Kasia Malinowska is the director of the Global Drug Policy Program at the Open Society Foundations, which promotes drug policies rooted in human rights, social justice, and public health. She previously led the Open Society’s International Harm Reduction Development program, which supports the health and human rights of people who use drugs.
Before joining the Open Society Foundations, she worked for the United Nations Development Program in New York and Warsaw, leading capacity building and drug and HIV policy reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Malinowska publishes regularly on drug policy as it relates to women, social justice, health, human rights, civil society, and governance. Her academic publications include works in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the International Journal on Drug Policy. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on “HIV among Drug Users in Poland: The Paradoxes of an Epidemic.”
Malinowska coauthored Poland’s first National AIDS program; helped formulate policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; the World Health Organization; and the Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
Malinowska holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and a DrPH from Columbia University.
Top three media appearances: CBC Radio, Guardian
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The other silence breakers: women in the war on drugs
Open Democracy [March 8, 2018] -
Poland’s Hard-Line Policy on Drugs Has Failed. What Next?
World Politics Review [February 27, 2018] -
The provocative Museum of Drug Policy opens its doors this weekend
Evening Standard [November 2, 2017] -
Want to reduce drug use? Listen to women drug users
Aeon [January 9 , 2017] -
The war on drugs in the Global South
Virgin Unite [April 14, 2016] -
The Current Daily Programming
CBC Radio [October 4, 2018] -
Can UN Leadership Fix Broken Drug Policies? A Call for Ban Ki Moon in Advance of the 2016 UNGASS
Huffington Post [October 11, 2015] -
The UN’s war on drugs is a failure. Is it time for a different approach?
The Guardian [April 2, 2016]