Monica Barratt

Associate Professor Monica Barratt is a drug policy scholar at RMIT University. Her work aims to make unregulated drugs safer through policy reforms and on-ground responses. Monica has published over 130 academic research papers and attracted over $6M competitive funding, including from the National Health and Medical Research Council, most recent being awarded a competitive Investigator Grant fellowship. She is the National Research Lead for The Loop Australia, a charity that delivers drug checking services in Queensland and Victoria.

Monica serves as an Editor for leading journals in the drugs field: International Journal of Drug Policy and Drug and Alcohol Review. Monica is the Executive Director of  Bluelight.org, a global drug harm reduction community recently celebrating 25 years, and serves on the board of directors for Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia. Monica has attended and contributed to EGA since the mid 2000s, and she continues to advocate for recognition of the benefits and pleasures of psychoactive substance use in context with known risks, many of which arise from prohibition regimes themselves.