Dr Ingrid van Beek AM
Chair
Dr Ingrid van Beek AM is a public health and addiction medicine physician who worked at the sharp end of harm reduction for more than 30 years.
Prof Michael Farrell – NDARC
Consortium Member
Professor Michael Farrell FRCP FRCPsych is the Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of New South Wales.
Prof Jacqueline Bowden – NCETA
Consortium Member
Professor Jacqueline Bowden is Director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University.
A/Prof Philip Cunningham OAM – SVHS
Consortium Member
Associate Professor Philip Cunningham is the Chief Research Officer (CRO) for the St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney.
Prof Nick Lintzeris – DACRIN
External Board Member
Conjoint Professor Nicholas (Nick) Lintzeris is an Addiction Medicine specialist who has been involved for over two decades in clinical service delivery, research, professional education and policy activities in the field.
Prof Adrian Dunlop – HNELHD
External Board Member
Professor Adrian Dunlop has over 30 years’ experience as an addiction clinician and clinician/researcher. He is the Director and Addiction Medicine Senior Staff Specialist with Hunter New England Local Health District, and a Drug & Alcohol Specialist Advisory Service consultant.
Dr Annalee Stearne – NDRI
External Board Member
Annalee Stearne, a Nyungar from WA, has been working in Curtin University’s National Drug Research Institute since 2001.
Steph Tzanetis – Penington Institute and CAHMA/CanTEST
External Board Member
Steph Tzanetis is the workforce development lead at Penington Institute.
A/Prof Gillinder Bedi
External Board Member
A/Prof Gillinder Bedi is Head of Substance Use Research at Orygen and Principal Research Fellow (Addiction and Youth Mental Health) at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne.
Baillee Farah
External Board Member
Baillee Farah is an advocate and early career researcher working towards more equitable and beneficial health policy and practice, with a focus on alcohol and other drugs.
Anke van der Sterren
External Board Member
Anke van der Sterren is a public health researcher with over 25 years’ experience. Currently, Anke is the Deputy CEO of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA) where she has worked for more than 10 years.
Prof Nadine Ezard
Internal Board Member
Professor Nadine Ezard is the Director of NCCRED. Nadine is also the Clinical Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney Australia home to one of NSW’s first specialist stimulant treatment programs.
Dr Krista Siefried
Internal Board Member
Krista is an experienced Clinician Researcher with broad experience in academic investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored research including multi-centre randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, and case-control studies.
Dr Brendan Clifford
Internal Board Member
Dr Brendan Clifford is a Senior Research Fellow with the National Centre for Clinical Research in Emerging Drugs. Brendan is a clinician researcher who uses interdisciplinary methods to further health equity and enhance access to evidence-based healthcare.
Jemma Hallen
Internal Board Member
Jemma Hallen is the Project Manager for NCCRED and has a Bachelor of Media (PR & Advertising). She started as the Executive Assistant to the Director and was moved to the Project Officer role in September 2020 after acting up in that role for 11 months. She was then promoted to Project Manager in September 2021.