Dr Menglu Ouyang is a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW. Her research field is in stroke, including acute care, clinical management, health system and implementation science. She has extensive experience 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 Brain Health Consumer Panel at The George Institute. She is in the editor board of BMC Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases and Frontiers Public Health. She was selected as the World Heart Federation Emerging Leader and World Stroke Organisation Conference Young Investigator.

Frances Bass works part-time at The George Institute for Global Health as Program Manager in the Critical Care Program. She also works at Royal North Shore Hospital as an Intensive Care Clinical Research Manager.

Frances is a Registered Nurse having completed a Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Certificate in Critical Care, and Masters of Science (Research). She has extensive experience in the management of critical care clinical trials operations including investigator-initiated, collaborative group and commercially sponsored trials. 

Frances sits on a number of scientific management committees. She is Secretary for the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) NSW/ACT Branch Management Committee and a member on the ACCCN Research Advisory Committee. She is Deputy Chair of the Northern Sydney Local Health District, Human Research Ethics Committee.