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Dr. Michael P. Schaub is Associate Professor at the University of Zurich and the Scientific Director of the Swiss Research Institute of Public Health and Addiction ISGF, a WHO Collaborating Centre, associated with the University of Zurich. He is a trained psychotherapist with a strong clinical and scientific background as well as a public health expert in the area of substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. He completed his Ph.D. in 2005 on the topic of cannabis use, its associated personality dimensions in the general population, and co-occurring mental-health problems in vulnerable persons. In 2012 he received his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) for psychology, with the specialization for “treatment and diagnostic of substance use disorders” at the University of Zurich. In 2014 Dr. Schaub received the Best Scientific Paper Award from the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). One of his current main focus is on internet interventions for the reduction of substance use and substance use disorders as well as for the treatment of behavioral addictions.
Dr. Schaub has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. He is scientific expert in addiction research for the World Health Organization WHO and at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC. Currently, he is the PI of the effectiveness study on the new WHO web-based self-help intervention Drink Less conducted in Belarus, Brazil, India and Mexico.