Associate Professor Brendon Neuen is Lead Global Clinical Trialist at The George Institute for Global Health, and Staff Specialist Nephrologist, Director of Kidney Trials, at Royal North Shore Hospital. He is the Co-Chair of SMART-C (SGLT2 Inhibitor Meta-Analysis Cardio-Renal Trialists' Consortium; www.SMART-C.net), Director of the CLARITY-IgAN Consortium (Collaborative Longitudinal Assessment of Randomised Interventions and Therapies; www.CLARITY-IgAN.org) and holds senior leadership roles in multiple global, late-phase drug registration trials evaluating therapies to prevent kidney failure and cardiovascular disease.

His research has informed more than 30 clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements, and he is actively involved in the development of national and international standards, including for KDIGO and the American Society of Nephrology. A/Prof Neuen has authored over 175 peer-reviewed publications, including works in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and Nature Medicine. He serves on the editorial boards for flagship journals of the European Renal Association and the American Diabetes Association.

A/Prof Neuen studied medicine at James Cook University (First Class Honours, Academic Medal), holds a Masters in Global Health from the University of Oxford (Clarendon Scholar, top-ranked dissertation), a PhD from UNSW (NHMRC funded), and completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. A Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the American Society of Nephrology, his work is supported by the NHMRC, Ramaciotti Foundation and philanthropic sources, and has been recognized through awards including the Royal Society of New South Wales Ida Browne Medal and the American Heart Association's Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award.

Dr Balaji Gummidi is a Senior Project Manager at The George Institute for Global Health India. Dr Gummidi has over 7 years of experience in epidemiological data analysis and effective reporting. He has a blend of experience in project implementation, evaluation, research designs, data analysis, quality control, scientific writing and publications.

Dr Gummidi finished his Bachelor's degree in Dental Surgery at NRT university of health science, completed his Masters of Public Health from Jodhpur National University, Rajasthan and MBA in Hospital Management from GITAM University, Visakhapatnam. He has worked as Research Assistant in Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Maulana Azad Medical College and as a Research Fellow under Public Health Foundation of India.

Dr Gummidi has received various prestigious scholarships from Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP), Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Fogarty Global Health, National Structured Operational Research and Training IniTiative (Sort-IT), American Thoracic Society (ATS).

Dr. Soumyadeep Bhaumik is a medical doctor and international public health research methodologist striving to harness the power of science to drive just transformation for healthier individuals, communities, and nations.

As the Head of the Meta-research and Evidence Synthesis Unit at The George Institute for Global Health, he oversees an agile global team of researchers, specialising in using fit-for-purpose approaches for synthesising evidence to inform policies, practices, and guidelines. He is recognised internationally for his work on evidence synthesis, particularly research priority setting and core outcome sets - both its conduct and methodological aspects. He also works on the moral and epistemological aspects of meta-research in health and medicine with the intent to transform the evidence ecosystem from justice-blind to pro-justice. Soumyadeep also conducts interpretive policy analysis to understand the societal construction and framing of public health problems. As a methodologist, he works in a disease-agnostic manner, although recent work has had a focus on snakebite.

Soumyadeep' s work has impacted the way research is conducted -through the Cochrane Handbook Chapter, which provides guidance on framing the scope of systematic reviews, development of reporting guidelines for research, and through methodological research. His work routinely influences guidelines, and policies of governments and multi-laterals. They have consistently been listed as one of the top 2% lifetime cited researchers (Stanford University analysis in General & Internal Medicine and Public Health field) since 2021.

Karena Conroy leads the Consumer and Community Involvement Program at The George Institute for Global Health, having established this central support structure from the ground up. She is a health research facilitator and occasional researcher, with an educational background in the social sciences, psychology, and a PhD in Health.

Her work focuses on improving and increasing consumer and community involvement in health research across the Institute and the wider health and medical research sector. Karena brings together knowledge and experience from both health research and lived experience of health conditions, enabling her to bridge these perspectives effectively.

Karena is committed to involving community members in meaningful, impactful ways that align with best practice. She is passionate about improving population health and believes that working collaboratively with those affected by health research is key to achieving better outcomes.

Marna van Zyl is Legal Director at The George Institute.

Professor Jeffrey Lipman is a career Intensivist, having worked full-time in Intensive Care Units since 1979.  

He received his medical degree (MBBCh) from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and has specialist qualifications in anaesthesia (DA, FFA) and intensive care (FFA Crit Care, FCICM). Prior to moving to Australia in 1997 he was Head of ICU at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Currently he is Director of the Intensive Care Services (Royal Brisbane and Womens’ Hospital), Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Queensland. He also is the Executive Director of the Burns, Trauma, Critical Care Research Centre at this University. He has Adjunct Professorial appointments at Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney and the University of Witwatersrand.

His research interests include all aspects of infection management in intensive care. He has a special interest in the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics, an area in which he completed his MD through the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

He has published over 30 book chapters and over 450 peer-reviewed articles including in high impact journals like NEJM, JAMA and Lancet Infectious Diseases. He has supervised over a dozen PhDs, is Section Editor of a number of peer-reviewed journals and reviews for many more. 

He currently holds dozens of peer-reviewed grants including 4 from NHMRC. Over the recent past the accumulated worth of these grants is over $10 million.  

He has been an invited speaker to over 100 Congresses Nationally and Internationally, being a Keynote speaker in many countries around the world.

He has been the recipient of a number of National and International awards for his service to Intensive Care Medicine.

Adam is an Intensivist who currently serves as Senior Staff Specialist, Head of Intensive Care Unit Research, and Deputy Director Intensive Care Unit at The Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

He also holds a part-time Clinician Fellowship with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and honorary positions as an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide.

Dr Arpita Ghosh works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Head Biostatistics and Data Science. Arpita received her doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and post-doctoral training at the National Cancer Institute.

Her work involves quantitative research cutting across multiple areas of public health including childhood vaccination, nutrition, elderly health, and chronic diseases, particularly cancer. Arpita has extensive experience of working with secondary data sets and of conducting epidemiological studies and randomized trials. Her current research interests include causal inference for observational studies, adaptive trial designs for multi-stage studies, and record linkage.

Prior to joining The George Institute, Arpita was at the Public Health Foundation of India as a Research Scientist.

Dr Susmita Chatterjee works at The George Institute for Global Health India as a Program Head of Health Economics. She has a PhD from the University of Calcutta, and is interested in investigating costing of health services, health financing, and economic evaluations. 

She has worked on several health economics projects in the areas of mental health, diabetes, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis and immunization. She was the recipient of Asia Fellows Award in 2008; Indo-US public health fellowship in 2013 and Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance Intermediate fellowship in Clinical and Public Health in 2017. She was the Core Costing Working Group member for preparing the costing manual on provider payment mechanism – an initiative by the Joint Learning Network (JLN), USA and the economics group member of TB MAC (Tuberculosis Modelling and Analysis Consortium).

Before joining The George Institute India, she worked as Associate Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi.

Mercian Daniel is Senior Research Fellow in, Mental Health Program at George Institute India. He has done his M.Phil. from Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi and his Ph.D. from JNU, New Delhi.

He has over 15 years of research and program implementation working in different capacities at Deptt. of Psychiatry, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi; IIMC, Dept. of Communication Research, New Delhi; Praxis, New Delhi and Save the Children, Calcutta. More recently, he was with PHFI working in reproductive health and urban health governance projects. He has also taught postgraduate students at Delhi School of Social Work, New Delhi and prepared MSW curriculum for St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata.

His research interest lies in evaluating the impact of different forms of anti-stigma campaigns in mental health, first-person accounts of living with mental illness and its contribution to policy narratives, the social determinants and gradient in mental disorders.

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.

Associate Professor Tamara Mackean (MBBS, MPH, FAFPHM) is a Waljen woman of the north-east Goldfields region of Western Australia and a Public Health Medicine Physician. She is the Discipline Lead for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University and holds a conjoint appointment as a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health and Associate Professor at UNSW. Dr Mackean conducts a broad range of public health research with a focus on equity and quality in health services and systems, social and emotional wellbeing, and food and nutrition. She applies multiple methods and research designs including indigenous research methodologies and decolonising approaches to implementation science to inform governments, health services, community organisations and health practitioners. Associate Professor Mackean’s keen interest to positively influence the health and well-being of all Australians extends to supervising higher research degree students working in the field of Public Health.