Kate is an Addiction Medicine Specialist and Public Health Physician, based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. She cares for people with alcohol or other drug problems in hospital, and has a weekly clinic at the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern. Kate has worked in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services, health professionals and communities for over 20 years – in research and workforce development. She is joint head of the Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Health and Alcohol. Kate has a longstanding commitment to training of the health workforce and is an editor on two clinical textbooks. She has authored over 160 journal articles. Kate chaired the group that revised the Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol (2020). She has acted as consultant for the World Health Organization and has received both Senior Scientist and Mentor Awards from APSAD.

Dr Stockwell is a Scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published over 400 research papers, reports and books on substance use epidemiology and policy. He was a clinician and researcher in the UK before joining Australia’s National Drug Research Institute as Director. Moving to Canada in 2004 he established the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research as a multidisciplinary research enterprise investigating the determinants of harmful substance use and also effective harm reduction strategies. He was a recipient of the international 2013 E.M Jellinek Memorial Award for alcohol research, a recipient of the inaugural national award from Research Canada in 2014 for health research leadership and advocacy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has two daughters, Caitlin and Matilda, and lives in Victoria with his wife Paula.