Prof Nadine Ezard
Director
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
Clinical Research Lead
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
Senior Research Fellow
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
Project Manager
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.
Dr Liam Acheson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Liam is an early career clinical researcher whose PhD was awarded in June 2024.
Seb Baird
Digital Product Manager
Seb is the Digital Product Manager for NCCRED, working on the digital development of the Prompt Response Network and the S-Check app.
Dr Kathryn Fletcher
Senior Research Associate
Kathryn is a clinician researcher with over 15 years of experience in the field of mental health. She has published widely on phenomenology, psychological factors and treatments for psychiatric conditions, and digital health interventions.
Dr Jack Freestone
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Jack Freestone is an NCCRED post-doctoral research fellow. His research at NCCRED focuses on NCCRED’s Prompt Response Network and Australian approaches to monitoring and responding to emerging drugs of concern.
Dora Karavasilis
Knowledge Translation Lead
Dora is a public health professional with expertise in research & knowledge translation, learning & development, vocational education and training, learning design and all types of writing for the health and community sector; also having worked for more than 10 years in the Youth Alcohol and Other Drug sector and in Harm Reduction service delivery.
Ed Broadbent
Project Manager (PRN)
Ed Broadbent is a project manager at NCCRED, currently leading the Prompt Response Network, a national health-led initiative to reduce harms related to emerging drugs.
Dr Cilla Zhou
Research & Partnerships Manager
Cilla is the Research & Partnerships Manager at NCCRED, where she supports NCCRED research activities by fostering national/international partnerships and strengthening consumer collaborations.
Andrea Delgado
Executive Assistant
Andrea is the Executive Assistant for NCCRED. She has a Bachelor Degree in Psychology and a Psychosocial Management Specialisation from the University of Nariño (Colombia).
Harriet MacDonald
Research Assistant
Harriet is a Research Assistant at NCCRED. She has a Bachelors degree in pharmacology and neuroscience from the University of Sydney.
Sophie van der Helder
Research Assistant
Sophie van der Helder is a Research Assistant at NCCRED who recently graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BAdvSci (Hons).
Florence Bascombe
Consultant & Adjunct Lecturer
Florence is a Registered Nurse, with a BSc (Hons) in Nursing, a Diploma in Tropical Nursing and MSc in Public Health with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine