Dr. Ankita Mukherjee is Qualitative Researcher at The George Institute. She uses qualitative methods to evaluate interventions and improve intervention design. She works across multiple mental health projects including the SMART Mental Health and ARTEMIS cluster RCT, INDIGO and ANUMATI. In her work, she regularly interacts with communities, service providers and other stakeholders to understand their perspectives on projects and their implementation.

Ankita is interested in using community engagement to develop mental health interventions. Her other interest is in using health policy and systems research to improve access to quality mental health care. She has an M.Phil and PhD in Social Medicine and Community Health.

Dr Menglu Ouyang is a research fellow at The George Insititute for Global Health and Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW. Her research field is in stroke, including acute care, clinical management, health system and implementation science. She has extensive experience in secondary analysis in large international clinical trials and implementation research. Her research contributes to filling the knowledge gap in stroke clinical guidelines development, informs implementation strategies and supports promoting the care embedded in existing processes in low- and middle-income countries.

She is the leading investigator for the process evaluation alongside the large international trials funded by MRC and NHMRC, to explore the feasibility, acceptability and implementation of evidence-based care. She also chairs the monthly Process Evaluation/Health System Research Seminar at The George Institute. She is in the UNSW Cardiac, Vascular, Metabolic Medicine Early Career Researcher Committee and the editor board of Cerebrovascular Diseases and Frontiers Public Health.

Prof. Mark Huffman, a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and Adjunct Professor at UNSW, is a globally recognized preventive cardiologist with over a decade of experience in cardiovascular dissemination and implementation research. He is a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Co-Director of the Global Health Center at Washington University in St. Louis and Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University.

He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology and was recognised as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine through the National Academy of Medicine. He is a standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation for Health and Health Care study section.

He co-created the World Heart Federation’s flagship Emerging Leaders program, which has trained >200 early-to-mid-career professionals from >50 countries in implementation research. Prof. Huffman has taught graduate-level courses, co-directed the NIH/Fogarty-funded global health fellows’ research training program, and mentored undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and early-stage investigator trainees in implementation research.