Ryan Baldwin is a Research Fellow at Turning Point and Monash University, specialising in adolescent mental health, alcohol policy, and harm reduction. His work leverages the National Ambulance Surveillance System to inform policy and prevention, with a focus on reducing youth suicide, self-harm, and substance-related harms

Professor Dietze is one of Australia's leading alcohol and other drug researchers, with over 29 years' experience in the sector.

Lyra is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Matilda Centre. Her current research focuses on school-based prevention programs targeting substance use, mental ill-health, and other related risk behaviours such as poor diet. She is also coordinating the OurFutures Vaping program randomised controlled trial in 12 NSW Government Schools.

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 at The University of Queensland. Her current research focuses on the drivers and deterrents of illicit tobacco use.

Rakib (Mohammad Rakibul) Islam is a registered counsellor with a multidisciplinary background spanning international development, educational psychology, and counselling. At Odyssey House NSW, he works in the AOD sector and is committed to integrating culturally responsive, evidence-based practice with research. He plans to pursue a PhD on transformative AOD interventions.