NCYSUR researchers have been active in communicating their research findings and expertise to enhance public understanding of drug policy issues.
NCYSUR media mentions
September 2025
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NCYSUR Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall was profiled by Scandinavian independent news agency Drug News in "Professor Wayne Hall: folkhälsan först [public health first]”, published 1 July.
ABC News Radio interviewed NCYSUR NHMRC EL Fellow Dr Carmen Lim in a live broadcast on 9 July for her expert response to the medicinal cannabis guidance issued by AHPRA. On the same day, Dr Lim published a call for the regulator to do more to curb aggressive marketing in an article for The Conversation.
Dr Lim and Emeritus Professor Hall had previously written for the Conversation on their review of 54 medicinal cannabis websites that discovered widespread breaches of TGA promotional guidelines. Emeritus Professor Hall was also interviewed by SBS News for “A script every five minutes: 'Red flags' amid Australia's medicinal cannabis rise” on 11 July.
Following the release of independent drug policy organisation the Penington Institute’s cannabis control plan on 16 July, Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall was interviewed by the ABC for the 7:30 Report segment: “Should recreational cannabis be legalised?”
NHMRC Fellow Associate Professor Janni Leung gave a live interview focusing on youth vaping on ABC Radio Brisbane after she was jointly awarded as Queensland’s 2024 Young Tall Poppy of the Year on 9 September.
Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall was quoted in the story “Illicit cigarettes pose a fundamental challenge to Australia's national tobacco strategy” in The Australian on 9 September.
Associate Professor Gary Chan was interviewed for ABC News Radio on the new clinic at the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth for gaming disorder, also published on the web on 11 September.
