Nicola is currently a biostatistician in the Drug Trends program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW. She analyses administrative and online data to monitor extra-medical and illicit drug use in Australia to inform government agencies, NGOs and the general public.

Dr Atefi is a Public Health Registrar at the NSW Ministry of Health in the Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs, and at the NSW Poisons Information Centre. His work involves surveillance for severe and unusual harms relating to illicit and emerging drugs. His clinical experience i in Sexual Health.

Dr Monica Barratt is a drugs-policy researcher at RMIT University and the Executive Director of Bluelight.org. Monica studies digitally facilitated drug trading, novel psychoactive substance trends and markets, drug checking or pill testing, and ways to increase meaningful involvement of people who use drugs in research and policy processes.

Jen is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, and is the national coordinator of the Emerging Drugs Network of Australia (EDNA). EDNA is a prospective toxicosurveillance system of illicit and emerging drugs involved in presentations to sentinel emergency departments across Australia.

Carmen is a PhD Candidate at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research. Her PhD focuses on the impact of cannabis legalisation on emerging products and route of administration.

Dr Rhys Ponton is a pharmacist with over twenty-five years experience in clinical practice and research. He is based at the University of Auckland, where he conducts research into various aspects of substance use, with a specific interest in the methods of drug consumption and associated harm reduction.