Except for being our Research Officer, Iga Jeziorska is also an Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary. Within this capacity, since 2017, she has been coordinating a Working Group on NGOs in Central-Eastern Europe in a non-profit scientific association called Network of Schools and Institutes on Public Administration in CEE (NISPAcee). This year, in Belgrade, Serbia, Iga presented some results from our 2022 civil society-led monitoring of harm reduction, focusing on challenges and needs of harm reduction service providers in European cities.

Even more importantly, however, Iga’s work was appreciated by the Network by being awarded the Mzia Mikeladze Award for the best PhD in the region for her portfolio dissertation titled Understanding the Determinants of Policy Performance in Collaborative Context: The Case of Drug Harm Reduction Services in Central-Eastern Europe, including the peer-reviewed papers that can be accessed here:

A Sin or a Health Issue? Morality Policy Framing and the State of Harm Reduction in East-Central Europe

Collaborative Governance Regimes in Illiberal Democracies: A Comparative Case of Drug Harm Reduction Policy in Central-Eastern Europe

Needle exchange programmes in Visegrad countries: a comparative case study of structural factors in effective service delivery.