Prof. Heino Stöver

Teaching and lecturing

• System of addiction care and prevention (goals, methods, results)
• Health and social work research
• Gender specificity in health and social work research
• Planning and evaluations of assistance services
• Developing innovative, needs-based health care strategies and practice
• Health and corrections (www.gesundinhaft.eu)

Advisory activities

• Council of Europe - Health in prisons
• EU Commission "DG Enlargement, D4 - Institution Building Unit (TAIEX)"
• Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
• GTZ - Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit - Latvia/Bangladesh
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva, Switzerland; for Armenia and Azerbaijan
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Holland; for Russia
• The World Bank - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development International Development Association for: Latvia
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); for: Islamic Republic of Iran
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for: Baltic countries
• United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC; regional offices for North Africa/Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa, and the headquarters in Vienna)
• World Health Organization (WHO/Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen and WHO Headquarters in Geneva)
• IRCP - Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Universiteit Gent | Vakgroep Strafrecht&Criminologie, Belgium

Focus of publications and research

• Addiction services/structures, drug policy
• Gender specificity in health care with a focus on youth/male specific orientations
• Evaluations of the effectiveness of assistance services (acceptance, utilisation behaviour, adherence) within the correctional system (national and international), the work of health and social institutions (e.g. drug/AIDS assistance facilities, municipal/regional and also nationwide care structures)
• Development of new intervention concepts (e.g. in addiction counseling and treatment), as well as development of methods (strengthening of social competence with the help of peer-involvement/empowerment strategies)
• Planning of needs-based health care strategies and practice development (e.g. in the areas of addiction, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis; internationally, especially in the area of 'health care for imprisoned people'

Bachelor of Social Work

• Module 3: Society and personality - Fundamentals 
• Module 6.2: Interdisciplinary case seminar
• Module 9.2: Psychosocial references of social work 
• Module 17.2: Major module: Exclusion and integration 
• Module 18.2: Practice module for major: exclusion and integration
• Module 22: Bachelor thesis with colloquium 
• Module 23: Project outline

Master of Addiction Therapy and Social Management in Addiction Care

• Module 1: Bio-psycho-social conditions of addiction and comorbidities
• Module 7: Addiction prevention and health promotion

Since 2009 Appointed to a professorship at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Science Addiction Research

Since 1 September 2009 Executive Director of the Institute for Addiction Research at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (ISFF) 

2007-2009 Research Associate at the University of Bremen 

2006-2007 Substitute Professor with focus on health promotion and prevention in the "Public Health" study programme at the University of Bremen

2006 Associate Professor

2003 Rehabilitation in "Educational Science with a focus on Health Promotion and Health Sciences"

2001-2006 Research Associate at the University of Bremen

2000 Habilitation at the Carl-von-Ossietzky-University of Oldenburg

1996-2001 Research Associate at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

1981-1995 Co-founder and board member of a low-threshold institution "Kommunale Drogenpolitik/Verein für Akzeptierende Drogenarbeit" (Municipal Drug Policy / Association for Accepting Drug Work) in Bremen

1992 PhD at the University of Bremen (degree: Dr. rer.pol.)

1982 Diploma examination in social science

Publications by Prof. Dr. Heino Stöver (only in German)

• Executive Director of the Institute for Addiction Research at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (ISFF) 
• Mid-term evaluation of the Latvian national HIV program: 2009-2013; client: WHO Regional Office for Europe (February-March 2011)
• Lifestyles and health promotion of older drug addicts in Frankfurt am Main. Aid Programme: Research for the Practice of the Hessian Universities of Applied Sciences, 2009 (Start: 1 Sept. 2009 - 31 Oct. 2010)  Project management
• 1 Oct. 2009-31 March 2010: IMPROVE: Opioid substitution treatment in Germany: insights and opportunities (2010) (Start: 1 Oct. 2009 - 31 March 2010)  Project Management
• AG Addiction and Substitution Medicine SubsCare Study
• "Doing gender: meanings and functions of alcohol consumption and binge drinking in the staging of masculinity and femininity in different social milieus” (client: Hessian Ministry of Science and Arts, HWMK, 1 Aug. 2010 - 31 Dec. 2011) Project Management
• "Study on the Development of an EU Framework for Minimum quality standards and benchmarks in drug demand reduction” (DG JLS 2010/DPIP/PR/1023; Head: Prof. Dr. A. Uchtenhagen, Zurich
• "ACCESS" - Access to harm reduction and continuity of care for drug users in custody" - client: European Commission JUST/2009/DPIP/AG/0950-30-CE-0385814/00-47)(1 Feb. 2011 - 31 Jan. 2013)
• "Identification and optimisation of evidence-based HCV prevention in Europe for young drug users at risk". Client: European Commission, Department JLS - Drug Prevention and Information Programme, Project No.: JLS/2008/DPIP/AG/142)2010-2011 (ongoing)
• Scientific monitoring and evaluation of the federal model project "Early Intervention Measures for Hepatitis C Prevention" (client: Senate Administration for Health, Environment and Consumer Protection of the Federal State of Berlin (Contract No. 006-2008 / I B 34) of 12 Sept. 2008)
• "Tobacco prevention in prisons" - (client: Federal Ministry of Health, model measures and research projects in the field of drug and substance abuse, federal grants from Chapter 15 02, Title 684 69 in fiscal years 2010/2011)

• Co-founder and CEO of the "Information and Research Center for Alcohol, Tobacco, Medication, Drugs and Addiction"
  www.archido.de
• Co-founder and chairman of the "Federation for Accepting Drug Work and Humane Drug Policy - akzept e.V".
  www.akzept.org
• Co-founder and executive director of the "Bremen Institute for Drug Research, BISDRO at the University of Bremen
  www.bisdro.uni-bremen.de
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal State Health Association.www.gesundheit-nds.de
• Co-founder of the peer-reviewed quarterly: "International Journal of Prisoner Health" (since 1 Sept. 08 on the Editorial Board)
  Publisher: Taylor and Francis, Oxford/UKwww.tandf.co.uk

since 1 Sept. 2009

Member of the Reference Group to the United Nations on HIV and Injecting Drug Use www.idurefgroup.unsw.edu.au

since 1 Sept. 2009

Member of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the German Centre for Addiction Issues www.dhs.de/web/dhs/kuratorium.php

since 1 July 2009

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal "Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Psychosomatik" (IZPP)www.izpp.de/ ISSN: 1869-6880

since 2009

Member of the Scientific Board of Trustees of the German Centre for Addiction Issues (DHS)

since 2007

Member of the German Working Group for "Infectious Diseases" of the German Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (DBDD) www.dbdd.de/content/view/75/103/

since 1 Jan. 2005

Member of the Offender Health Research Network
www.ohrn.nhs.uk

since 1 Jan. 2004

Co-founder and member of the Action Alliance for Hepatitis and Drug Use
www.akzept.org

since 1 Jan. 2000

Member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Suchttherapie"
Publisher:www.thieme.de

since 1 Feb. 1998

Contact person for Germany in the network "European HIV/AIDS and Drug Services in Prisons" (EU-funded network, coordinated by the Scientific Institute of Doctors in Germany - WIAD)

since 1 Jan. 1994

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Association for Accepting Drug Work and Humane Drug Policy e.V.www.akzept.org

16 Jan. 2012

Responsible gambling - notice to players, obligations of providers; Responsible gambling
Online gambling in Schleswig-Holstein, in Norderstedt/ Schleswig-Holstein 

14 Dec. 2011

Faster, better, more effective and always fit! - Changes in the world of work and social life
Medicines in society and the world of work, lecture to the AK

Addiction in the world of work - Rhine/Main
Frankfurt, DECHEMA

5 Dec. 2011

Barriers to opioid substitution treatment, access, entry and retention: A survey of opioid users, patients in treatment, and treating and non-treating physicians 
IMPROVE Study; Presentation on the Global Addiction Conference 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

30 Nov. -1 Dec. 2011

Smoke-free in closed rooms and settings - also in prisons and forensics?
Presentation (together with Catherine Ritter) at the Satellite Symposium of the German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association  - 9th German Conference on Tobacco Control, Heidelberg

30 Nov. -1 Dec. 2011 

Non-smoker protection in prisons
Presentation (together with Catherine Ritter) at the 9th German Conference on Tobacco Control, Heidelberg. German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association