Shaun Shelly is dedicated to the development of rights and evidence-based drug policy. Shaun is an independent consultant to UNODC, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, Harm Reduction International, SANAC and TB HIV Care, where he leads their drug policy unit. During his decade at TBHIV Care he founded the South African Drug Policy Week. He has a research post at the University of Pretoria, Department of Family Medicine, where he worked with the team to conceptualise the City of Tshwane COSUP and train their staff. Shaun is a founding member and Chair of SANPUD, serves on the Strategic Board of the Love Alliance and is Chair of the SANAC Technical Working Group on People Who Use Drugs. He is a former Deputy Secretary of the United Nations VNGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs and holds positions on several advisory boards, locally and Internationally. He was awarded the SASOP award in 2016 for services to psychiatry in the field of addiction and was an Open Society Foundation Drug Policy Fellow. He brings academic, programmatic, research, clinical and lived experience together into a 360 degree-view of the complex issues that inform our understanding and response to certain drugs, and the people who use them. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, reports and book chapters.

Position: Researcher
Academic / Support: Academic Department
Faculty/Department: Health Sciences

• Contact: (012) 420-3111
• Email: [email protected]