Jobs and Opportunities Board

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health seeks a Program Coordinator to support the grant-funded expansion of its Addiction Medicine Fellowship. This initiative will increase the fellowship from two to five fellows annually and strengthen addiction medicine training, clinical services, and workforce development in Philadelphia—a city with overdose death rates twice the national average. Through this expansion, the program aims to improve substance use disorder (SUD) outcomes locally and nationally.

About us

The National Addiction Centre (NAC), incorporating the Addictions Department at King’s College London, is one of the most productive addictions research groups in Europe.

Role

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in 2025 decreased by 20 per cent compared to the previous year, The sharp contraction, together with market indicators, suggest that opium production and trafficking are undergoing major shifts in the region. At the same time, trafficking in synthetic drugs, especially methamphetamine, seems to have increased since the drug ban in Afghanistan, with seizure events in and around Afghanistan higher than before, indicating a growing risk of synthetic drug substitution as opiate production falls.

The jobholder will work as a cost-free second national expert (SNE) under the direct supervision of the Head of the Policy and society (POL) sector within the Policy, crime and markets (PCM) unit. The SNE will contribute to the development, further enhancement and promotion of the competences of the EUDA in drug policies, particularly in the area of cannabis policy. The post supports the EUDA’s goal to contribute to a healthier and more secure Europe.

The Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) program at The Pennsylvania State University seeks qualified Postdoctoral Fellows focused on substance use and addiction. PAMT is an interdisciplinary program at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (www.prevention.psu.edu) in the College of Health and Human Development.

Faculty of Health, University of Dundee. The position is for 18.75 hours per week on a fixed term contract until 31 July 2028. The post holder will act as the researcher for the following study which is being funded by the Chief Scientist Office Scotland:

"Improving outcomes for people with problem substance use and poor mental health: Co-designing psychological treatment delivered inside Virtual Reality nature"

Dr Joe Muriuki Foundation has started communty based rehabilitation programs in different parts of our country.

We have started 4 centers in different churches where we bring together on weekly bases men and women in drugs and alcohol abuse for counseling, community based rehabilitation and shares a meal. These centers are