Dr Michael Curtis is a Research Fellow at the National Drug Research Institute, and a Senior Research Officer at the Burnet Institute, with a background in social work. His work combines longitudinal cohort studies and administrative record linkage to examine how policies, services, and structural factors such as housing, healthcare access, and drug treatment availability influence health, wellbeing, and criminal justice outcomes among priority populations. He has contributed to major studies investigating imprisonment, opioid agonist treatment, overdose, healthcare utilisation, and social exclusion, and his research has informed government inquiries, policy submissions, and service reforms in Australia.