A/Professor Robert Ali

• Position: Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Problems; Director, Clinical Services & Research, Drug & Alcohol Services South Australia  
• Qualifications: MBBS, Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Graduate Diploma in Public Health, Fellow, Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine
• Location: Room S337, Medical School South Building, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005
• Research: Assoc. Professor Robert Ali is a consultant public health physician who is a graduate from Adelaide Medical School. He has been working in the drug and alcohol field since 1985 and is currently the Director of Clinical Services Research at the Drug & Alcohol Services South Australia and head of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research in Treatment of Drug & Alcohol Problems. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
  Robert has assisted the World Health Organisation through his participation in committees including the Expert Working Party on the Health Implications of Cannabis Use, the Committee on Drug Substitution Therapies, the Evaluation of the Swiss Scientific Studies on Medically Prescribed Narcotics to Dependent Drug Users and he chaired the WHO meeting on Amphetamines, MDMA and other Psychostimulants. He is a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems and is Project coordinator for two World Health Organisation projects entitled " WHO Collaborative Study on Substitution Therapy of Opioid Dependence and HIV/AIDS " and " The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test ". Robert is member of the Cochrane Alcohol and Drug Group editorial board.