Who are experts in the field of harm reduction and human rights?

Daniel Wolfe

Daniel Wolfe, Director of the International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD) program at the Open Society Institute, is an advocate whose work has included community organizing and public media campaigns to repeal discriminatory legislation, boost AIDS funding, and raise the public profile of people with HIV. IHRD has supported more than two hundred harm reduction programs in Asia and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Wolfe has been a community scholar at Columbia University’s Center for History and Ethics of Public Health, the recipient of the Revson Fellowship awarded to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the city of New York, and the director of communications at GMHC, the largest and oldest AIDS NGO in the U.S. Wolfe has written widely on the intersection between drug policy and HIV prevention, and is the co-author of a working paper commissioned by the HIV/AIDS Task Force of the Millennium Project of the United Nations to examine the effects of UN and national illicit drug policies on the spread of HIV in countries with injection driven epidemics and a survey by the Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network on the state of HIV and primary care for injection drug users in the former Soviet Union. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles in publications including the New York Times Book Review, International Herald Tribune, International Journal of Drug Policy the Nation, and the Village Voice.

Balázs Dénes

Balázs Dénes is the Executive Director of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, a non-profit human rights watchdog organization founded in Hungary in 1994. Mr. Dénes got his law degree in 1998, and since than he has been working for the HCLU. He used to be the Drug Policy Program Director of the organization, and since Fall of 2004 he has served as the 2nd Executive Director of the HCLU. Mr. Dénes is a 2003-2004 Columbia University/PILI fellow and he is the *founding* secretary of the Hungarian Harm Reduction Association, and member of the steering committee of the Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network. He is the author of several mass media articles and is a frequently cited expert on questions related to drug policy, harm reduction, health-care laws, and human rights in Hungary.