LxAddictions24: Empowering the workforce

In this episode, Dr Zoe Swithenbank talks to Fleur Braddick from Workforce in Addiction · Valorisation in Europe (WAVE) about her work as a co-producer for Lisbon Addictions. Fleur Braddick (Communications lead on WAVE), on behalf of other coordinating team (Silvia Matrai, Elsa Caballeria and Hugo López-Pelayo), talks about how WAVE is collaborating with diverse expert stakeholders to review state-of-the-art evidence and good practice in relation to quality standards for the European addictions workforce, and co-producing the WAVE Track and Video Contest in the Lisbon Addictions 2024 conference (23-25 Oct 2024).

They also talk about how WAVE compiled sessions for Lisbon Addictions whilst offering advice for people attending Lisbon Addictions.

“This is my fifth time in Lisbon Addictions, the fourth time co-producing. I've been before and it's always different.”

Zoe Swithenbank is a researcher at Liverpool John Moores University.

Fleur Braddick is a science and communications officer in the Clínic Foundation of Biomedical Research (FCRB-IDIBAPS). She is a Human Scientist and Medical Anthropologist by training, and public health researcher, project coordinator and science communicator by profession.

The EC co-funded project WAVE (Workforce in Addiction · Valorisation in Europe, Grant No. 101045870) is led by the ), and in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Catalonia (Gencat), Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Portuguese Institute for Addictive Behaviours and Addictions (ICAD).

https://wave-addictionsworkforce.eu/

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