Our Team
Gino Vumbaca – Convenor
Gino Vumbacais the President of Harm Reduction Australia and was involved in the establishment of Pill Testing Australia, he is also Principal of 3V Consulting Services. Mr Vumbaca has extensive experience in the HIV/ AIDS and drug and alcohol fields both in Australia and internationally. He is a Churchill Fellow, has completed a Social Work…
Steph Tzanetis – Executive Officer
Steph was appointed as Executive Officer for Pill Testing Australia in 2023. Steph is a member of the Pill Testing Australia consortium that worked on the 2018 and 2019 ACT trials and is a Peer Educator working at CanTEST. She has qualifications in health law, humanities, alcohol and other drugs and addictive behaviours. Steph is…
Erica Franklin – Project Officer
Erica is a dedicated advocate for harm reduction with extensive experience in drug education and community outreach. She holds a degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and completed an honours thesis focused on the consumption patterns of novel and emerging psychoactive substances. Erica has worked for the NSW Users and Aids Association, National Drug and…
Our Advisors
Annie Madden
Annie Madden is the Executive Director of Harm Reduction Australia, which is a part time role she holds alongside a part time role as a Project Lead with the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD). Annie has provided technical expertise to UNODC, WHO, UNAIDS and has been a member of Australian Government delegations…
Dr Jody Moller (Morgan)
Please welcome Dr Jody Moller (Morgan) who is an associate research fellow within the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health at the University of Wollongong. She has a Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry and obtained a PhD in organic and medicinal chemistry in 2003. Jody is a lab-based toxicology researcher whose research interests sit at the intersection…
David Caldicott
David Caldicott is an Irish Emergency Consultant, working in the Bush Capital of Australia. He holds conjoint academic positions with the University of Canberra, and the Australian National University. He’s been involved in the campaign to introduce pill testing in Australia since the early ‘00s, initially in South Australia, and more recently, and successfully, in…
Jennifer Schumann
Associate Professor Jennifer Schumann is Head of the Drug Intelligence Unit at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Monash University’s Department of Forensic Medicine. She is a forensic pharmacologist and toxicologist, with nearly two decades experience interpreting the involvement of alcohol and other drugs in death. In 2014, Jennifer was a visiting postdoctoral researcher…
Prof. Mal McLeod
Professor Mal McLeod is a teacher and researcher within the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and since then has worked continuously at Universities around Australia. Mal’s research interests include the development of new chemical and analytical methods…
Emeritus Professor Toni Makkai, AM
Toni Makkai is a non executive director of the Ted Noffs Foundation who provide drug and alcohol services for young people and a former director/CEO of the Australian Institute of Criminology. She has had a long involvement in research on drug and alcohol issues starting with the first National Household Survey on Drugs in 1985…
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