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. She is also a clinical psychologist at headspace, treating young people with substance use problems and comorbid mental illness. Her research seeks to (a) understand substance use and substance use disorders (with a focus on young people), (b) develop new early interventions and treatments for problematic substance use in youth, and (c) safely leverage the potential therapeutic effects of substances that are also ‘abused’ (e.g., MDMA).