Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is director of the OSI Global Drug Policy Program, based in Warsaw. She was director of the OSI International Harm Reduction Development Program from 1999-2007, which pioneered technical and financial support for more than 200 harm reduction projects across 23 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Malinowska-Sempruch served as a member of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and was a vice chair of the board of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations. She serves on the World Health Organization’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS. She has been a member of the UN Millennium Project’s Task Force on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, and Access to Essential Medicines, as well as the UN Reference Group on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Among Injecting Drug Users.

Before joining the Open Society Institute, Malinowska-Sempruch worked with the UNDP HIV and Development Program in both New York City and her native Poland. She co-authored Poland’s first National AIDS Program and designed training courses for nurses, physicians, social workers, teachers, local policy makers, prison personnel, and psychologists.

She received her master's of social work from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and is now a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s School of Public Health.