Professor Coral Gartner is an international expert in tobacco control policy and is the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (Tobacco Endgame CRE), an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network funded by an NHMRC Synergy Grant. She the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control, after serving as a senior editor from 2012-2018 and then the Australasian regional editor. She is a Past President of the Oceania Chapter of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT-O).

Daniel Stjepanovic is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research at The University of Queensland. His work focusses on alcohol, cannabis and nicotine use, applying a range of methodologies from experimental designs, large surveys and qualitative interviewing.

Melissa works as a Research Coordinator and Psychologist specialising in substance use and comorbidity. She holds a PhD in Behavioural Science and Master of Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on tobacco and substance use interventions, both behavioural and pharmacological, and has extensive experience in clinical trials, teaching, and multidisciplinary collaboration.