Professor Sergii Dvoriak

Professor Sergii Dvoriak, M.D., Ph.D. has over 45 years of experience with Addiction Medicine and Psychiatry. After completing post-graduate training in Addiction Medicine and HIV prevention at the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, he worked with UNDP-Ukraine as an expert in public health where with colleagues created the first opioid substitution treatment (OST) program in the country. Later established the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy (UIPHP) with colleagues, where currently serves as the Senior Scientist.

In collaboration with several leading US investigators, he conducted several research projects funded by NIDA/NIH in Ukraine as well as in other countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The projects included community epidemiology, OST, integrated care for PWID, harm reduction and community outreach interventions, and implementation science in public health and within the criminal justice system. He also worked as a UNODC consultant in Central Asia for the last 10 years and have prepared a 5-year plan for the development of MAT in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Over the past 12 years, he worked with the Yale research team and with Alliance for Public Health of Ukraine to develop new models of OST delivery and integrated care for PWIDs in Ukraine. Also successfully worked in several countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including bio-behavioural studies in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan and setting up methadone programs in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova. He also is the Professor of the Department of Social Relations and Social Work at the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism and the Executive Director of the Eurasian Professional association of Addiction Medicine.