List of nominees for Secretary / Treasurer:
- Bill Stronach
Bill Stronach spent 18 years as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Drug
Foundation which is one of Australia’s leading non-government organisations concerned
with the prevention and reduction of drug related harms. Prior to this, he was Director of
Grassmere Youth Services located on the outskirts of Melbourne, working with juvenile
offenders, homeless and sexually abused young people and their families. For twelve years
before this he taught in secondary schools in the state of Victoria and the UK.
He was a Founding Director and treasurer of the International Harm Reduction Association
(now Harm Reduction International) and a Director of the International Consortium on
Alcohol and Harm Reduction. He has chaired the Boards of Anex (Association of Needle and
Syringe Programs), Harm Reduction Victoria and the City of Melbourne’s Safe City
Licensees Accord Monitoring Committee.
He was previously a member of the Victorian Premier’s Drug Prevention Council, the
Victorian Alcohol and Drug Prevention Council, the Victorian Government’s Alcohol Strategy
Planning Group and the Advisory Committee for the Centre for Harm Reduction at the
Burnet Centre, Melbourne, Australia and a member of the Victorian Child Death Review
Committee.
He chaired the Organising Committees for the 3rd (Melbourne), 7th (Hobart) and 15th
(Melbourne) International Conferences on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm
In 2012 he co-founded and continues as a Director of the Centre for Law Enforcement and
Public Health and has been on the organising committees of all the six international LEPH
Conferences held to date. The Centre closed and incorporated into GLEPHA.
In 2017 he was the founding secretary and treasurer of the inaugural board of the Global
Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA), a role he continues to this day.
He brings extensive organisational, program and conference strategic management
experience both within and beyond the public health and related sectors.