Dr Ting Xia is a Research Fellow with Monash Addiction Research Centre at Monash University with a focus on the use of linked primary health data and hospital data to evaluate the impact of policy changes on opioid prescribing.

Dr Chris Greenwood is an early career researcher at Deakin University. His research primarily uses data from prospective cohort studies to examine developmental changes, antecedents, and consequence of substance use.

Dr Janni Leung is an NHMRC Development Fellow at National Centre For Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR) at The University of Queensland. Their program of research includes investigating the epidemiology of substance use and mental health because they are both major public health issues that commonly occur together.

Professor Michael Farrell FRCP FRCPsych is the Director of NDARC. His extensive research interests include treatment evaluation and drug policy. He has an interest in drug dependence, comorbidity and drugs in the wider criminal justice system. Michael is a member of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug and Alcohol Dependence.