Annie is currently a PhD Candidate at the CSRH at UNSW. Previously she has been the CEO of AIVL and NUAA and has been actively involved in representing people who use drugs for over 30 years.

Suzanne Nielsen (BPharmSc[Hons] PhD MPS) is an Associate Professor, and Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre in Melbourne. Her current research focuses on expanding evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder, monitoring for new psychoactive substances and and community overdose prevention.

Professor Michael Farrell is the Director of NDARC since 2011. Before that he was Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at Kings College London. He has been a member of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug and Alcohol Dependence since 1995.

Adrian Dunlop MBBS GdipEpiBiostat PhD FAChAM is Director and Senior Staff Specialist of Drug & Alcohol Clinical Services, Hunter New England Health Clinical Services, Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Honorary Medical Officer, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, and DASAS consultant, St Vincent’s LHN.

Louisa Degenhardt is a Scientia Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW Sydney.

I am a nurse based at the Stockholm needle exchange and I was recently accepted as a Doctoral student. The title of my doctoral project is “Interventions for reducing mortality and morbidity among people who inject drugs – effects and experiences of a needle exchange program and naloxone distribution”.

Chrianna is an applied biostatistician who has worked at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre since 2016. Now in the third year of her PhD, Chrianna's doctoral research investigates the potential for linked data and predictive modelling to improve the prevention and treatment of opioid dependence.

Paul Dietze is one of Australia's leading alcohol and other drug researchers, with a track record in research and intervention around opioid overdose in particular.

Anna Conway is a PhD candidate in the Kirby Institute and the Centre for Social Research in Health, investigating health service use and health outcomes in people who use opioids.

Dragos Vlad is a student at Montreal School of Public Health, where he is currently completing a Master’s degree in Epidemiology. His work alongside Dre Julie Bruneau’s team focuses on identifying individual and programmatic factors associated with retention in opioid agonist therapy for people with an opioid use disorder.

Mr Kipkoech is a Statistician/Modeler and currently a PhD Student specializing in Infectious Disease Modeling. He has 10 years’ experience working in research and policy at health-research and government institutions. His research interest focuses on the use of epidemiological/statistical/modeling approaches to understand transmission dynamics and control of infectious diseases.