
BHSci(Hons), MPH
Ria Hopkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Her interests include pharmacoepidemiology, public health, and healthcare policy. Her current work includes projects aimed at identifying outcomes and health service utilisation among people with chronic non-cancer pain, and those prescribed opioid analgesics. She is particularly interested in the impact of opioid prescribing regulations and increased attention on opioid-related harms on people living with chronic pain.