Professor Wayne Hall
Director and Inaugural Chair
Biography
Wayne Hall is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research at the University of Queensland, a Professor at the National Addiction Centre, Kings College London, and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW. He was formerly: an NHMRC Australia Fellow at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (2009-2014); Professor of Public Health Policy, School of Population Health, UQ (2005-2009); Director of the Office of Public Policy and Ethics at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (2001-2005), UQ; and Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW (1994-2001). He has advised the World Health Organization on: the health effects of cannabis use; the contribution of illicit drug use to the global burden of disease; and the ethical implications of genetic and neuroscience research on addiction.