Jo Neale has been Professor of Public Health at Oxford Brookes University since 2005. She trained as a social worker in the 1980s and has since held posts at both the Universities of Glasgow (Centre for Drug Misuse Research) and York (Department of Social Policy and Social Work). She has been  researching substance misuse since 1996 and during this time has undertaken a range of quantitative and qualitative studies. These have explored issues such as drug users’ views of pharmacy services; non-fatal drug overdose; service provision for homeless drug users; barriers to accessing drug treatment; user involvement in drug treatment decision-making; drug treatment effectiveness; and drug driving. She is currently working on an ESRC-funded project exploring the everyday lives of recovering heroin users. Jo is a Senior Editor of “Addiction” and on the editorial board of “The International Journal of Drug Policy”. She has published widely in the substance misuse field, including a monograph entitled “Drug Users in Society” (Palgrave, 2001). Her latest book, “Research Methods for Health and Social Care”, was published in 2008, also by Palgrave.