Studying the 2024 NSW Drug Summit

The 2024 NSW Drug Summit represented a significant moment in drug policy engagement. This program of work studies activity that occurred in the lead up to the summit, processes and outcomes of the summit, and translated evidence for summit participants.

There are three streams of work:

1. Analysing agenda-setting by third sector organisations in the lead up to the summit to explore the impacts and influence of third sector actors relative to drug policy reform 2. Evaluating the processes, outputs, and outcomes of the summit 3. Translating the latest drug policy evidence into simple explainers on the Evidence Hub for the 2024 NSW Drug Summit.

This project draws on diverse qualitative methods including document analysis, individual and group interviews, and autoethnography to analyse the drug summit as a policymaking event and the processes before and at the summit to draw insights related to political process, influence, inclusion, representation, and drug policy reform.