Meg Bagnall is the AOD and Family Violence Lead at VAADA, exploring the intersections of gender-based violence and substance use. She advocates for gender-responsive frameworks to address the complex challenges faced by women and gender-diverse individuals, aiming to improve systemic responses and outcomes in the AOD sector.

Gillian currently works with VAADA as the strategy and reform manager. She brings over 20 years of clinical, workforce development, project management and policy experience to this role. Her professional role as a social worker with a Masters in Addictive Behaviours provides a strong psychosocial framing for her work.

Amany, a graduate researcher at La Trobe University's CAPR, is pursuing a PhD within the ARC-funded AHTO project. Her research focuses on alcohol-related domestic violence, especially harm to intimate partners, using various perspectives and quantitative and mixed methods to understand alcohol's role in domestic violence in Australia.

Kye Bancroft-Gardiner is employed at La Trobe University as an Aboriginal Research Fellow. Kye is a Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung descendant. He has a strong interest in working with Community to build on strengths and to address social problems such as gambling.

Lirelle Bennett works as a Victorian Gambling Counsellor at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service. She is a proud Ngāti Ranginui woman, with a Bachelor’s in Health Sciences from the University of Auckland (postgraduate specialisations in mental health and addiction studies). Lirelle has worked in the community sector for the last twelve years.

Sarah MacLean is a professor in Social Work and Social Policy and is affiliated with the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University. Her ancestors hail from the United Kingdom. She has published extensively on alcohol and inhalant use and, in recent years, also on gambling.

Nick is a clinical psychologist with experience working across a range of settings in mental health and AOD clinical work. His doctoral thesis research focused on the assessment and treatment of trauma, work which has continued with the UQ LLW Research Group and Lives Lived Well, contributing to implementation projects.

Meg Bagnall is the AOD and Family Violence Lead at VAADA, exploring the intersections of gender-based violence and substance use. She advocates for gender-responsive frameworks to address the complex challenges faced by women and gender-diverse individuals, aiming to improve systemic responses and outcomes in the AOD sector.

Dr Tayla Degan is a Lecturer on the post-graduate psychology programs at the University of Wollongong and an adjunct with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), University of New South Wales. She is also a registered Clinical Psychologist working in private practice. Tayla is involved with substance use and mental health research including the Tina Trial, a Phase III randomised placebo-controlled trial examining mirtazapine for methamphetamine use disorder. Her research has also explored the health literacy of people accessing mental health and substance use disorder treatment services, the implementation of continuing care, and the evaluation of substance use disorder treatment.