Dr Anis Ta'eed is the Head of Nephrology at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji, and the Director of the Fiji National Kidney Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, having trained and worked in Melbourne, Australia for over 10 years. Anis' interests are in acute nephrology, nutrition and lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Ankita Mukherjee is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute. Ankita holds the DBT/Wellcome India Alliance Early Career Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health. Her fellowship project DAYARA aims to co-create a mental health promotion intervention for Scheduled Tribe communities in Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh.
Ankita also provides qualitative research support (process evaluation, formative evaluation) to several projects in the mental health programme, including SMART Mental Health and ARTEMIS, INDIGO and ANUMATI 2.0. In her work, she regularly interacts with communities, service providers and other stakeholders to understand their perspectives on projects and their implementation.
Her other interest is applying Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) to improve access to quality mental health care.
Ankita holds an M.Phil and PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Dr Anna Campain is a biostatistician with experience in health, medical and bioinformatics research.
She has worked extensively with routinely-collected health data, both linked and non-linked. Anna has a special interest in using routinely-collected health datasets to explore and understand health patterns in high-risk or vulnerable populations to inform treatments, approaches and behaviours. She is passionate about research that will be translated to end-user benefit through changes in clinical guidelines, health policy and resource management.
Joining The George Institute for Global Health in 2018, Anna brings over a decade of experience in applied statistics. As an applied statistician, Anna is passionate about using robust, appropriate and contemporary statistical methods to investigate clinically important research questions. Her experience to date has involved the application of advanced regression methods and machine learning techniques to chronic disease research, the use of accessible data visualisation methods to disseminate findings to a wide research audience, and regional, state and national health program evaluation and impact investigations.
Dr Anna Palagyi is a health systems scientist with expertise in co-design methodology and implementation studies with mixed-methods evaluation. She holds positions as Program Lead - Ageing & Health Systems in the Centre for Health Systems Science at The George Institute for Global Health and Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney.
Anna's research centres on the co-design of effective implementation strategies to strengthen primary health care services in resource-constrained settings of the Asia-Pacific region. She has a particular interest in the development of appropriate health system responses to population ageing: Anna previously implemented a national longitudinal study on aspects of healthy ageing in older Australians with cataract, and currently collaborates with governments, civil society organisations and academic institutions across several Pacific Island countries to identify national healthy ageing policy, program and service priorities.
Anna is committed to evidence-informed health policy and practice. She has a strong track record of partnering with government stakeholders in the design and implementation of policy-relevant research, has co-authored commissioned reports for government bodies and advocacy groups, and has produced policy briefs for government departments.
Anna is HR & Communications Coordinator for the UK team. She is responsible for HR matters within the UK team, as well as supporting global HR projects and internal communications.
Outside of work, Anna is a qualified life coach and is studying a Masters in Psychology (Conversion). Anna has a strong interest in mental health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Professor Anne Mills is Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Health Economics and Policy. She has degrees from Oxford University (MA), Leeds University (Diploma), and London University (PhD).
After two years as Overseas Development Institute Fellow and Economist in the Ministry of Health in Malawi, Professor Mills spent three years at the University of Leeds studying health planning in the NHS and moved to the LSHTM in 1979. She has researched and published widely in the fields of health economics and health systems in low- and middle-income countries and continues to be involved in research on financial protection in South Africa, Tanzania, India and Thailand. Professor Mills continues to be involved in supporting capacity development in health economics in universities, research institutes and governments.
She has been involved in numerous policy initiatives, including WHO's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and the 2009 High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Finance for Health Systems. Professor Mills has a CBE for services to medicine, is a Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2009, she received the Prince Mahidol Award in the field of medicine. In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 2015 she was made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours, for services to international health.
Anshuman is the Quality Assurance Officer with the CORE India. His role involves the implementation of Quality Assurance processes in collaboration with researchers. He completed MPH with a WHO-TDR fellowship in Implementation Science from BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, Dhaka and M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from Nalanda University, Rajgir, with a small grant from Bihar Government for Policy Research Work.
Before joining The George Institute, Anshuman has worked in Accenture, Cognizant, Icon Clinical Research, Community Empowerment Lab, Pragya NGO and Outline India. Some of the projects he has worked on were on person centred maternal care in health care facilities, evaluation of clinical quality improvement programs, translation of policies etc. His earlier roles also included clinical data management, capacity building, training management and supporting projects for documentation audits.
Anthony Sunjaya is a medical doctor from Indonesia and Honorary Fellow at the Respiratory and Health Systems Division, The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London and a Visiting Researcher at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.
His research focuses on cardiorespiratory diseases, complex chronic diseases, primary care, and digital health especially the development, validation and translation of decision support systems, AI, and virtual care. He has a special interest in supporting universal health coverage, improving care, especially in low-resource settings and primary care through the use of innovative evidence-based solutions.
He is Chief Investigator of the Breathlessness Rapid Evaluation and THErapy (BREATHE) trial funded by the Australian Government Medical Research Future Fund to optimise the assessment and management of chronic breathlessness in primary care through implementation of a clinical decision support system for breathlessness across 40 GP practices in Australia building upon work during his PhD which was supported by the UNSW Scientia PhD program.
He is currently Chair, Primary Care SIG, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ); Chair, Membership Committee, Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM); Vice-Chair of the Digital Transformation Leadership working group in the International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health (ISfTeH), and Editorial Advisory Board member of the Annals of Family Medicine. He is also an active social entrepreneur and co-founder of BantingMed, a diabetes digital health startup.
He was previously President of Postgraduate Council UNSW and ASEAN Society UNSW, a delegate to the 2023 Group of 7 Youth Summit in Japan and has contributed to reports for the World Health Organization and Asthma Australia.
Professor Rodgers has a track record in cardiovascular disease prevention, innovation and public-private partnerships, with an interest in scale-able interventions to address major risks to health. He is currently Acting Director of the Cardiovascular Division at The George Institute, Australia and Chair of Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of London.
After graduating in medicine in the United Kingdom he trained in epidemiology and public health in New Zealand. He was the Principal Author of the 2002 World Health Report, the main annual publication for WHO. Professor Rodgers has led developments of an affordable four-in-one cardiovascular combination pill ('polypill'). He led a clinical trial program in economically developed and developing countries, funded by the Wellcome Trust, European Union and others.
Professor Rodgers also developed a world first cell phone based smoking cessation programme for youth, which disseminated proven health support messages in an age-appropriate, affordable medium. Over 6,000 patients were involved in clinical trials that demonstrated a 50% increase in quit rates. The service has been rolled out by Departments of Health in NZ, UK and India, with over 2 million users to date. A follow-on program delivering cognitive behavioural therapy for depression prevention was successfully trialled among 1,200 at-risk teenagers.
Aritri Dutta works at the George Institute India as an Assistant Research Manager within research support services- CORE India. Her role encompasses monitoring various funding agencies and disseminating relevant funding calls to researchers. She supports Research Manager in coordinating with research teams, finance and administration to develop proposals for submission to regional and global funding organizations and also coordinates research team meetings, workshops and training programs.
After completing a PhD in Immunology and a short postdoc she joined DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance and worked as a research administrator for more than two years. She was briefly associated with the Research and Development wing of IIT Kanpur where she managed the fund and research portfolio before joining The Institute. Aritri is interested in development of a robust research management system within and among Indian institutes.
Dr Arpita Ghosh works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Head Biostatistics and Data Science. Arpita received her doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and post-doctoral training at the National Cancer Institute.
Her work involves quantitative research cutting across multiple areas of public health including childhood vaccination, nutrition, elderly health, and chronic diseases, particularly cancer. Arpita has extensive experience of working with secondary data sets and of conducting epidemiological studies and randomized trials. Her current research interests include causal inference for observational studies, adaptive trial designs for multi-stage studies, and record linkage.
Prior to joining The George Institute, Arpita was at the Public Health Foundation of India as a Research Scientist.
Dr Kumar is a Public Health researcher and pursuing his PhD in the area of ICD-coded sepsis disease burden at Critical Care Division of the George Institute for Global Health and working as Research Associate with Australian Sepsis Network.
Dr Kumar is a physician having a postgraduate degree in clinical pharmacology and an experienced medical researcher with a more than 14 years of cumulative academic-industry experience. In addition to Dr Kumar’s academic achievements, he has worked extensively in various roles ranging from early-to-late phase clinical and medical research. He has extensive clinical trials management and operational experience including large multinational studies.