Speakers - AWC 2024

Biography

Helena Horálek, Psychologist, Since 2007, she has been working on preventing risk behavior in cooperation with the Department of Addictology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University (CUNI). Since 2019, I have been a permanent employee as an assistant professor at CUNI.

She focuses on quality and efficiency in preventing risky behavior and training professionals. She refers to effective strategies in place of risk behavior prevention at international professional meetings, including implementing quality control of primary prevention standards in practice.

In the Czech Republic, she co-founded the Professional Society for the Prevention of Risky Behaviour, actively advocates for quality control of standards in practice (certification system), and is dedicated to teaching and training future practitioners in prevention. She's an international trainer of Unplugged, EU-Dap, and a National trainer of the EUPC.

In 2019, EUSPR (European Society for Prevention Research) awarded her the “Leading European Prevention Science Practitioner Honour”.