Magdalena Cerdá is a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. Her work integrates approaches from social and psychiatric epidemiology to examine how social contexts and drug and health policies shape drug use and urban violence.

Marie Jauffret-Roustide is a Sociologist, Research Fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. She supervised an international research program on harm reduction policies in different settings focusing on the evaluation of drug consumption rooms and community-based project on gender, migration and stigma in access to care.

Dr. Thomas Kerr, PhD, is a Professor in and the Head of the Division of Social Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and is the Director of Research at the BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU). Dr. Kerr brings over 15 years of clinical experience working with a range of populations, including people who use substances and people living with HIV. His primary research interests involve substance use, harm reduction and health policy and service evaluation. His long history of involvement in healthcare issues in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside includes ground-breaking work on peer-driven interventions, needle exchanges, safe supply and supervised consumption sites. Dr. Kerr has also worked in a number of settings internationally, including in Thailand, Argentina, Australia, France, the US, Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Professor Paul Dietze is one of Australia’s leading alcohol and other drug researchers with a significant national and international profile. With over 20 years of experience, he is one of the leading researchers in the alcohol and other drug sectors in Australia with an extensive history of significant and innovative research into the impact of alcohol and other drugs in the community. He is currently supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship.

Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Glasgow Caledonian University and Honorary Consultant with Public Health Scotland. Sharon’s research focusses on the evaluation of interventions to prevent blood-borne viruses and related harms among people who inject drugs. She recently supported plans for the evaluation of Glasgow’s safer drug consumption facility.

Brandon Marshall is a professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and the founding director of the People, Place & Health Collective at Brown University. His research focuses on substance use epidemiology, with a specific emphasis on harm reduction and overdose prevention. He is passionate about conducting research that improves the health and well-being of people who use drugs.