Jack is an Associate Professor in infectious disease modelling at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the use of mathematical modelling to help understand the transmission of infectious diseases and impact and cost-effectiveness of prevention measures. Specific expertise focuses on HIV and HCV among people who inject drugs.

Talia Loeb (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology in the infectious disease track at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is broadly interested in the intersection of psychosocial and structural determinants and infectious disease epidemiology, particularly among people who use drugs.

Alexandra Skinner is a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research is primarily focused on evaluating how housing and social policies shape overdose risk at local, state, and federal levels across the United States.

Marie Jauffret-Roustide is a Sociologist, Research Fellow at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in Paris, France. She leads a comparative research program on drug policies with a focus on harm reduction, overdose prevention, community-based and intersectional approaches in France, Europe and North America.

Salwa Musa is a public health nurse and PhD student at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing. Her research explores substance use and harm reduction among Black populations, emphasizing health equity and social determinants of health. She aims to inform culturally sensitive policies that address systemic barriers to care.

Rita Gatonye is a human rights advocate with over a decade’s experience in peer-led harm reduction and drug policy advocacy, and the Director at Women in Response to HIV/AIDS and Drug Addiction; a harm reduction advocacy organization and network of women and young people who use drugs in East Africa.

Marlise works at the intersection of gender, health and human rights, and straddles academia and civil society. She has been involved in law and policy reform on sex work, incarceration, gender based violence and migration.

Juls Budau is a research advisor for UBC's School of Population & Public Health, a Masters of Social Work student at UNBC, and a member of the Working Group for an Evaluation of Decriminalization in BC. She is formerly a frontline harm reduction worker and currently an OAT/safer supply patient.

Alexandra Skinner is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research is primarily focused on evaluating how housing and social policies shape overdose risk at local, state, and federal levels across the United States.

My name is Natalie Jacobs, a Community Linkage Officer for SANPUD. My role is to link people who use drugs to healthcare, I document human rights violation and host advocacy events to make sure that people who use drugs are able to access healthcare facilities without being stigmatized or decriminalized