Annalee Stearne

Annalee Stearne, a Nyungar from WA, has been working in the National Drug Research Institute’s Indigenous Australian Research Program since 2001. She has been involved in numerous evaluations of First Nations substance use interventions in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. Between September 2005 and November 2008, while located in Alice Springs she worked closely with Tangentyere Council’s Research Hub. In 2006, she was a member of the research team that won the National Drug and Alcohol Award for Excellence in Research, and a Curtin University Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence. Currently she sits on the board of NCCRED. She was awarded the 2012 First People’s Award for Excellence in Science and Research, by the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD).

In February 2019, she returned to NDRI to commence PhD research examining Aboriginal community-led responses to alcohol-related harms in the Northern Territory, through the University of Sydney's Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Health and Alcohol.