Dr McRobbie is the Regional Director, Northern Region, of the National Public Health Service, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand. He was born and grew up in Pukekohe, graduated with his medical degree from the University of Otago in 1996, a doctorate from the University of London in 2008, and has worked in the field of preventive medicine for over 20 years. Hayden is a Fellow of the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine and Professor in Public Health Interventions at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He is also a Fellow of the Australasian Society for Lifestyle Medicine. Hayden has held positions with the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards, and has contributed to a range of expert working groups, both in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. His areas of interest include the prevention and management of Long Term Conditions and child wellbeing with a particular focus on health equity for Māori.

Joanna is a research assistant at the Burnet Institute within the AOD working group, conducting outreach fieldwork with people who inject drugs and research into AOD use and related harms.

Elizabeth Elliott is Professor of Paediatrics, University of Sydney and Head of the NSW FASD Assessment service at the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. She leads the FASD Hub Australia, FASD Register, led the Australia Guide Diagnosis of FASD and was Co-director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in FASD.

Manager of Toxicity Response, Epidemiology and Surveillance at the Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs, NSW Ministry of Health; and Senior Poisons Specialist in Toxicovigilance at NSW Poisons Information Centre

Rowan is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research and a graduate of University of Melbourne's Master of Public Health with an interest in substance use and disadvantage from an epidemiological perspective.