Dr Ting Xia is a Research Fellow with Monash Addiction Research Centre at Monash University with a focus on the use of linked primary health data and hospital data to evaluate the impact of policy changes on opioid prescribing. She has a Bachelor of Preventive Medicine, a Master of Toxicology, and a PhD in Public Health. Prior to her PhD, Dr Xia worked as public health physician at the Nanjing Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China. After completing her PhD, she provides statistical and research expertise on a number of multi-disciplinary projects and supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students.