Gregor Burkhart has for 29 years been responsible for analysing prevention responses in Europe at the EUDA (previously EMCDDA) in Lisbon and has driven the development of databases on evidence-based interventions and policies (Xchange for Europe and EvidenciaViva for Latin America), evaluation and prevention mapping tools and common European indicators on the implementation of prevention strategies and programmes in member states.

 

Gregor was the initiator of the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) and has driven its implementation in currently 32 countries in Europe, with the objective of anchoring evidence-based prevention within the daily practice of local decision-, opinion- and policy makers (DOPs). He is one of the founders of the European Society for Prevention Research (EUSPR) in 2010, and is now its past-president.

 

Other interests: 

Defining and Monitoring of prevention systems:  how to optimise the interaction of evidence-based prevention with the political, structural and organisational systems in different countries?

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Further developing the concept and evidence of environmental prevention:  how to improve more systemic prevention approaches by acknowledging that human behaviour is largely influenced by reactive, impulsive and non-conscious drivers that are shaped by our lived environments?