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Dr Manoj Saxena

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Manoj continues to practise as an Intensive Care Physician and is based part-time at St. George Public Hospital in Sydney, playing a key role in the intensive care research program with Professor John Myburgh.

His postgraduate qualifications include Fellowship of both the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and Australia and Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine.

Research interests include large scale clinical observational and randomised trials.  Further specific areas of research interest include the role of fever in severe infections and acute brain injury, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness and Early Mobility, and Outcome Evaluation in Critical Care Medicine research.

The impact of our donors

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Fuelling the big ideas in the healthy food revolution

The Ian Potter Foundation invests AUD $1.2million in The George Institute’s vision for a healthier world.

Supporting the future of health innovation

Soul Patts nurtures our future tech leaders to bring game-changing health solutions to life.

Laying the foundations for innovative healthcare solutions

The George Institute’s founders are building on their pioneering vision with a transformational, million-dollar investment.

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Your generosity makes real change possible. From innovative research to global solutions, our donors drive progress and transform lives. We couldn’t do it without you.

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Commercial Determinants of Health Program

Program Overview Commercial determinants of health refer to the systems, structures, and strategies employed by commercial actors, such as corporations and industries, that influence health outcomes. The Commercial Determinants of Health team at The George Institute works across Australia and internationally to reduce the burden of death and disease linked to harmful commercial practices. Through rigorous, independent research, we provide governments, NGOs, and public health organisations with the evidence needed to develop and implement effective solutions. Our team employs multi-disciplinary and multi-method approaches across key areas, including nutrition, alcohol, tobacco and vaping, and transport. Nutrition: health and sustainabilityOur research examines food environments, focusing on unhealthy food marketing, ultra-processed foods, and the baby food market. We evaluate and support behaviour change tools like to help consumers make healthier choices. Planetary health is also a

Driving innovation in stroke care and sustainable clinical trials

News / Funding success 02 Jun 2026

Experts call for urgent action as seven million Australians living with high blood pressure

News / Media release 02 Jun 2026

Associate Professor Sradha Kotwal

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Dr Kotwal is a clinical nephrologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney; Program Head of the Renal and Metabolic Division at The George Institute for Global Health and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW. Her research interests include novel and pragmatic clinical trials and she is passionate about increasing clinical trial access for patients with kidney disease and personalised medicine. Dr Kotwal is the Academic Project Director for the GKPTN and the principal investigator for the Glomerular Disease Registry and Biobank in Sydney. She has expertise in translating research into clinical practice and in-depth knowledge of statistical techniques, epidemiology and clinical trial design.

Dr Menglu Ouyang

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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.

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