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 for the six international LEPH Conferences held to date.
In 2017 he was elected as Secretary and Treasurer of the inaugural board of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association. He brings extensive conference organising and management experience both within and beyond the public health sector.