Anu Katainen
work covers public health and consumption in the intersection of social inequalities, substance use and health promotion efforts. Her (2011) concerned the social stratification of smoking behavior, and she has since studied distinctions related to culture and class in adolescents’ meaning-making of alcohol. Katainen is a university lecturer in social policy at the University of Helsinki.
Franca Beccaria
is the head of the research unit at that she founded in 1998 in Turin, Italy. She is an internationally well-known sociologist, working on drinking culture, drug consumption, addiction, lifestyles and policies. She has participated in many cross-countries studies and led several research projects with about 150 publications. She has the Italian qualification of Associate professor in sociology and the position of docent at the University of Helsinki. She is the vice director of the European Masters in Alcohol and Drug Studies (EMDAS) at the University of Piemonte Orientale (IT).
Matilda Hellman
was the Head of group, 2016-2022. Matilda Hellman is part-time affiliated with CEACG as researcher. She supervises several doctoral students and serves as editor in chief for the Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (NAD). She also leads projects concerned with gambling marketing and alcohol policy and during 2022-2023, she is developing the theory of epistemic projects with a research grant from the Gyllenberg foundation. Matilda’s main affiliation is as professor of sociology at Uppsala university ().
Sara Rolando
has been working as a social researcher at since 2007. After several years of collaboration with Finnish research teams, she achieved her doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland, with a thesis comparing youth drinking cultures in different geographies. An expert in qualitative, web-based, and comparative methods, her main research interests are alcohol, gambling, drugs, and other addictive behaviours, which she has been investigating from different perspectives including cultures, careers, prevention, policies. She is currently working in PolEG 2018-2022 project on gambling revenues in seven European countries.
Sanna Rönkä
current research projects focus on social aspects of drug use. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methods in her work, and operates in the fields of sociology, social epidemiology and criminology. Her examined polydrug-related deaths in the context of pharmaceuticalisation. Currently she is also responsible for drug monitoring at the . Rönkä has a broad experience in coordinating several expert networks. Her research interests concern also use and harm of other substances and addictive behaviours, and specifically their societal implications.
Riikka Perälä
Dr Riikka Perälä’s research interests cover the transformations in the government-civil society relationship in Finland in the beginning of 21st century and the position of the most marginalized citizen groups in these transformations. Her latest publications concerned opioid substitution treatment and ‘housing first’ initiatives in the field of mental health and substance abuse treatment. In her current position as Coordinator of Development and Advocacy Work
at the , she follows actively the development of national policies and legislation related to substance abuse treatment.
Tuukka Tammi
has been studying drug policy, harm reduction, treatment systems, gambling, and addictions, as well as broader fields of health and social care systems. He serves as a Lead Expert at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and collaborates closely with the research team of (C-EHRN). Tammi is also the Editor-in-Chief of journal, and an Adjunct Professor (title of Docent) of social and public policy at the University of Helsinki.