Professor Suzanne Nielsen (BPharmSc[Hons] PhD MPS) is the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre at Monash University in Melbourne. She has been a registered pharmacist for over 20 years, with clinical experience in the treatment of substance use disorders in community pharmacy and specialist drug treatment settings.

Amy McNeilage is PhD Candidate and Senior Research Officer at The University of Sydney studying gabapentinoid-related harms. She has developed expertise in qualitative methodology and has demonstrated the quality of her research with publications in several leading journals, including IJDP, PAIN, & IJDP.

Dr Ria Hopkins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, examining patterns of medicine use and associated outcomes. She is interested in potentially high-risk medicines including opioid and psychotropic medicines, and priority populations including people living with pain or mental health conditions.

Dr Ting Xia is a Research Fellow with Monash Addiction Research Centre at Monash University with a focus on the use of linked primary health data and hospital data to evaluate the impact of policy changes on opioid prescribing.

Dr Hester Wilson, FRACGP, FAChAM, is a GP, Clinical Director of Drug and Alcohol in Murrumbidgee Local Health District, Medical Advisor for South East Sydney Local Health District, chair of Addiction SIG in the RACGP, PhD candidate and conjoint senior lecturer at UNSW and Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist for NSW.

Ms. Haynes is a PhD Candidate at the University of Wollongong and is conducting research on women's experiences of treatment for opioid use disorder, particularly their experiences of person-centred care. She has been engaged in numerous other research projects through her work as a research assistant.

Grace Shuttleworth is a Clinical Psychologist, currently employed by Lives Lived Well as the Clinical Research and Program Content Lead. Grace has worked across residential, community, hospital and correctional facilities, providing support for substance use concerns. Past research has focused on the effective integration lived-experience approaches in clinical services.

Shelley is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne office of the National Drug Research Institute. She is a recipient of an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award about police custody and young people, and is passionate about social justice and human rights issues.

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.