Dr Marianne Jauncey is a public health physician who has worked at the pointy end of harm reduction for decades. She started work in Kings Cross in 1998, and has been the Medical Director of the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) since 2008. Marianne is proud of the influence that she and her service have had not only within Uniting, the services and advocacy arm of the Uniting Church in NSW/ACT that holds the licence to operate the MSIC, but more broadly. Marianne knows that to effect attitudinal and policy change, the narrative about people who use drugs needs to be framed by fairness, equity, and compassion. To this end Marianne has conducted countless media interviews and community led conversations to improve understanding about harm reduction and the nature drug use. She is passionate about improving the lives of people who use drugs and is always keen to get people taking about ways to make this happen.

Dr Grace FitzGerald is an Advanced Trainee in Addiction Medicine and General and Acute Care Medicine, based in Naarm.

Dr Allcroft graduated from Flinders University School of Medicine in 1989, and completed Physician training, initially specialising in Thoracic and Sleep Medicine. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at Southern Adelaide Palliative Services in South Australia and is a Clinical Adviser for Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) for the South Australian Department of Health and Wellbeing, Chairs the Board of Directors for Palliative Care Australia, and has been a member of MND South Australia Board for 10 years. He completed his Masters in Palliative Care and is currently undertaking a PhD exploring models of palliative care for people with advanced heart failure. He cofounded the Motor Neurone Disease Clinic in South Australia 25 years ago. This clinic is a multi-disciplinary clinic and cares for 150 patients on average living with MND and has been awarded South Australian and International Awards for clinical care. He has a special interest in the palliative care approach for people living with advanced neuro-degenerative disease and is a member of the EAPC Neuro-palliative Care Special Interest Group. He is a strong advocate for teaching and research for all health care professionals and is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Medicine Flinders University, and a member of the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death, and Dying (RePaDD) hosted at Flinders University. In 2024 he was awarded a Gold Medal by MND Australia to recognise his contribution to Australians living with MND.

Sione Crawford has been working in peer-based organisations of people who use drugs since 2004. He has worked as a peer-educator, in community development and in policy and leadership positions. Sione has lived and living experience of hepatitis C treatment, injecting drug use, opioid dependence treatment and the stigma and discrimination that attaches to these experiences. Sione is currently the CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria: the organisation representing people who use drugs in Victoria, Australia. HRVic works with their community to ensure access to health care and human rights for people who use drugs. HRVic also provides peer- based services from festival harm reduction to needle and syringe programs to system and peer navigation and is instrumental in developing the lived and living workforce in Victoria.