Dr Olsen is Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Medicine at the ANU Medical School. Her interdisciplinary program of research combines practical and critical approaches to public health, with a particular interest in marginalised populations and qualitative methodologies. Current research includes: drug checking; opioid overdose prevention; drug use and motherhood; domestic and family violence; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health; and ethical practice in social research. She values collaborative approaches to research and has extensive experience working with government and community on evaluation and research projects.

Chris Gough is the Executive Director of the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA) and The Connection health service and is the President of the Board of the Australian Illicit and Injecting Drug Users League (AIVL). He identifies as a person who uses drugs and Chris’ expertise centres around peer and consumer driven programming including peer education, peer treatment support, community development, consumer representation and advocacy.

I am a New Zealander of British and Polish descent, with strong roots in Aotearoa New Zealand. I work as a Professor in Public Health at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, where I am the Academic Director of the National Institute for Health Innovation, a member of the Centre for Addiction Research and Centre for Heart Health. I trained as a physician, and after a decade in clinical practice mostly in Papua New Guinea, trained as a public health medicine specialist. My group’s research generally involves large pragmatic clinical trials of affordable and scalable interventions. We have shown the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions such as text messaging, pre-quitting nicotine replacement therapy, e-cigarettes, cytisine, and reducing nicotine content in cigarettes. I have published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and am President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.