Professor Nick Crofts is an epidemiologist and public health practitioner who has been working in the fields of HIV/AIDS, illicit drugs, harm reduction and law enforcement for over 30 years. His major epidemiological work has been on the control of HIV and hepatitis C among injecting drug users in Australia (for which he received an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship) and…

Penny Hill is a PhD candidate at the Burnet Institute investigating the impact of health service use on opioid overdose among people who inject drugs, and works for the Centre for Research Excellence into Injecting Drug Use (CREIDU) and the National Naloxone Reference Group (NNRG). Penny has a background as a community health worker in harm reduction and needle syringe…

Stephanie is a member of the Pill Testing Australia consortium that worked on the 2018 and 2019 ACT trials. She has qualifications in law, humanities, and alcohol and other drugs and is a physical and mental health first aider. She has been Harm Reduction Victoria’s DanceWize program coordinator since July 2013 and is a board member of Drug Policy Australia…

Dr Alex Wodak AM is a physician who was Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney from 1982 until he retired in 2012. Together with colleagues he helped establish Australia’s first needle syringe program, Australia’s first Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, when both were pre-legal, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, the Australian Society of HIV…

James Martin, PhD, SFHEA, is a criminologist and Course Director at Deakin University, and a leading expert and commentator in the field of illicit drugs and black markets. His research has a strong critical emphasis on harm reduction as well as the futility and disastrous consequences of the War on Drugs. […]