17th Conference of INEBRIA, 22th, 23th, 24th September 2021, Virtual, Goa (India)

First Plenary Session, entitled “Influence of COVID-19 pandemic on SBI work: An interactive panel discussion”

Featuring a speaker and other panelists from all Global Regions

Plenary Speaker: Professor Kate Conigrave, conjoint Professor at the University of Sydney and joint director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Health and Alcohol, University of Sydney, Australia

Technical expert meeting on building capacity in screening and brief interventions in Russian-language populations

(This event is a part of the INEBRIA conference. It is a satellite event organized by WHO European office for Russian delegates to start a conversation on SBI in Russian speaking populations).

Note: The session will be organized in Russian language but the translation in English will also be available.

Second Plenary Session, entitled “Overview of Screening and Brief Interventions in India; gaps in India and ways forward”

Plenary Speaker: Professor Pratima Murthy, Director and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India

Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment in Pediatric Primary Care: Long-Term Impacts on Substance Use and Healthcare Utilization

Presenter: Stacy Sterling, USA

Development, feasibility, and preliminary validation of a Spanish language version of the TAPS Tool for substance use screening in primary care

Presenter: Jan Gryczynski, USA

Readiness to change in men with risk and harmful alcohol use: Effect of Brief Group Intervention

Presenter: Erika León Ramírez, Brazil

Brief online negative affect focused functional imagery training improves two-week intermediate drinking outcomes among hazardous student drinkers: a pilot study

Presenter: Ruichong Shuai, UK

Predictors and moderators of substance use and sexual risk behaviors of adolescents after brief interventions

Presenter: Anjalee Sharma, USA

Third Plenary Session, Nick Heather lecture entitled “Implementation of SBI: Why isn’t it happening and what can be done about it”

Plenary Speaker: Professor Sven Andreasson, Professor at the department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Fourth Plenary Session, entitled “The High-income country/ low- and middle-income country (HIC/LMIC) divide in the uptake in Digital approaches to Screening and Brief Interventions for alcohol and other substances/behaviours; challenges/ opportunities; what can be replicated”

Plenary Speakers: Professor Kypros Kypri, Professor at the School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Newcastle, Australia and Professor Atul Ambekar, Professor at the prestigious National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), AIIMS, New Delhi

MULTI- Volunteer based student initiative to address the public health challenge of substance use disorders Symposium

Chairperson: Shilpa Nellikkal, India

Are nurses in government hospitals of a metro city equipped with knowledge and skill to manage psychoactive substance use in their patients?

Presenter: Sugavan Aselvi, India

Learning Collaborative to Improve Care for Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Barriers and Facilitators

Presenter: Fern McCree, USA

Effectiveness of a Nurse-Conducted Brief Interventions in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorders admitted in Gastroenterology ward, using a house-to-house survey – A case-control study

Presenter: Johnson Pradeep, India

Application of BI Module for persons with Cannabis Dependence (CD)

Presenter: Mohammed Shah, India

Development of an informed library and telephone health coaching intervention for diverse community health center patients who use drugs in Los Angeles

Presenter: Dallas Swendeman, USA

Development of a Training Module on Substance Abuse Awareness and Prevention for Field Functionaries Working in Grassroots Communities

Presenter: Sonia Sain, India

Exploration of college Students’ perceptions regarding cannabis use: a community study from Bangalore, south India

Presenter: Kannan K, India

Development and feasibility testing of an intervention to help women in the community to quit addictive substance use

Presenter: Sunitha T S, India

A pilot study evaluating self-reported outcomes among hepatologists attending a program for training on alcohol use disorder management

Presenter: Jayant Mahadevan, India

Community pharmacists and their roles, attitudes and knowledges about detection and advise of alcohol use in Catalonia

Presenter: Jorge Palacio-Vieira, Spain

Fifth Plenary Session, entitled “Action towards problematic gaming at international and national levels”

Plenary Speaker: Professor Wei Hao, Professor of Psychiatry in Mental Health Institute, Central South University, Changsha, China and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Psychosocial Factors, Substance Abuse and Health

Behavioral health problems and psychosocial risk factors in youth in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for SBIRT

Symposium Chairperson: Stacy Sterling, USA

An exploration of the feasibility and acceptability of delivering screening and brief interventions to women in prison

Presenter: Jennifer Ferguson, England

Outcome Reporting in Brief Intervention Trials: Alcohol’ (ORBITAL) core outcome set: from international consensus to international use?

Presenter: Gillian Shorter, Northern Ireland

Efficacy of a novel Brief motivational intervention for alcohol-intoxicated young adults in the emergency department: A randomized controlled trial

Presenter: Jacques Gaume, Switzerland

Referral for Brief Intervention for Problematic Alcohol Use (PAU) among Transgender Females -What do community members think? A Qualitative Study

Presenter: Sree T Sucharitha, India

SBIRT on reducing the risky and harmful consumption of alcohol, in workers of an urban transports service

Presenter: Tereza Barroso, Portugal

Efficacy of Brief Intervention among university students with different levels of severity of alcohol use related problems

Presenter: Paula Gimenez, Argentina

Reducing women alcohol use: Experience of brief interventions at a primary health care service in Brazil

Presenter: Divane de Vargas – Brazil

Training Common Factors in Addictions Treatment: Teaching frontline providers to do what they already do, but really, really well

Presenter: Molly Magill USA

False Negatives in Urine Drug Screening to Inform Directed Expansion of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Trauma Patients

Presenter: Stephanie Weiss, USA

Screening and Brief Interventions for Excessive Alcohol Use during Pregnancy: Practices Among U.S. Primary Care Providers, DocStyles 2019

Presenter: Caitlin Green, USA

The impact of COVID -19 on alcohol measurement rates in primary health care (PHCC Us) in Mexico

Presenter: Guillermina Natera, Mexico

Sixth Plenary Session, entitled “Changing practice by changing the system? Accelerating implementation of alcohol brief interventions in low-and-middle-income countries”

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Amy O’Donnell, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Advanced Fellow at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK