Andrew Bennett
Andrew is the Public Health Lead at the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership, UK. The organisation is one of 20 Violence Reduction Units across England and Wales that assesses, implements and evaluates effective ways of tackling serious youth violence.
Andrew has been involved in nightlife related issues for many years participating in local nightlife strategic planning; implementing communication campaigns; providing training and conducting research. A former youth worker and drug worker and manager, Andrew established one of the first syringe exchange programmes in the mid-1980s in the UK. He was the Managing Director at HIT, a national agency providing drug and other public health interventions, from 1994 to 2006. During this time HIT became an internationally respected advocate and provider of consumer-based harm reduction approaches to drug and other health-related behaviours.
Andrew spoke at the first Club Health conference and has attended many more. Along with host city colleagues, he has organised Club Health conferences in Prague, San Francisco, Lisbon, Dublin, Amsterdam and Liverpool.