Deputy CEO at the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA)

Anke van der Sterren is the Deputy CEO at the Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA). Anke is a social scientist with over 25 years’ experience in research and evaluation in the areas of alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, blood borne viruses and workforce development. Anke has worked as a public health researcher in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled, university, and non-government sectors. Anke is in the 2020 cohort of the Future Health Leaders Program at UNSW and is undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Applied Public Health. Her DrPH project focuses on identifying and exploring the key domains of service user experiences that are most important to people accessing AOD services, and using these to codesign a service-user centred experience measure that reflects the perspectives and needs of multiple stakeholders—service users, service providers, policy makers/funders and researchers.