MUDr. Viktor Mravčík

He graduated at the Medical Faculty at Palacky University in Olomouc in 1993. In 1997, he received first-degree attestation in the discipline of hygiene and epidemiology. In the year 2000, he completed extension attestation in the field of epidemiology (Institute for Post-Graduate Education in Medicine, Prague). He completed international courses in the field of epidemiology and drug policy (Portugal, Netherlands).
In 1993 - 2002, he held different positions in the health sector (in the discipline of hygiene and epidemiology). Before he started to work for the Czech National Focal Point, he had been a leader of the Center of Epidemiology at District Hygiene Station in Karviná. He was a member of the Impact Analysis Project of New Drugs Legislation in the Czech Republic (PAD) research team.

Since 2002 he is the Head of the Czech National Monitoring Centre for Drugs and drug Addiction, which is the member of the Reitox network of Focal Points coordinated by EMCDDA. He is a member of editorial board of the Adiktologie journal . In 2002-2004 he was acting as vice-spokesperson of Reitox network. He is involved in numbers of international projects in the area of drug epidemiology and drug policy.

He is the editor and main author of the Czech Annual Report on Drug Situation commissioned by the Czech government and EMCDDA and an author of many expert studies and articles focusing on drug epidemiology and prevalence of infections in risk population groups.