Abhinav Bassi is a physiotherapist trained in public health, currently working as a Senior Research Fellow and Operations Lead at the George Institute for Global Health, India. He has a wealth of experience in epidemiological research, advocacy, and civil society network coordination. At present, Abhinav is leading a team of researchers responsible for designing and conducting pragmatic academic trials specifically in the areas of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and COVID-19. His other work at the George Institute includes developing and testing mobile-based decision support systems to prevent, screen, treat, and manage non-communicable diseases.

Mobile health interventions, automation in project management, and interactive dashboard development are some of his key interest areas. 

Briar is a National Heart Foundation of Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Accredited Practicing Dietitian within the Food Policy Division and the Professorial Unit at The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney. She is also a conjoint lecturer with UNSW. Her work is currently focused on two main areas: firstly, investigating the relationship between diet and poor brain health in Australia, and secondly, scaling-up of food policy interventions in Pacific Island Countries.

Briar was awarded her PhD in March 2022. Her PhD focused on investigating the relationship of sex and gender with the diet-related burden of cardiometabolic diseases. She used both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate this topic. Throughout her PhD she worked as a research associate for the WHO Collaborating Center on Population Salt Reduction, at The George Institute.

Briar holds an undergraduate degree in Nutritional Science (BSc) and a Master’s of Dietetics (MDiet) from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Min Jun is Scientia Associate Professor and Program Lead at the George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney.

Min leads a program of research focused on understanding the impact of clinical management strategies in people with kidney disease and its related complications. He has developed and leads international projects using large clinical trial and real-world, population based data sources.

Min holds a PhD (2012) and MScMed(ClinEpi) in clinical epidemiology from the University of Sydney, and a MSc(by research) and BSc(Hon) from UNSW Sydney. He was previously an NHMRC Early Career Fellow (2013-2016) based in Canada (University of Calgary), co-funded by two additional competitive federal/provincial Canadian fellowships (CIHR/AIHS). Min's research track record includes >100 publications (including in top-ranked journals e.g. BMJ, Lancet, JACC), >$5.1M in research funding from top-level funding agencies (e.g. NHMRC). To date, 72% of his work is published in top 10% journals worldwide, has been cited >4500 times including in some 24 international clinical practice guidelines across various fields.

Min is actively involved in mentoring, training and supervising research students and fellows. He currently serves as Associate Editor (Global Health) for Kidney and Blood Pressure Research and has been involved in the development of clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with kidney disease in Australia and internationally.

Emma Feeny is Chief Impact Officer at The George Institute. She leads a global programme of external engagement activities aimed at facilitating the translation and impact of the Institute’s research, spanning advocacy, policy engagement, thought leadership, community engagement, communications, marketing and philanthropy. She also oversees development and delivery of the Institute’s impact agenda and knowledge mobilisation capacity. 

Emma has over 20 years’ experience of driving impact in the research, international development and humanitarian sectors, and of building partnerships with government, multilateral, civil society, private sector and academic stakeholders globally. Before joining The George Institute, she worked as a global policy and advocacy advisor at Oxfam, and previously held policy and communications roles with organisations including the UN World Food Programme and the University of Oxford. 

A former journalist with organisations including Reuters and the Financial Times, Emma holds a Masters degree in the Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Professor Rodney Phillips is Professor Emeritus at UNSW, Sydney and an Honorary Fellow of Oxford’s Pembroke College.

Rodney is an immunologist specialising in HIV and infectious diseases. He was Professor of Medicine and Head of Research and Associate Dean of Oxford University’s Division of Medical Sciences. He also served as Vice-Dean of Medical Sciences, Director of Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Co-Director of Oxford Martin Institute for Emerging Infections.

Rodney joined the Board in May 2017 and is a Member of the Risk Committee.

Kerry actively manages all peer-reviewed funding processes and procedure for TGI Australia by providing and coordinating pre-award support to all academics and researchers.

She oversees post-award management of successful research grant applications.

Professor Anne Mills is Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Health Economics and Policy. She has degrees from Oxford University (MA), Leeds University (Diploma), and London University (PhD).

After two years as Overseas Development Institute Fellow and Economist in the Ministry of Health in Malawi, Professor Mills spent three years at the University of Leeds studying health planning in the NHS and moved to the LSHTM in 1979. She has researched and published widely in the fields of health economics and health systems in low- and middle-income countries and continues to be involved in research on financial protection in South Africa, Tanzania, India and Thailand. Professor Mills continues to be involved in supporting capacity development in health economics in universities, research institutes and governments.

She has been involved in numerous policy initiatives, including WHO's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and the 2009 High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Finance for Health Systems. Professor Mills has a CBE for services to medicine, is a Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2009, she received the Prince Mahidol Award in the field of medicine. In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 2015 she was made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours, for services to international health.

Devaki Nambiar is Program Director, Health Equity at the George Institute for Global Health India with appointments at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA.

She is a Health Policy and Systems Researcher (HPSRer) with over two decades of experience working in India and other Low- and Middle-Income Countries on decision-maker demand-driven research, postgraduate teaching in HPSR, as well as technical assistance with an emphasis on community action for health, social exclusion, health equity and health for all. She is a former Fulbright, Fogarty, and NIH scholar, and Fellow of the Wellcome Trust/Department of Biotechnology India Alliance. She advises the WHO on health inequality monitoring, national programme re-orientation, and guideline development to leave no one behind.

She serves on the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on Improving Population Health post COVID-19, the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare, and advises Lancet Commissions on Women and Cancer as well as on Reimagining India's Health System. She is a member of the People's Health Movement and the Medico Friends Circle. She also serves on the Board of Health Systems Global and the Research Advisory Board of the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India. Dr. Nambiar received her doctorate in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009 and is a recipient of an Emerging Leader Award from the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Dr Meena Thuraisingham is Founder and Principal at BoardQ and TalentInvest. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Shared Value Project and Linden Art Gallery.

Meena has previously held executive roles at ANZ, including Global Head of Leadership and Talent and Head of Human Resources, Corporate & Institutional Bank. She has also held senior consultant roles with two global consulting firms.

Meena joined the Board in January 2018 and is a Member of the Risk Committee.

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Margie passed away in January 2026. Her vibrant and wide-reaching legacy continues, not least in the work to which she dedicated much of her life: on how to prevent unintentional injuries, particularly in resource-strapped countries.

While road injuries were the biggest issue, Margie's work also canvased other significant problems of drowning, burns and falls, and identified interventions that could save lives. Her research looked at what works, specifically in developing countries. It provided evidence on how to prevent injuries before they happen. But it also looked at the post-crash phase, working with nurses – who are the mainstay of healthcare provision in developing countries – to provide optimum treatment management. In some developing countries, traumatic injuries account for up to 70%-80% of the caseloads in emergency rooms. If you can stop these injuries upstream, there are enormous gains for healthcare systems, both financially and in terms of workforce needs.

Representing The George Institute for Global Health and South Africa, Margie was a member of the Commonwealth Road Safety Initiative Expert Panel and together with colleagues from Kenya and Canada led the data analysis for the reports being developed ahead of the 3rd Ministerial level meeting in Sweden in February 2020 and the CHOG meeting in Rwanda. She was also a member of the Academic Expert Group for this Ministerial meeting, a group responsible for making an independent and scientific assessment of the progress made during the Decade of Action for Road Safety. The Academic Expert Group will also recommend a road safety strategy for the period 2020-2030. Margie was also Chair of the Global Advisory Board for the Malawi Road Safety Research and Implementation Unit at the University of Malawi.

Amanda Henry is Program Head, Women’s Health at The George Institute for Global Health and Professor of Obstetrics in the Discipline of Women’s Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health. Her professional background is as a Clinical Academic and Obstetrician, with a clinical practice focussed on high-risk pregnancy at St George Hospital, Sydney.

Her research focus, including her current NSW Health Early-Mid Career Cardiovascular Fellowship, is on how pregnancy complications, particularly hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes, can affect women’s lifelong health.  She leads a program of work on early intervention and improving systems of care to advance long-term cardiovascular health outcomes for women after a hypertensive pregnancy. Amanda is also an active researcher and research supervisor in the areas of high-risk pregnancy and pregnancy/postpartum clinical trials, and teaches pregnancy care to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Amanda has a strong emphasis on collaborative research projects to drive improvements in Women’s Health, and in addition to her role with the George Institute, researches collaboratively with medical, midwifery and Allied Health colleagues, as well as consumer and community partners, both locally and nationally. She also promotes Women’s Health research translation into guidelines, policy and practice through her professional society roles, including as Councillor for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand. 

Professor Jane Hirst is Chair in Global Women’s Health at The George Institute for Global Health, UK, and the School of Public Health at Imperial College. She is also Visiting Professor in Global Women's Health at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Obstetrician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

She is an active clinical researcher with projects focussed on global women’s health and investigating novel approaches to improve health care delivery. She has a particular interest in preventing cardiometabolic complications in women after high-risk pregnancy conditions such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia.

Professor Hirst is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her Fellowship title is “Pregnancy as an opportunity to improve women’s lifelong health”. She is PI for the SMART Health Pregnancy trial in India. This trial is being conducted in two rural districts in two states, and is evaluating a community-based intervention and digital clinical decision support tool to improve screening, management and referral of high risk conditions during pregnancy and in the in first year after birth.