Joo Yeon Park is the Team Leader of the Narcotics Policy Support Team at the Korea Institute of Drug Safety &Risk Management (KIDS) since 2022. She has been with KIDS since 2012 and holds a master’s degree from the School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University.

Dr Vicki Macfarlane (Te Arawa) is an addiction specialist working in Auckland. She is a Fellow of RNZCGP, AChAM, NZ representative on the FAChAM committee and on the board of Whare Tukutuku, the National Māori Addiction Centre. Vicki has worked for the Auckland Community Alcohol and Drug Services since 2010.

Jodie Matar is a Research Fellow in Addiction Research at Turning Point, Eastern Health Clinical School and Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. She also serves as Project Manager for the NHMRC MRRF Grant, MAKINGtheLINK, an evidence-based school mental health program for Year 9 adolescents. Jodie is a registered Psychologist working in private practice, focusing on providing treatment and support for adolescents and emerging adults (12 to 25 years) and their families. She is currently completing her PhD (final year), which examines help-seeking behaviours for mental health concerns, including substance use, among adolescents within a specific at-risk group. Her research and clinical practice are underpinned by a strong commitment to prevention and early intervention in adolescent mental health, shaped by extensive lived experience supporting family members affected by substance misuse and addiction.

I’m a Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Population Health, at the University of Otago (Christchurch campus). My research focusses on understanding and preventing drug harm, and how harm data can inform evidence-based drug policy.

Amelia is the Coordinator of Fuse Initiatives at Harm Reduction Victoria. In nearly 15 years of working in harm reduction she has developed best practice frameworks, guidelines and training for employing Harm Reduction Peer Workers who have lived/living experience of drug use. She also provides discipline-specific support and supervision.