Katinka van de Ven
HEDN DIRECTOR
360Edge and Hello Sunday Morning, Australia
human enhancement drugs, steroids, education, drug use and supply, drugs policy, public health
Dr Katinka van de Ven is an internationally recognised expert in alcohol and other drugs, with a distinctive focus on performance and image enhancing drug use, program evaluation, harm reduction and drug policy. She is currently a Principal Consultant at 360Edge and the Research Manager at Hello Sunday Morning. She also serves as a Research Advisor to SMART Recovery Australia and a Visiting Fellow at the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP), University of New South Wales.
Katinka is the Founder and Director of the Human Enhancement Drugs Network and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Performance Enhancement & Health, where she has led the journal to Q1 status and helped establish its inaugural impact factor. She brings over a decade of experience working across academic, clinical, policy and community sectors—partnering with government departments, anti-doping bodies, health networks, and lived experience organisations.
Her research spans diverse areas including harm reduction, drug treatment systems, workforce and procurement models, consumer-centred care, and outcome measurement. She is particularly passionate about improving services for people who use non-medical anabolic-androgenic steroids and other enhancement substances. A key output of this work is the widely endorsed GP Guide to harm minimisation for PIED use, supported by the NSW Ministry of Health.
Katinka holds a PhD in Criminology and has published extensively across leading journals and media platforms. Her work is driven by a commitment to evidence based practice, health equity and capacity building within the alcohol and other drugs sector.