Professor Lisa Keay is Head of the School of Optometry and Vision Science and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. She has developed links with government, community organisations and other stakeholders to identify key, policy-relevant research questions and to answer them with high quality research.  Her research tackles the two major causes of injury to older people: falls and road traffic injuries.

She is an injury epidemiologist with a PhD in ophthalmic epidemiology and Masters of Public Health University of NSW Wales and a post-doctoral research fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.

Maddie is a Research Associate and PhD candidate within the Health Systems Science team at the George Institute for Global Health. She is also an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW, and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.

Her research seeks to use public health law to prioritise government action in chronic disease prevention, and environmental health and sustainability. Her areas of research include public health law and regulation, commercial determinants of health, policy coherence and the political economy. Maddie has worked closely with a variety of governments on research and policy issues. Her PhD is part of a larger project working with a multi-disciplinary team of policy makers, public health lawyers and nutrition experts to co-design regulations under the South Australian Public Health Act to prevent NCDs.

Maddie has a background in policy, advocacy and strategic communications. Prior to undertaking her candidature, she was working as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) in Canberra. Some of Maddie’s work includes leading the campaign to update the NSW Liquor Act to better regulate online sales and delivery of alcohol, and ensuring the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry went beyond competition issues to also focus on consumer rights and the predatory advertising strategies of junk food, alcohol and gambling industries.

Manoj is Data Manager at the George Institute. He is a post-graduate in computer sciences and population studies with 15 years of experience in data management of health research data that includes- database design, implementation and data analysis using various applications. He has experience of working with national and international surveys (NFHS, DLHS, SAGE, GATS) and academic clinical trials. Before joining The George Institute, he worked at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India and Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur.

Manuela is the Senior Clinical Data Manager for the Statistics and Data Management division of The George Institute, Australia.

Maoyi Tian is a honorary senior fellow working in The George Institute China. He received his Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University of York, UK and his MSc of Biomedical Engineering from University of Oxford, UK.

He graduated with his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is currently a MPhil candidate in Epidemiology in The University of Sydney. His main research focus is using mobile health and health technology for chronic disease management and prevention in the primary care setting, particularly the integration of the mobile health or health technology into the existing health care system.

Maree is responsible for designing, leading, and delivering a distinctive and vibrant postgraduate, postdoctoral and future leader research experience at The George. Maree and her team provide management and oversight of ‘higher degree by research’ candidates, their supervisors, visiting fellows and work with the training team to co-ordinate postgraduate research training.

Maree also leads a program of research focusing on developing simple, cost-effective strategies to prevent depression and significantly improve the outcome for people with chronic disease.

Maree works one day per week as a Professor of Epidemiology in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at The University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom.

Sudhir is currently working as database manager for FoodSwitch (India) study. He is responsible for managing and maintaining the Indian Food Composition Database, including data collection, processing, quality control and working with stakeholders (Food Industry). 

Sudhir has expertise in managing projects, conducting health surveys and program evaluations. He also has international exposure working in Mongolia as a Health Researcher assigned to the Provincial Health Department and later as a Program Advisor in the European Commission funded health project ‘Improving health through community volunteering and empowerment’.

He also worked in both governmental and non-governmental sectors within institutions and ministries implementing a number of projects in areas of capacity development, child health, and immunization. His areas of interest are noncommunicable diseases, community health, and health system management.

He is also involved in the ‘Science of salt’ project funded by the University of Calgary, where he is collating data from research articles in the area of salt on a regular basis to be uploaded to a website for dissemination and works on Science of Salt Weekly.

Sultana Shajahan is a Senior Research Assistant within the Professorial Unit at the George Institute for Global Health. After completing her medical degree, she further pursued a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Macquarie University, Sydney.

Her Master’s thesis included a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at sex differences in cardiovascular mortality among chronic kidney disease patients. Her current work involves looking at sex and gender differences in stroke and multimorbidity, while supporting various research and clinical trial activities within the Professorial Unit.  

Sultana is passionate about combining her clinical experience and research skills to address complex questions in medicine and public health. Her research interests include sex and gender differences, stroke, multimorbidity, chronic kidney disease and clinical trials.

Professor Sunil Badve is a senior staff specialist nephrologist at St. George Hospital, Sydney and Conjoint Professor at UNSW Medicine and Health. His medical education has been at the University of Mumbai and the University of Ottawa. He also has a PhD from the University of Queensland. He is a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.

Professor Badve’s primary research focus is in clinical trials, meta-analyses and epidemiology, particularly in progression of chronic kidney disease, anticoagulation and treatment of cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease. He has received more than $12 million NHMRC research funding as a chief investigator.

Professor Badve is the Nephrology Subspecialty Editor for the Internal Medicine Journal and serves on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Dr Suparna is a nutritionist by training and has more than 26 years of experience as a clinical, academic and research nutritionist. At The George Institute, she is actively engaged in research projects on food systems, its drivers, food security, food and nutrition policy, dietary diversity and nutritional status of women and children in vulnerable communities.

Before joining The George Institute, she has worked at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) as a Professor and Head, Community Nutrition, a faculty at Delhi University, a research dietitian at The Children‘s Hospital at Westmead, Australia, a consultant at the Planning Commission of India and a senior clinical nutritionist at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.

Her research interests include developing innovative tools for nutritional assessment, evaluation of nutrition-specific programs, developing low-cost food-based solutions to address malnutrition and food policies to address non -communicable diseases in India. In clinical nutrition, she has a special interest in medical nutrition therapy for children with inborn errors of metabolism. She is an expert member of the steering committee for Public Health and Nutrition under the department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. She is also a member of the taskforce formed by the Government of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, to reduce MMR, NMR, IMR and malnutrition in the state.

Surekha Garimella is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute, working on the ARISE Hub – a project aimed at strengthening accountability mechanisms for improving equitable health and well-being for people living and working in informal urban spaces. Surekha holds a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition, a Master of Science in Nutrition & Food science, a Master of Philosophy in Applied economics, and a PhD in Public Health, Gender and Work.

Her research interests are in gender, women, work and political economy; Gendered health systems and accountability; feminist theory and practice and ethics of research practice. She has worked in implementation and research in gender, nutrition, health and wellbeing among women, children and adolescents in informal urban settlements in Delhi and Tamil Nadu as well as researched on the health and wellbeing experiences of women workers in urban informal settlements in Delhi.

Dr Susmita Chatterjee works at The George Institute for Global Health India as a Program Head of Health Economics. She has a PhD from the University of Calcutta, and is interested in investigating costing of health services, health financing, and economic evaluations. 

She has worked on several health economics projects in the areas of mental health, diabetes, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis and immunization. She was the recipient of Asia Fellows Award in 2008; Indo-US public health fellowship in 2013 and Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance Intermediate fellowship in Clinical and Public Health in 2017. She was the Core Costing Working Group member for preparing the costing manual on provider payment mechanism – an initiative by the Joint Learning Network (JLN), USA and the economics group member of TB MAC (Tuberculosis Modelling and Analysis Consortium).

Before joining The George Institute India, she worked as Associate Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi.