Linda Montanari

Linda Montanari is a health sociologist and is working since 2000as principal scientist at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in the public health unit- support to policy sector.

At the centre she is coordinating the areas of gender and drugs, prison and drug and comorbidity. Since some years she is focusing particularly on the implementation of a gender perspective in drug monitoring and, together with the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe and other international organisations, she has set up a European group on gender and drugs and coordinated the organisation of the gender and drugs conference in November 2022 as side event to Lisbon Addiction conference. She closely followed the work of the Swedish presidency work of the Council of the EU in the six months of their mandate.