European Drugs Summer School

Thomas Seyler

 Thomas Seyler is a scientific analyst on drug use and the drug problem at the Public Health unit, EMCDDA. He trained as a field epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the European Centre for Disease  Prevention and Control (EPIET). Before joining the EMCDDA, he worked in outbreak investigations, applied research, surveillance systems and training in Asia, Africa and Europe for infectious diseases such as Influenza, Chikungunya, Plague and  Ebola. At the EMCDDA Thomas is working on the Problem Drug Use (PDU) indicator, measuring the prevalence of the more problematic patterns of drug use in Europe, associated with the highest health risks and social costs, such as heroin use or  injecting.