Nadine Harker is employed as a Specialist Scientist in the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council. She is also Deputy Director: Substance Use Programme in the Unit.
She completed her PhD in 2013 at the University of Cape Town and is now Honorary Associate Professor at the UCT School of Public Health and Family Medicine. She has co-authored a book titled Alcohol, Drugs and Employment.
She is currently the national head of the South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use, a project that aims to provide community-level public health surveillance of drug use trends and associated consequences. Her specific interests are in epidemiology, improving the quality of substance abuse prevention services, treatment service quality monitoring and evaluating the performance and outcomes of such services, and designing and implementing prevention services for the work sector.