I am a lecturer at the University of Otago, in the Department of Population Health. My research interests are focussed on understanding and preventing harms arising from drug use, and how we can use harm data to inform better drug policy.

Naomi is an epidemiologist and research officer working in the National Addiction & Mental Health Surveillance Unit at Turning Point. Her areas of research include addiction, mental health, suicide and self-harm, and blood borne viruses, with special interest in adolescent health and risky behaviours.

Dr Samantha Colledge-Frisby is a Research Fellow at the National Drug Research Institute, and honorary Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. She completed her PhD on the epidemiology of clinical harms among people who inject drugs and her research has focused on reducing morbidity and understanding appropriate and effective prevention and harm reduction strategies for this population.

Georgina Lau is a Westpac Future Leader Scholar and PhD candidate at the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the role of alcohol and other drugs in serious injury events.