CRDHB Research
The research programme of CRDHB includes:
Epidemiology of drug-related health harm
- Blood borne viruses associated with injecting drug use (HIV, HCV, HBV)
- Bacterial infections and other harms associated with injecting drug use
- Prevalence estimation of problem drug use, and the development and demonstration of indirect estimation techniques
- Public health surveillance of drug related harms nationally and internationally
- Monitoring global indicators of drug injecting and health harm
- Modelling HCV and HIV transmission and prevention impact
- Observational epidemiology of the aetiology of drug use harms
Social research on drug use and health behaviour
- Risk perception and risk management of problem drug use
- Risk environment and social/structural risk factors
- Qualitative and ethnographic research
Public health intervention research
- Evaluation of drug service innovation and complex intervention
- HIV prevention research in the context of international development
- Rapid assessment methods