Autor/-in: Catherine Comiskey

Professor Catherine Comiskey,. School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Professor Comiskey has over 20 years research and lecturing experience in statistics and mathematics applied to healthcare and her personal research interests are in substance use, child wellbeing and innovation. In 2017 she was elected by EU members as Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, a committee with a legal remit from the EU. She has also served as an EU expert on the Scientific Committee of the EU′s European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Portugal. In 2017, Catherine was invited by Minister Byrne to be the sole academic expert on the National Drug Strategy Implementation Committee, and from 2014 to 2017 she was invited by Minister Varadkar to serve on the Oversight Forum on Drugs.