Dr Katie Harris is a Senior Research Fellow in the Professorial Unit at the George Institute for Global Health. Her areas of expertise include Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, awarded a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Leeds, UK. She also holds a Conjoint Senior Lecturer position at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Katie has extensive experience working with big data, including population-based, linked and non-linked datasets, and clinical trials data. Her current research interests are in sex and gender differences, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, and dementia and cognitive decline.

With a PhD in Biomedical Sciences and MSc in Biostatistics, Jason received post-doctoral training in nutrition epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Professor and the Head of the Nutrition Science Program at the George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales. His research and teaching focuses on reducing diet-related diseases through implementing innovative ‘Food is Medicine’ interventions, modelling the impact of population-level food policies, and determining the role of dietary factors for cardiometabolic diseases prevention and treatment. Jason's research has been published in top medical and nutrition journals including Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, BMJ, Circulation, and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He has over 150 publications and has received many highly competitive awards, fellowships and grants, with total research funding of more than $14million to date.

Dr Kristy Law is a Research Fellow and Accredited Practicing Dietitian at The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on advancing Food Is Medicine (FIM) approaches to address diet-related chronic disease and food insecurity through rigorous clinical research and implementation science.

Kristy's PhD examined the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of Food Is Medicine interventions in Australia, with a particular focus on medically tailored meals. As part of her doctoral work, she co-led Australia's first Medically Tailored Meals randomised controlled trial for adults with type 2 diabetes (n=230), in partnership with Professor Jason Wu. This landmark trial generated critical evidence to inform the design, scalability, and future evaluation of Food Is Medicine interventions in the Australian healthcare context.

Dr Law has experience in developing and implementing nutrition and dietetic services with food‑insecure populations, including women and families in Perth, Australia; at‑risk youth in New Jersey, USA; and rural and remote communities in Western Australia. She has also contributed to public health nutrition initiatives supporting government policies focused on food environments and obesity prevention.

Kristy's background informs her focus on supporting localised implementation and uptake of FIM programs. Her research centres on building multisectoral collaborations to understand how FIM programs can be designed and implemented in ways that respond to community needs and health system contexts. Drawing on real‑world experience, she aims to translate research findings into practical strategies to improve population health and support equitable prevention and management of chronic disease.

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.