Mike Stephens is Director of Medicines Policy and Program at the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and a research affiliate of the Melbourne Institute’s Health Analytics, Leadership, and Economics (HALE) Hub at the University of Melbourne. Mike has 25 years’ experience working in a diverse range of roles in the health and medicines sector, both in Australia and overseas, including in community and hospital pharmacy, as a consultant pharmacist, and in education and intern assessment. Mike has spent the past decade working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector as a consultant, policy and program director and as a practising pharmacist integrated into an Aboriginal health service. Through his work at NACCHO, Mike has provided policy advice to all levels of government and has worked with a range of national agencies, advisory groups, boards and peak bodies to influence medicines policy to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.