He is the Head of the Czech National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and drug Addiction at the Office of the Government, which is the member of the Reitox network coordinated by EMCDDA. He is responsible for the national information system in addictions. He is the main author and editor of the Annual reports on the drug situation in the Czech Republic as well as Annual reports on gambling in the Czech Republic.His main interests are drug monitoring, evidence-based drug policy, problematic patterns of drug use and their prevalence, drug-related infectious diseases and other drug-related health consequences, harm-reduction interventions. He is MD, specialised in epidemiology, has PhD in Preventive Medicine. Since 2018, he has been nominated Associate Professor at the Department of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.
7 May 2021 PLENARY SESSION 4: SPECIAL SESSION: People who inject/use drugs (EMCDDA/ECDC): Moderator