Dr Michala Kowalski is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NDARC, UNSW. She was awarded her PhD in 2024, for her mixed-methods study of alcohol policy in New South Wales, which examined the role of evidence in policy, the leading problematisations in alcohol policy, and analysed overlooked effects of alcohol policies in New South Wales.

Michala’s current research program concentrates on alcohol policy, cannabis policy, evolving drug markets, and harm reduction. She is an active member of the Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium, and the Drug Policy Modelling Program Network, and co-convenor of the Safe(r) Supply Network in Australia.