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I am a social scientist, and my research and teaching expertise are in the area of illicit drug use including the prevention and reduction of drug-related harms. My research work has focussed on developing interventions that seek to reduce harms from drug injecting, examining the prevalence and incidence of blood borne viruses in communities and in prisons, and qualitative work on harms from injecting novel psychoactive substances, as well as theoretical evaluations of harm reduction services. I am currently the PI on an NIHR funded multi-partner Realist Evaluation of medication assisted treatment and injecting equipment providers in the UK and a co-investigator on an ESRC funded study to lead a policy analysis in a multi partner study that is using en ethnographic approach to studying how parents and families are governed by service providers.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Health Science, Doctorate - Attitudes of Nurses and Social Workers to alcohol and working with alcohol problems, Glasgow Caledonian University
Award Date: 19 Nov 2008
External positions
Academic , Scottish Drugs Death Task Force
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Understanding the Contextual Factors that Impact on the Effective Provision of Opiate Substitution Therapy (OST) and Needle and Syringe Programmes (NSP) int eh UK: a Multi-Method Study and Realist Evaluation of What Works for Whom and Under What Circumstances (Joint with Universities of Stirling and Bristol and Kings College London
National Institute for Health Research
1/12/20 → 30/11/22
Project: Research
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Assessing the Impacts of Novel Coronavirus Outbreaks on People who use Drugs, Drug -Related Deaths and the Effectiveness of Service Responses to them: a Systematic Review to Inform Practice and Drug Policy Responses to COVID 19 in Scotland. (Joint with University of Stirling)
Gray, N., MacGillivray, S., Mohan, A. & Munro, A.
1/09/20 → 28/02/21
Project: Research
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The Leadership of Co-Production in Health and Social Care Integration in Scotland: A Qualitative Study
Connolly, J., Munro, A., MacGillivray, S., Mulherin, T., Toma, M., Gray, N. & Anderson, J., 3 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Social Policy. p. 1-20 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The uptake of foil from needle and syringe provision services and its role in smoking or snorting heroin among people who inject drugs in Scotland
Dunleavy, K., Hutchinson, S. J., Palmateer, N. E., Goldberg, D. J., Taylor, A., Munro, A., Shepherd, S. J., Gunson, R. N., Given, S., Campbell, J. & McAuley, A., Dec 2021, In: International Journal of Drug Policy. 98, 7 p., 103369.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding the impacts of novel coronavirus outbreaks on people who use drugs: a systematic review to inform practice and drug policy responses to COVID-19
Munro, A., Booth, H., Gray, N. M. ., Love, J., Mohan, A., Tang, J. & MacGillivray, S., 11 Aug 2021, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18, 16, 26 p., 8470.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Emergence of Novel Psychoactive Substance injecting associated with rapid rise in the population prevalence of hepatitis C virus
McAuley, A., Yeung, A., Taylor, A., Hutchinson, S. J., Goldberg, D. J. & Munro, A., Apr 2019, In: International Journal of Drug Policy. 66, p. 30-37 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Re-emergence of HIV related to injecting drug use despite a comprehensive harm reduction environment: a cross sectional analysis
McAuley, A., Palmateer, N. E., Goldberg, D. J., Trayner, K. M. A., Shepherd, S. J., Gunson, R. N., Metcalfe, R., Milosevic, C., Taylor, A., Munro, A. & Hutchinson, S. J., May 2019, In: The Lancet HIV. 6, 5, p. e315-e324 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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