Dr. Rhodes is Director of the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, and Professor of Public Health Sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He leads a program of research investigating the social aspects of drug use and drug-related health harm. His work, which involves primarily qualitative studies, focuses on the social science of HIV and hepatitis C risk and treatment, with an emphasis on Russia, Southeastern Europe and the UK. He has undertaken consultancies for WHO, UNAIDS and UNICEF, and the Department for International Development (UK). He is Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Drug Policy and is an Honorary Professor of Public Health Sociology at the University of New South Wales.