Research Team

DPMP Team

Chief Investigators

RITTER, Alison	DPMP Director and Chief Investigator
COLEBATCH, Hal	DPMP Chief Investigator
DIETZE, Paul	DPMP Chief Investigator
LENTON, Simon	DPMP Chief Investigator
MAZEROLLE, Lorraine	DPMP Chief Investigator
PEREZ, Pascal	DPMP Chief Investigator
ROOM, Robin	DPMP Chief Investigator

BRIGHT, David	DPMP Associate Investigator
CAULKINS, Jonathan	Technical Advisor
CHALMERS, Jenny	DPMP Associate Investigator &Senior Research Fellow, Central Team
DREW, Jacqueline	Co-Chief Investigator, Demonstration Project 2
FAES, Colleen	Administrative Officer & EA to Alison Ritter, Central Team
GRAY-WEALE, Florence	Research Assistant, Central Team
HAMILTON, Margaret	Chair, DPMP Advisory Group
HUGHES, Caitlin	DPMP Associate Investigator & Research Fellow, Central Team
LANCASTER, Kari	Research Officer, Central Team
MANNING, Matthew	Research Fellow, Griffith University
MATTHEW-SIMMONS, Francis	Research Associate, Central Team
MCDONALD, David	Project leader, located at ANU
MCGUFFOG, Ingrid	PhD Student & Research Assistant, located at Griffith University
MCSWEENEY, Tim	PhD Student, located at Kings College, UK
PHILLIPS, Benjamin	Senior Research Officer, Central Team
RANSLEY, Janet	Co-Chief Investigator, Demonstration Project 2
REUTER, Peter	Technical Advisor
SHANAHAN, Marian	DPMP Associate Investigator, Senior Lecturer & Health Economist, Central Team
SUNDERLAND, Matthew	Research Associate, Central Team
VUONG, Thu	PhD Student, Central Team
WEBSTER, Julianne	PhD Student, located at Griffith University

Visiting Scholars

BEHRENS, Doris	Visiting Scholar (July - August 2007)
MCDONALD, Craig	Visiting Scholar (2008)
ZEILER, Irmgard	Visiting Scholar (July 2008-October 2008)

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Professor Alison Ritter

BA (Hons), MA (Clin Psych), MAPS, PhD
Director, DPMP
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
NHMRC Career Development Award
Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network
The Australian National University

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0236
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: alison.ritter@unsw.edu.au

Alison Ritter, Director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program, is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre , with adjunct appointments with the Regulatory Institutions Network, The Australian National University and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University. After completing her Masters in Clinical Psychology, she worked full-time as a clinical psychologist. During this time, she commenced her PhD in treatment outcomes associated with acquired brain injury. A subsequent move to a policy position with the Victorian Department of Human Services led to a secondment to establish the Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre on behalf of Government in 1994. As Deputy Director of Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre from 1995 to 2005, Alison completed numerous clinical research projects, including trials of new medications for the treatment of heroin dependence and managed epidemiological, health services research and evaluation. With an NHMRC Research Fellowship and a significant philanthropic grant, Alison is currently director of a major illicit drug policy research program, the Drug Policy Modelling Program in collaboration with scholars from The ANU, Burnet Institute, Griffith University and The University of Queensland. The goal of the work is to advance illicit drug policy through improving the evidence-base, developing new policy decision-making tools and understanding the best mix of policy options (law enforcement, prevention, treatment and harm reduction) and the ways in which these different policy options dynamically interact.

Associate Professor Hal Colebatch

BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Public Health and Community Medicine
University of New South Wales

Email: hal@colebatch.com

Hal K. Colebatch is a political scientist whose field of interest is the architecture of public authority – that is, the forms and practices through which areas of collective concern are governed. He draws on analytical approaches from political science, public administration and organizational analysis to focus on the way that policy is used to shape thinking and practice in the managing of public concerns. His current research is concerned with policy as an area of specialist practice, the way that people learn to do ‘policy work’, and with the relationship between ‘policy professionals’ and other professionals (such as health professionals). He has taught and researched policy and administration in East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and came to the University of New South to set up the Graduate Program in Social Science and Policy. He has edited a number of books on policy work, including Working for Policy (Amsterdam University Press, 2010), and his book Policy (Open University Press, 3rd ed. 2009) has been translated into four languages. He is the Chair of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on Public Policy and Administration.

Professor Paul Dietze

BSc (Hons), PhD, Registered Psychologist
VicHealth Public Health Research Fellow
Burnet Institute &
Monash Institute of Health Services Research

Tel: +61 (3) 9282 2134
Fax: +61 (3) 9282 2138
Email: pauld@burnet.edu.au
http://www.burnet.edu.au
http://www.mihsr.monash.org/

Professor Paul Dietze is an epidemiologist working in the field of alcohol and other drugs. He has established new surveillance systems as well as conducted specific research projects that break new ground in the epidemiology of heroin overdose in particular. He has been involved in numerous reference groups and given numerous public presentations, lectures and seminars around alcohol and other drug use and related harms. He has also supervised a range of students from honours to PhD levels. Professor Dietze has been involved in the development and implementation of a variety of heroin overdose prevention initiatives including the Direct Response to Overdose (DROP) project. He currently co-convenes the Victorian Injecting Drug Harm Reduction Network with the Victorian Department of Human Services through which research findings on injecting drug use are disseminated to the alcohol and drug field. These activities culminated in Professor Dietze being awarded a Victoria Fellowship in 1999 to conduct a study tour of heroin overdose prevention initiatives in Europe. In 2001 Professor Dietze was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Lionel Murphy Foundation and he was subsequently made Secretary and Treasurer in 2006. He is also a reviewer of articles submitted for publication in Addiction, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Urban Health, Drug and Alcohol Review, the Australian Journal of Psychology and Law and Human Behaviour as well as grant applications submitted to the NH&MRC and Healthway. He has also made numerous radio and TV appearances. In 2001 Professor Dietze was awarded a VicHealth Public Health Research Fellowship and in 2005 he was awarded a NH&MRC Career Development Award.

Professor Simon Lenton

BPsych, MA (Clin Psych), PhD
Deputy Director and Project Leader
National Drug Research Institute
Curtin University

Tel: +61 (8) 9266 1603
Fax: +61 (3) 9266 1611
Email: s.lenton@curtin.edu.au
http://ndri.curtin.edu.au/

Simon Lenton is one of two Deputy Directors at the National Drug Research Institute, where he has worked since 1993. In addition, he works part time as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice. Simon previously worked for the WA Alcohol and Drug Authority for 7 years, as a clinical psychologist and manager. His research interests include bridging the gap between drug policy research and drug policy practice, illicit drug use and harm reduction, impact of legislative options for drugs, and drink and drug driving. His current research program includes an evaluation of the Western Australian Cannabis Infringement Notice (CIN) scheme. He has published widely on drugs, health and the law and provided advice to a range of government and private organisations, both in Australia and internationally, on evidence based drug policy and other drug issues. His publications have appeared in journals such as Drug and Alcohol Review, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, The Journal of Drug Issues, Medical Journal of Australia, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Addiction, Contemporary Drug Problems, The International Journal of Drug Policy and Australian Pharmacist. He is a deputy editor of Drug and Alcohol Review and edits the 'Harm Reduction Digest' that appears in that journal.

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle

BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Chair in Criminology, Institute for Social Science Research
Foundation Director & Chief Investigator,
Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS)

Tel: +61 (7) 3346 7877
Email: l.mazerolle@uq.edu.au

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle is a Chair in Criminology at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Queensland and the Foundation Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS). She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1993 and spent an additional seven years as an academic in the USA (at Northeastern University and the University of Cincinnati). She is the recipient of numerous US and Australian national competitive research grants on topics such as problem-oriented policing, police technologies (e.g crime mapping, gunshot detection systems, 3-1-1 call systems), community crime control, civil remedies, street-level drug enforcement and policing public housing sites. In 2003, Professor Mazerolle was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminologists and now serves as the Vice President of the Academy. She also serves on the Board of Studies for the Australian Institute for Police Management, on the Capital Cities Lord Mayors Drug Advisory Board and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. Professor Mazerolle is the lead author (with Janet Ransley) of Third Party Policing (Cambridge University Press), sole author of Policing Places with Drug Problems (Sage Publications) and a co-editor, with Jan Roehl, of Civil Remedies and Crime Prevention (Criminal Justice Press). She has written many scholarly articles on policing, drug law enforcement, displacement of crime, and crime prevention.

Professor Pascal Perez

Dipl�me d'Agronomie Approfondie, Dipl�me d'Agronomie Tropicale, PhD (Advanced Agronomy)
Professor of Modelling and Simulation
SMART Infrastructure Facility
University of Wollongong

Tel: +61 (2) 4252 8238
Email: pascal_perez@uow.edu.au
http://smart.uow.edu.au
http://www.hemaconsulting.com.au/

Before joining the SMART Infrastructure Facility, (Prof) Pascal Perez was Senior Researcher at CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research and Associated Professor (adjunct) at the College of Asia & Pacific, the Australian National University. He is a specialist of Integrative Social Simulation, using Multi-Agent Systems technologies to explore complex and adaptive systems. He is the founder of the Human Ecosystems Modelling with Agents International Network (HEMA). In 2003, he received an ARC-International Linkage Fellowship to work on groundwater management in the Pacific with Prof Ian White. In recent years, he has led integrated modelling teams for the Coral Reef Targeted Research Project (2005-2010, World Bank) and the Drug Policy Modelling Program (2005-2010, Colonial Bank Foundation).

Professor Robin Room

BA, MA English, MA Sociology, PhD
Director, AER Centre for Alcohol Policy Research
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre

Professor, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Professor, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol & Drugs, Stockholm University

Tel: +61 (3) 8413 8430
Email: robinr@turningpoint.org.au
Website: http://www.turningpoint.org.au/

Professor Room was a researcher at the National Alcohol Research Centre (Berkeley, California) from 1963 to 1991, and the Scientific Director from 1977 to 1991. He was Vice-President for Research at the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, Canada, from 1991 to 1998. In 1999 Professor Room was appointed professor and founding director of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University. In March, 2006, he moved to his current positions in Melbourne. He is a longtime advisor for the World Health Organisation since 1975, and is Editor-in Chief of Drug and Alcohol Review.
Professor Room’s research is on social, cultural and epidemiological studies of alcohol, drugs and gambling behaviour and problems, and studies of social responses to alcohol and drug problems and of the effects of policy changes. Recent books on which he is a co-author include Cannabis Policy: Moving beyond Stalemate; Drug Policy and the Public Good, and the 2nd edition of Alcohol – No Ordinary Commodity, all published by Oxford UP. He has received awards for scientific contributions in the U.S., Sweden and Australia, and the premier international award in alcohol studies, the Jellinek Memorial Award for Alcohol Studies.

Dr David Bright

BSc (Psych) (Hons), MPsych (Forensic) (Hons), PhD, MAPS
Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 2 9385 8919
Email: david.bright@unsw.edu.au

David Bright is an Associate Investigator of the Drug Policy Modelling Program. David completed a Masters degree in Forensic Psychology in 2002 and a PhD in 2008. His doctoral thesis, which examined the influence of gruesome evidence on juror emotion and decision making, was awarded the 2007 Maconochie Prize by the APS College of Forensic Psychologists. David has worked as a psychologist in a range of clinical and clinical-forensic settings including community mental health, police, and corrective services. From 2003 to 2008 he was Therapeutic Manager of the NSW custody-based intensive treatment program for sexual offenders (CUBIT).

Professor Jonathan Caulkins

BS, MS, SM, PhD
Professor of Operations Research & Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar &
Heinz School of Public Policy

Tel: +97 (4) 492 8977
Fax: +97 (4) 492 8255
Email: caulkins@cmu.edu
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/
http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/

Jonathan P. Caulkins, is Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Qatar campus in Doha and its Heinz School of Public Policy. Professor Caulkins specializes in mathematical modeling and systems analysis of social policy problems with a particular focus on issues pertaining to drugs, crime, violence, and prevention – work that won the David Kershaw Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Other interests include optimal control, software quality, airline operations, and personnel performance evaluation. Professor Caulkins has published a number of monographs through RAND and over 70 journal articles in Operations Research, Management Science, JASA, JPAM, The American Journal of Public Health, Mathematical Biosciences, The Journal or Urban Economics, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, among other outlets. At RAND he has been a consultant, visiting scientist, co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center (1994 – 1996), and founding director of RAND’s Pittsburgh office (1999-2001).

Professor Caulkins received a B.S., and M.S. in Systems Science from Washington University, an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Ph.D., in Operations Research both from M.I.T.

Dr Jenny Chalmers

BEc (Hons), MEc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0189
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: jenny.chalmers@unsw.edu.au

Jenny Chalmers is a Senior Research Fellow in the Drug Policy Modelling Program, at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Current research projects include the ARC funded project 'Drunk, high or sober: How do alcohol and illicit drug prices affect young Australians' plans for Saturday night' and a study of the implications of the GFC for drug and alcohol use in Australia. Together with John Murphy, Suellen Murray, Sonia Martin and Greg Marston she recently published 'Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia' (Allen and Unwin). As well as drug policy, particularly the interface between markets and consumer behaviour, her research interests include social policy, labour market disadvantage and work-care balance. Jenny has previously worked with the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW and the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University.

Dr Jacqueline Drew

PhD
Lecturer
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University

Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5957
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 5608
Email: j.drew@griffith.edu.au

Jacqueline Drew is a Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. She is trained as a psychologist and received her PhD in Organisational Psychology from Griffith University in 2003. Dr Drew worked with the Queensland Police Service from 1996 to 2006 in the Human Resource Management Branch and as a Police Facilitator at the Queensland Police Service Academy. Her research interests include attraction and retention of police personnel; performance management within police organisations; and organisational structure and systems as they relate to innovative police strategies and operational practice.

Florence Gray-Weale

BSc (Psychology), BSocSci (Psychology) (Honours)
Research Assistant
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0105
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: f.gray-weale@unsw.edu.au

Florence Gray-Weale is a Research Assistant in the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. She is currently working on a project looking to evaluate the system of drug diversion programs in the ACT.

Florence is currently studying a combined PhD/Masters of Psychology (Forensic) degree at the University of New South Wales. Her interests include effective treatment interventions, diversion programs, public attitudes towards the criminal justice system and harm reduction strategies.

Professor Margaret Hamilton

BA, DipSocStuds, MSW
School of Population Health
University of Melbourne

Tel: +61 (3) 8601 5223
Fax: +61 (3) 8601 5224
Email: hamilton@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Margaret Hamilton has spent thirty five years in alcohol & other drug sector working in clinical work, education, research, policy development and advice. She began her career at St. Vincent’s Hospital, working in the ‘Special Clinic’ (Alcoholism Clinic), and in 1973 published her first research publication. From there, Professor Margaret Hamilton has been involved in research into epidemiology, policy, evaluation, alcohol problems in remote Australia, evaluation of therapeutic communities and self-help. She has produced numerous publications including articles, research monographs, reports and text book now in its second edition - Hamilton, M., King, T. and Ritter, M. (2003). Drug Use in Australia: Preventing Harm. Oxford University Press, Australia. Professor Margaret Hamilton has contributed to many committees including as Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committees over a total of seven years (University of Melbourne Social and Behavioural Science; Royal Women’s Hospital); Editorial Committee Drug & Alcohol Review; Reviewer of International Alcohol/Drug Research Centres in Ireland and New Zealand. NH&MRC National Illicit Drug Strategy Working Committee and Panel member (Public Health). Professor Margaret Hamilton was the initiator of the Drug Policy Modeling Program and is now Chair of the Advisory Group of DPMP.

Professor Margaret Hamilton was the Foundation Director of Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and then went on to take up a position as Chair of the Multiple and Complex Needs Panel, Victoria. She has been involved in extensive policy advice including the first evaluation National Campaign Against Drug Abuse 1986 and program development bodies including Chair of National Alcohol Campaign Reference Group. Professor Margaret Hamilton is currently serving a third term as an Executive member of the Australian National Council on Drugs and in this capacity also Chair National Illicit Drug Campaign Reference Group; Chair Project Reference Group (responsible for commissioning research) and Chair of the Editorial Reference Group for ‘Of Substance’. She had been Co-Deputy Chair of the ANCD from 2005 (ongoing) and Member of the Victorian Premier’s Drug Prevention Council.

Dr Caitlin Hughes

BA (Hons), BSc, PhD
Research Fellow
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0132
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: caitlin.hughes@unsw.edu.au

Dr Hughes is a criminologist and research fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.�She�works as part of the multi-disciplinary Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) which seeks to improve Australian drug policy by identifying what works, translating research evidence and engaging directly with policy makers.�Dr Hughes'�prime focus is�improving understanding of the effects of different legislative regimes and law enforcement approaches, and the role of law enforcement relative to other aspects of drug policy.

Projects include: the impacts of the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drug use; mapping out police and criminal justice diversionary policies throughout Australia; identifying optimum policing responses for responding to MDMA and determining legal thresholds for serious drug trafficking offences. Projects have often been undertaken in collaboration with Australian policy makers, including Queensland Health and Police, NSW Police and the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety, or international organisations, including the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Other interests include the impact of� media on public policy and public attitudes.

Kari Lancaster

BA, LLB (Hons), MPP
Research Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0476
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: k.lancaster@unsw.edu.au

Kari Lancaster is a Research Officer at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC).� She works as part of the multi-disciplinary Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) which seeks to improve Australian drug policy by identifying what works, translating research evdience and engaging directly with policy makers. Since joining the Drug Policy Modelling Program in 2009, Kari has undertaken research investigating policy processes and media reporting on illicit drugs.

Projects past and present include: Media reporting on illicit drugs in Australia - trends and impacts on youth attitudes to illicit drug use; An assessment of illicit drug policy in Australia (1985 to 2010) - themes and trends; The 'ice epidemic' - an analysis of the policy context, process and outcomes; IDRS/EDRS policy influence assessment; Media analysis of alcohol and other drug policy; The conservative shift in drug policy? evidence and implications; Public opinion and drug policy - engaging the 'affected community'.

Research interests include: media, public opinion, policy, law and political theory.

Matthew Manning

BCom (Econ), MA (Hons), PhD
Economist
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
Griffith University

Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5617
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 5608
Email: m.manning@griffith.edu.au

Matthew Manning is an economist in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University, Brisbane. Matthew is currently the Project Manager of the Griffith University DPMP projects: Demo Project 1 - Measuring the impact of the Liquor Enforcement Proactive Strategies (LEAPS) project; and Demo 2 - Measuring the impact of a drug law enforcement, namely Project Stop, with respect to its impact on suppressing the supply of amphetamines across Queensland and Victoria. Matthew’s recent research also involved the development of an economic methodology for measuring utility values from outcomes associated with early-in-life interventions across the life course, and the development of an economic model for analysing complex multiple criteria problems. Prior to this, Matthew worked on a number of projects employing economic analysis methodologies. Most notable, was his work on the Pathways to Prevention project. This involved the development of a methodology for conducting cost analysis, cost-comparison analysis, cost-savings analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis of community-based early childhood developmental intervention projects. Outcomes of this research were significant and resulted in a series of both published papers and major government reports. Matthew’s interests in applied microeconomics, decision analysis, operations research, health economics, and economic analysis techniques (e.g. cost-benefit analysis) has provided cross-disciplinary links with researchers and academics in the areas of criminology, psychology, special education, and operations research.

Dr Francis Matthew-Simmons

BA, BPPM (Hons), PhD
Research Assistant
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0188
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: francis.simmons@unsw.edu.au

Francis Matthew-Simmons is a Research Assistant based at NDARC. In 2006 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and a Bachelor of Public Policy and Management (Hons) degree at the University of Melbourne. His honours thesis focused on the accuracy of newspaper coverage of ecstasy use in Australia.

In 2011 he was awarded his PhD (Public Health and Community Medicine). His PhD thesis focused on public opinion towards illicit drug policy in Australia. The thesis examined trends in public opinion on a range of issues, including public support for drug law reform and attitudes towards drug treatment and harm reduction interventions. The thesis also examined the relationship between cannabis policy and public opinion, as well as the influence of the news media on attitudes towards treatment for opioid dependence.

Apart from public opinion, his other research interests include illicit drug markets, the public policy process, and news media reporting on illicit drug issues.

David McDonald

BA, DipSocWk, MA, GradDip PoplnHealth
Director, Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd, Wamboin, NSW
Visiting Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment
The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT

Tel: +61 (2) 6238 3706
Fax: +61 (2) 9475 4274
Email: david.mcdonald@socialresearch.com.au
http://www.socialresearch.com.au

David McDonald is currently the researcher on the AIVL/DPMP 'Track Marks' project, investigating the meaningful engagement of people who use illicit drugs, and drug user organisations, in policy activity. He is also supporting other DPMP activities. He is a co-author (with Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane) of the DPMP- Land & Water Australia- supported study that has culminated with the recent publication by ANU E Press of the book Research Integration Using Dialogue Methods. In Stage 1 of DPMP he undertook research into mapping Australian drug policy structures and process (with Bammer and Breen), as well as developing taxonomies of illicit drugs interventions (with Ritter). He is a social scientist with research interests in domains where public health and criminology/criminal justice intersect, particularly alcohol, tobacco and other drugs policy, research integration and building evidence-based public policy. He has wide experience in research, policy and program development and evaluation in the alcohol and other drugs, criminal justice and related fields. He is a consultant, a Visiting Fellow at ANU and an Associate of the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Ingrid McGuffog

MSoc Sc
Senior Research Associate
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane QLD

Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5833
Email: i.mcguffog@griffith.edu.au

Ingrid completed a Master of Social Science degree in 1994. She spent a number of years in private consulting undertaking research design and analysis, and program evaluation. In addition she has researched and published in the field of public health. She currently works as a Senior Research Associate for Professor Lorraine Mazerolle at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Brisbane's Griffith University. Her research interests include: the social ecology of crime, drug policy, inequality and crime, and research methods.

Tim McSweeney

BSc (Hons)
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Criminal Policy Research
Birkbeck, University of London
42 Store Street London WC1E 7DB

Tel: +44 (0) 792 075 4133
Email: t.mcsweeney@bbk.ac.uk
Web: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/research/icpr

Tim McSweeney is a PhD candidate under scholarship with both DPMP and UNSW. His thesis involves using comparative case studies to critically assess the extent to which Australian and English approaches to the diversion of drug misusing defendants promotes engagement and compliance with drug treatment, ‘recovery’ from dependent patterns of drug misuse and ‘desistance’ from related crime”.

Tim has ten years' experience of conducting and managing social science research with local, national and international dimensions using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. His research activities to date have focused on substance misuse, its treatment and the role played by criminal justice interventions in tackling these and related issues. He has served as an advisor on ‘coerced’ drug treatment options to both the Council of Europe and UN Office on Drugs and Crime. He is also a regular contributor to the MA Criminology and Criminal Justice course at King’s College London.

Benjamin Phillips

BSocSc (Hons), MIPH
Senior Research Officer
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0264
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: b.phillips@unsw.edu.au

Benjamin is a Senior Research Officer at DPMP. Since graduating from university, Benjamin has rigorously pursued a career in global public health with a specific focus on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for people who inject drugs. Over the last 5 years he has co-authored articles for The Lancet and the International Journal of Drug Policy, completed a Masters degree in International Public Health, authored several technical reports and conference papers and been part of the Secretariat to United Nations Reference Group on HIV and injecting drug use. Benjamin's interests include harm reduction in resource-poor, culturally and linguistically diverse environments and closed settings, rights-based responses to HIV and drug use. Benjamin also has an interest in international drug policy, chronic pain and the extra-medical use of pharmaceutical opioids.

Dr Janet Ransley

PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Griffith University
Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD

Tel: +61 (7) 3735 5612
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 5608
Email: j.ransley@griffith.edu.au

Janet Ransley is a senior lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and a researcher within both the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance. She was a practising lawyer for 10 years and then worked in policy-making before receiving her PhD in law and public policy from Griffith University in 2001. Her main research interests are in criminal justice policy making, investigating corruption, and innovative policing strategies, and some of her publications in these areas include co-authoring (with Lorraine Mazerolle) Third Party Policing (Cambridge University Press) and co-editing (with Tim Prenzler) Police Reform: Building Integrity (Hawkins Press). Within DPMP, Dr Ransley acts as Co-Chief Investigator on Demonstration 2: Reducing the Methamphetamine Problem in Australia which seeks to evaluate innovative partnerships between police, pharmacies and other third parties.

Professor Peter Reuter

BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD
School of Public Policy
Department of Criminology
University of Maryland, USA

Tel: +1 301 405 6367
Email: preuter@umd.edu

Peter Reuter is Professor in the School of Public Policy and in the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland. He is Director of the Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy at the University and also Senior Economist at RAND.

He founded and directed RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center from 1989-1993; the Center is a multi-disciplinary research program begun in 1989 with funding from a number of foundations. His early research focused on the organization of illegal markets and resulted in the publication of Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand (MIT Press, 1983), which won the Leslie Wilkins award as most outstanding book of the year in criminology and criminal justice. Since 1985 most of his research has dealt with alternative approaches to controlling drug problems, both in the United States and Western Europe. He is co-author (with Letizia Paoli and Victorial Greenfield) of a new book from Oxford University Press: The World Heroin Market: Can Supply be Cut? His other books are (with Robert MacCoun) Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Places, Times and Vices (Cambridge University Press, 2001 and (with Edwin Truman) Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering (Institute for International Economics, 2004). From 1999 to 2004 he was editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. In 2007 he was elected the first president of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy.

He has been an advisor to the Drug Policy Modeling Program since it began. Recently he has been working with Jonathan Caulkins on a fuller examination of the 2001 heroin drought in Australia, using a number of price and purity data sets that have not been incorporated in prior analyses.

Dr Marian Shanahan

BA (Hons), MA (Econ), PhD
Senior Lecturer
Health Economist
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0229
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: m.shanahan@unsw.edu.au

Dr Shanahan has recently completed her PhD project examining the costs and benefits of various cannabis policies. This work involved the completion of a substantial cost benefit analysis and included a contingent valuation study and a discrete choice experiment.� This is a world first study. Dr Shanahan is an experienced health economist who has applied health economics principles to a diverse range of disease and structural issues in the health sector. This includes analysing large linked data sets, assessing hospital efficiency and the introduction of new technologies.� She has previously evaluated the economic costs of treatment and health services utilisation by a cohort study of heroin users and has been involved in evaluations of a number of pharmacotherapies and other treatments for illicit drug and alcohol misuse.� In addition she has been involved in economic evaluations of care for those with high risk antenatal problems as well as projects in the field of IVF.��

Dr Shanahan is currently a member of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) team. Current interests include assessing the costs and benefits of policies for heroin, cannabis and other illicit drugs; using discrete choice experiments to explore societal preferences for drugs policies; assessing the use of contingency management to assess the uptake of hepatitis vaccinations but IDU, and assessing treatments for drug use in prison.

Dr Matthew Sunderland

BPsych (Hons), PhD
Research Associate
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0106
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: matthews@unsw.edu.au

Matthew Sunderland was recently employed as a Research Associate working with the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Previously Matthew has worked at the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression, School of Psychiatry, investigating diagnostic issues in the mood and anxiety disorders. Broad research interests include the application of novel statistical techniques (latent variables analyses) to investigate issues with classification and diagnostic assessment in the general population, the epidemiology of the internalizing and externalizing disorders, and applied statistics and drug and alcohol policy. Current research projects include: the analysis of drug and alcohol consumption across varying prices during a hypothetical Saturday night (ARC funded project ‘Drunk, high, or sober: How do alcohol and illicit drug prices affect young Australians’ plans for Saturday Night’), and the analysis of trends in public opinion on alcohol and illicit drugs across multiple waves of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey.”

Thu Vuong

BA, MPH
PhD Student
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales

Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0246
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222
Email: thu.vuong@unsw.edu.au

Mrs. Vuong Thi Huong Thu has a Master Degree in Public Health, concentrated on health services management and policy from the Ohio State University in the USA in 2006 on a Fulbright scholarship. From February 2012, with a scholarship from Endeavour Award and National Drugs and Alcohol Research Center of Australia (NDARC), she pursues her PhD on drug policy research focusing on economic evaluation of compulsory centers for drug users of Vietnam compared to community-based Methadone maintenance treatment.

Professionally,Thu has had 18 years of experience in public health work in the areas of HIV and drug policy. She has spent most of her career working for the FHI 360 in Vietnam. She is a key facilitators of dialogue between the international community and the Government of Vietnam to achieve a consensus of the most feasible ways of improving the drug policy in Vietnam, including a roadmap to shift Government funding for the compulsory drug treatment approach towards evidence-based policy and programs for effective drug treatment. Her professional career includes writing for the International Journal of Drug Policy and a considerable career in freelance writing. Her professional efforts have been recognized by the National Assembly of Vietnam and the International Federation of Non-Government Organizations (IFNGO).

Julianne Webster

BA, MA
PhD Student
Key Centre for Ethics, Justice, Law and Governance
Griffith University

Tel: +61 (7) 3735 1040
Fax: +61 (7) 3735 6985
Email: j.webster@griffith.edu.au

Julianne Webster has experience in criminal justice statistics and research. She worked for the Queensland Office of Economic and Statistical Research (OESR) and the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) for a combined 12 years. Julianne graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2000 with a Masters Degree and has commenced PhD studies in November 2007 with the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University.

Assistant Professor Doris Behrens

MS, PhD
Institute of Economics
Klagenfurt University, Austria
Research Unit for OR and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems (ORDYS)
Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Tel: +43 (463) 2700 4123
Fax: +43 (463) 2700 4148
Email: doris.behrens@uni-klu.ac.at
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/vwl/
http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/research/EoC/

Doris Behrens is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Klagenfurt University, Austria. Doris specializes in mathematical modeling and systems analysis of (socio- and bio-)economic, ecological and epidemiologic problems. A significant subgroup of her publications in refereed journal articles focuses on issues pertaining to drugs, health, addiction, and prevention. Methodologically, her main interests lie in analytical and numerical optimization (including optimal control theory and dynamic games) and the theory of nonlinear dynamic systems. Doris received a MS in Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Operations Research both from the Vienna University of Technology."

Associate Professor Craig McDonald

BA, MScSoc, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor of Information Systems
School of Information Sciences and Engineering
University of Canberra

Tel: +61 (2) 6201 5285
Email: craig.mcdonald@canberra.edu.au
http://www.canberra.edu.au/schools/ise/research

Associate Professor Craig McDonald is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Canberra. For nearly four decades he has been developing, teaching, researching and consulting in systems that embody data, information and knowledge. These systems have been effective in the public service, NGOs, private enterprise and in research organisations. His continuing work is in the foundations of the informatics field (especially semantics, modelling and ontologies, and information ethics) and in the applications of informatics to the domains of government, health, education and research.

Programs for research in 2007 include a semantic analysis of drug intervention policies to reveal the conceptual structure of the illicit drug system (e-Health), the incorporation of ethics into project management teaching (e-Education), the nature of board-level information systems (e-Government), the human aspects of e-Research and, from a theoretical perspective, an investigation of 'virtuality' and an approach to concept analysis.

Irmgard Zeiler

MS, PhD
Research Unit for OR and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems (ORDYS)
Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Tel: +43 (1) 58801 11929
Email: zeiler@eos.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/

Irmgard Zeiler is a research fellow at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria with a specialization in Operations Research and in the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. Her research interests are in the application of optimal dynamic control in mathematical models of socio-economic and epidemiological problems. In particular, in her PhD thesis she focused on behaviour and behavioral change in epidemiological models of HIV/AIDS and illicit drug use.

Irmgard holds a MS in Applied Mathematics and PhD in Operations Research both from the Vienna University of Technology. She did postdoctoral studies with Professor Jonathan P. Caulkins at the Heinz School of Public Policy & Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and Doha, Qatar. At DPMP she is working on a model that investigates the dynamics of Hepatitis C infections and treatment in a population of injecting drug users.

Colleen Faes BSc (Psych) Administrative Officer and EA to Alison Ritter National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre University of New South Wales Tel: +61 (2) 9385 0186 Fax: +61 (2) 9385 0222 Email: colleen.faes@unsw.edu.au
Colleen is an Administrative Officer and Executive Assistant at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Davidson College in 2004 and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Technology, Sydney.