Amy Faden, with 25 years of nursing experience, has dedicated much of her career to providing frontline care to individuals accessing alcohol and other drug services in the ACT and NSW. Holding postgraduate qualifications in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Mental Health, she excelled as a Clinical Nurse Consultant across various settings. Noteworthy accolades include being named the ACT Nurse of the Year in 2010 and serving as the inaugural coordinator for the ACT Supreme Court’s drug and alcohol sentencing list. Amy currently serves as treasurer on the board of the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia (DANA), advocating for nurses' recognition and supporting them in delivering optimal care. Transitioning to the federal government, she persists in challenging negative perceptions surrounding substance use.

Chris Gough is Executive Director of the (CAHMA). He has worked at the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) and the NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA). Chris has served on the Boards of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), NUAA, the ACT Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association (ATODA)

Anke is the Deputy CEO at the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA). Anke is a social scientist with over 25 years’ experience in research and evaluation in the areas of alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, blood borne viruses and workforce development.

Annie is the Executive Director of Harm Reduction Australia and a Project Lead with the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD). She has a PhD in drug policy and from 2000 – 2016 she was the CEO of the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL). She has living experience of injecting drug use, OAT and HCV and has spent over 3 decades advocating for the health, rights and dignity of people who use drugs globally.

As a Māori health researcher I have strong ties to my iwi, Ngāti Hauiti and Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi. Just over twenty years ago I completed a PhD and a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Te Pūmanawa Hauora, the Research Centre for Māori Health and Development, Massey University. I believe research can and should actively improve health outcomes for Māori and others in Aotearoa. With this belief, and knowledge gained from studying, I established Whakauae Research for Māori Health and Development, a tribally owned Māori health research centre in Aotearoa. My research interests for the last twenty years have focused on tobacco control within a broader context of public policy, equity and health service delivery and intervention.

Chris Greenwood is an Early Career Research Fellow at Deakin University. His work primarily focuses on using population-based, cohort studies to examine the antecendents, natural history, and consequences of illicit substance use across adolescence, young adulthood, and into adulthood.

Giang is currently a PhD candidate researching substance use in young people, with a focus on e-cigarette vaping. Her PhD seeks to uncover factors influencing substance misuse in adolescents to provide evidence-based suggestions for public health interventions and substance-use control policies.

Dr Cheneal Puljevic is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame at the School of Public Health. Her current research focuses on the drivers and deterrents of illicit tobacco use.

Tarryn is a research assistant at the Burnet Institute. They recently completed their Master of Public Health with La Trobe University and the Burnet Institute. Their thesis investigated experiences of food insecurity among people who inject drugs in Australia.

Ali Cheetham (PhD) is a Research Fellow at the Monash Addiction Research Centre (MARC) and the Hamilton Centre, the Victorian statewide service for people living with mental illness and substance use or addiction. Her research interests include addressing interpersonal and structural barriers to mental health and addiction treatment, including stigma.

As a passionate harm reduction practitioner and advocate Brett brings a long history of providing AOD brief interventions and case management to his current role as an AOD lived-living experience educator with Insight, Queensland's leading provider of alcohol and other drug training and workforce development services.

Manager of Harm Reduction at ACON & Board Member for NUAA. With a master’s in Social Work, bachelor in Socio-Legal studies, & lived expertise of their own, Georgina is interested in elevating evidence based pragmatic solutions, & advocating that communities impacted by drug policy/ drug use are leading the way.

Zeek (he/him) is an NSP Outreach Worker and Community Health Promotion Officer for Harm Reduction at ACON, and volunteers in the harm reduction sector. Having worked in harm reduction for close to 5 years, Zeek is an advocate for drug law reform and social change.

Benjamin has experience working in the AOD sector for the past 9 years. Benjamin is passionate about supporting people from culturally and linguistically diverse background exiting custodial setting to overcoming obstacles associated with their recovery from substance misuse and crime.

Professor MacLean is recognised for her research on people’s experiences of alcohol consumption, inhalant use and gambling. She I works collaboratively to identify research implications for individuals, local communities and governments. This scoping reviews builds on earlier work that identifies impacts of climate change for people who use substances.