Division of Epidemiological and Social Research of the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry, and during her 27-year tenure there she was responsible for several multinational studies on alcohol-related problems, in cooperation with WHO, NIAAA, and PAHO. She was appointed by the Minister of Health as Head of the National Council on Addictions (CONADIC) during the 1995-2000 administration, where she devoted her time to the development of programs for substance abuse reduction. During those years she became more aware of the gap between research and decision making, as well as of the complexity of the Mexican society for policy development. Ms. Rosovsky has published extensively and her research centers around alcohol-related problems and their indirect indicators, as well as approaches to prevention and treatment of substance abuse. Currently, she is preparing to present and publish her dissertation (Ph.D. in Sociology) entitled “Alcoholics Anonymous as a social organization: the Mexican case,” and she also intends to devote her time to future CRECE projects. |
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