Christina Marel joined NDARC in February 2011, and is currently working as a post-doctoral fellow coordinating the NHMRC funded Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS), a large longitudinal study of heroin dependence. Christina was also involved in the development of comorbidity booklets for mental health and substance use, which were disseminated Australia-wide in 2011. Christina completed her PhD in Criminology through the University of New South Wales in 2011, which examined the regulatory approaches to volatile substance misuse in the Alice Springs Town Camps, Northern Territory. Her other research interests include substance use disorders, psychiatric comorbidity, heroin dependence, links between drug use and crime as well as the regulation of licit and illicit substances.