Stuart Kinner is Professor of Health Equity at Curtin University, an Honorary Professor at The University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Criminology Institute. For the past two decades Stuart’s research has focussed on health services and health outcomes for people who come into contact with the criminal justice system. 

Don Weatherburn is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and was formerly Executive Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Prior to that appointment, Professor Weatherburn was foundation Research Director at the Judicial Commission of New South Wales. He has published on a wide range of topics including sentencing, criminal justice administration, crime prevention, drug law enforcement, harm reduction and program evaluation.

Rachael Morton is Professor and Director of health economics and health technology assessment at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She specialises in trial-based and modelled economic evaluation, and elicitation of patient preferences using discrete choice experiments. Her research incorporates patient-centred and economic outcomes into clinical trials of diagnostic tests, new treatments and models of care to facilitate policy decision-making on the basis of cost-effectiveness.

Mr Grant was appointed to the role of Assistant Commissioner Inmate Management in 2000, with primary responsibility for prisoner rehabilitation in NSW. Moving to Assistant Commissioner Corrections Strategy and Policy in December 2012, he was appointed to his current role of Deputy Commissioner for Corrective Services NSW in 2020. Luke has overhauled the agency’s suite of rehabilitation programs, removing those with no evidentiary base and introducing new programs that are founded on evidence of what works in reducing re-offending and improving outcomes for those imprisoned.

Dr Alexeev is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. With a PhD in Economics from the University of Technology Sydney (obtained in 2020), he leads interdisciplinary projects to improve the field of Health Economics. As an experienced economist, econometrician, and trial methodologist, Dr Alexeev is well-versed in experimental and quasi-experimental empirical research methods. He is particularly interested in health and risky health behaviour.