Dr Louisa Picco (MPH, PhD) is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow at the Monash Addiction Research Centre in Melbourne. Her research areas of interest include identifying and responding to prescription opioid related risks and harms, particularly through the implementation of prescription drug monitoring programs.

Baillee Farah is the National Research Coordinator of SSDP Australia and a postgraduate research student at NDARC, UNSW Sydney. Baillee is a researcher, advocate, educator, and student. Their work focusses on participatory research and research ethics, drug policy, harm reduction, pleasure, nightlife, young people, and drug education.

Simon Lenton is the Director of the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University

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.

Caitlin Hughes is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Drug Policy at Flinders University; Visiting Fellow at NDARC, UNSW and President of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy. Her research focuses on drug law enforcement, drug laws and drug markets and identifying avenues to reduce drug-related harm.

Caitlin is the Communications Coordinator for SSDP Australia. Her background is in medicinal chemistry and law, and she is currently a program specialist at DanceWize NSW. Caitlin is also a research assistant at UNSW and an independent consultant for the Office of the 24-Hour Economy Commissioner on festival and nightlife safety and harm reduction best practice

Armin Muminovic is a Research Assistant with NCETA and holds a Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences (Honours) from the University of Adelaide, along with a Graduate Certificate in Public Health from Flinders University.

Dr Trigg is a behavioural scientist whose work focuses on health risk factors and attitudes, and motivators of risk-taking behaviour. He studies nicotine vaping, tobacco, and alcohol attitudes and behaviours, and preventive health communication design. He has also examined motivators and inhibitors of emergency behaviour, and quality of life.

Ms. Ara Cho is a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. Her PhD research focuses on examining the impact of tobacco tax increases on smoking behaviours and tobacco product purchasing patterns.