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CREST - Statistics & Data Science

Our global team of biostatisticians, statisticians and data scientists conduct complex statistical analyses to support health and medical research, ensuring its quality, validity, and reliability. Our data experts can provide the quantitative, qualitative, and statistical analyses needed to answer your complex research questions and support data driven decision-making. Our services include: Study Design: Developing robust research plans and complex trial designs. Data Collection: Gathering data through surveys, administrative records, web scraping, or other means. Data Management & Governance: Ensuring data quality, validity, and long-term accessibility. Statistical & Data Analysis: Applying complex statistical models, machine learning, and bioinformatics techniques to analyse data and draw insights. Predictive analytics: for research and program outcomes Data Visualization: Creating interactive displays to explore and communicate findings.

CREST - Research training

Our globally recognised Research Training Programs blend academic rigour with practical, real-world application to build research capacity and drive evidence-based healthcare. Developed and delivered by experts at The George Institute for Global Health, these programs empower early career researchers, clinicians, public health professionals, clinical trial staff, and policymakers to lead impactful research across diverse health systems. Offered face-to-face, online, or in blended formats, each course is designed to be globally informed while tailored with regional context to ensure practical relevance. Whether undertaken individually or as part of a broader training pathway, these programs foster innovation, strengthen expertise, and support meaningful collaborations that advance global health outcomes. Our programs are ideal for: Clinicians and allied health professionals new to research Research managers and coordinators Policy makers and public health practitioners

CREST - First Nations Research and Consulting

Specialising in First Nations research and engagement, The George Institute’s Guuna Maana team supports culturally safe, Indigenous-led and co-designed research grounded in Indigenous knowledges, values and priorities. We work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations to ensure respectful, inclusive research design and methodology, as well as equity-centred program development and implementation. Our services include: Community-led research centered in Indigenous methodologies Translational research, data analysis and program evaluation Equity-centred policy and program design, recommendations and implementation Training and capacity building, including in Indigenous research methodologies, cultural safety and community engagement Who we work with: Local, state and national governments Public health agencies and networks Policy planners and senior program managers Aborigi

CREST - Stakeholder Engagement and Advocacy

Our Impact and engagement team excels at facilitating meaningful advocacy, consultations and stakeholder engagement with decision-makers and the communities they serve. We bring key stakeholders together to co-create impactful, context-driven policy recommendations and solutions that drive real changes to healthcare. Our approach supports both retrospective and prospective policy consultations on priority issues including chronic disease, health equity and access. We develop comprehensive policy briefs and foster inclusive dialogue, turning evidence and research into actionable outcomes for health policies and programs. Our services include: Stakeholder consultation and strategic engagement Organisation, convening and facilitation of dialogues and meetings Policy briefs Community engagement and involvement strategies Advocacy support for evidence-informed policies Who we work with: Local, state and national governments Public

CREST - Research Training Facilitators

Our course facilitators

India

The George Institute for Global Health India, established in 2007, is a leading independent health research organisation committed to improving the lives of vulnerable and underserved populations across the country. With offices in New Delhi and Hyderabad, along with multiple field sites, our work spans 21 states across India. Central to our mission is turning research into action, ensuring that evidence is translated into practical solutions and policy change that directly improves health outcomes. At The George Institute, our areas of research address some of the world’s biggest health challenges, focusing on areas like cardiovascular health, health equity, health systems science, injury and trauma, mental health and neurology, multiple long-term conditions, renal and metabolic, women’s health, planetary health, and nutrition and food systems. Each program is designed to tackle specific health concerns through targeted research initiatives that aim to improve prevention,

Keziah Bennett-Brook

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Keziah is a Torres Strait Islander woman and Director of Guunu-maana (Heal) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program at The George Institute for Global Health. Keziah is a Future Women Emerging Leader, and sits on the Association of Australian Medical Research Institute's Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee. Keziah chairs the George Institute's Global Research and Impact Committee and has chaired the Research Committee for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health since 2017. She leads the development and implementation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research strategy, policy, stakeholder partnerships and Indigenous research coordination within a global research institute.

Keziah has extensive experience in social and cultural determinants of health, Indigenous methodologies, and knowledge translation and impact measurement that privilege Indigenous knowledges, as well as applying decolonising methods to organisation and systems change. Keziah is a recognised leader in implementation of strategic organisational activities to increase cultural safety and capability within global health research.

 

 

Assoc. Prof Julieann Coombes

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Dr Julieann Coombes identifies as a Gumbaynggir woman and highly skilled career professional with over 27 years nursing experience working in Aboriginal Community Health. She now focuses on improving health inequalities and outcomes for First Nations people and communities through research using Indigenous Knowledges (knowing, being and doing) and methodologies which empowers First Nations people’s voices in all her work. She has extensive experience in social and cultural determinants of health research, Indigenous methodologies and applies decolonising methods to all her research projects. Julieann has a commitment to ensure that all research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is conducted in an ethical correct way and research integrity should be underpinned by equity, transparency, and self-determination.

Her work in Indigenous research methods, public health knowledge and qualitative research, work which is published, has been cited in policy, media, and academic publications.

Julieann received her PhD at University of Technology, Sydney and is a Senior Research Fellow for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program at The George Institute for Global Health.

Consumer and Community Involvement Program

The CCI Program was established to ensure meaningful and fit-for-purpose involvement of those most impacted by health research, as guided by the NHMRC statement on Consumer and Community Involvement: “The active involvement of consumers and community members in health and medical research benefits the quality and direction of research. Consumer and community involvement is about research being carried out with or by consumers and community members rather than to, about or for them. The CCI Program recognises the valuable insights and expertise of those with lived experience and that members of the community can contribute to all areas of research. The Program supports the integration of consumer and community members in all levels of health and medical research. Role of Consumer and Community Involvement program The CCI Program is a centralised support service for consumers and researchers. It provides the following services for the George Institute: Advi

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Tazman Davies

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Tazman Davies is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate in the Food Policy Division. His research focuses on population-level nutrition and alcohol policies for large-scale improvements in health. He has a particular interest in WHO “best buys” for addressing non-communicable diseases.

His PhD examines the potential effectiveness and implementation feasibility of health-promoting food taxes and subsidies in Australia. Tazman holds a BSc (Advanced Mathematics) from the University of Sydney and an MSc (Health Data Science) from UNSW. He has authored more than 20 peer reviewed publications, including first-author papers in Nature Food and The Lancet Public Health.
 

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