Dr Edward Mullins is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, London and the George Institute for Global Health and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, London. He is also an NIHR ARC NWL Improvement Leader Fellow in the 2023 cohort.

His PhD at Imperial College investigated the fetal and maternal inflammatory response in Fetal Growth Restriction. Following this, Ed won a fellowship with Professor Dame Sally Davies, England CMO, as editor-in-chief of the CMO’s annual report, ‘Women: the health of the 51%.’ As an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, Ed has investigated self-monitoring of maternal cardiovascular health and prevention of Gestational Diabetes.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed was seconded as clinical adviser to Professor Chris Whitty, England CMO, and produced rapid reviews on coronavirus infection in pregnancy and in children, which he presented to SAGE and formed the basis of clinical guidelines for the UK.

He is co-CI for PAN-COVID, an NIHR-funded global registry of women affected by suspected COVID-19 or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy and their neonates. Ed is also co-CI for COM-SARS-2 study, an historical seroprevalence study in 11,000 maternal serum samples to evaluate the introduction and onset of community transmission of SARs-CoV-2 in NW London.

Ed has led a new clinical service to introduce post-birth contraception for all women in NW London, to allow women to access reliable family planning before discharge from their maternity service. He hopes to evaluate this and support national roll-out.

Dr Kumar is a Public Health researcher pursuing his PhD in the area of ICD-coded sepsis disease burden at the Critical Care Division of the George Institute for Global Health, and working as Research Associate with the Australian Sepsis Network.

Dr Kumar is a physician having a postgraduate degree in clinical pharmacology and an experienced medical researcher with more than 14 years of cumulative academic-industry experience. In addition to his academic achievements, he has worked extensively in various roles ranging from early-to-late phase clinical and medical research. He has extensive clinical trials management and operational experience including large multinational studies. 

Lachlan is an Intensive Care Specialist who works at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He holds appointments as Honorary Research Fellow at The George Institute, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney.

Lachlan is an early career researcher having completed his PhD in 2025 (UNSW). He has an interest in Acute Kidney Injury research, as well as sepsis, neurocritical care, burns injury and the quality of ICU survivorship for patients and their carers. He previously completed a masters focused on analytical bias in meta-analysis.  

Niveditha is a medical doctor, trained in clinical research and applied statistics with over 15 years of experience in clinical and public health research. She completed her Masters in Clinical Trials from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and PhD from Deakin University, Australia. She is a recipient of the prestigious DBT/Wellcome Trust–India alliance Intermediate Clinical and Public Health fellowship (2020) for the design and evaluation of a technology-based post knee arthroplasty rehabilitation monitoring strategy. She has been involved in the design and analysis of several multicentre randomised controlled trials in maternal health and cardiovascular disease.

At The George Institute India, she is Program Head of Academic Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU), which aims to expand the capacity to conduct clinical trials for chronic diseases with an emphasis on quality and efficiency. She is also actively engaged in optimising management of clinical trials data using less resource-intensive methods. Prior to joining The George Institute, she worked for the Public Health Foundation of India, as an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health-Delhi.

Sindhu is the Head of Data Management. Following completion of her Master’s degree in Clinical Data Management from the University of Sydney, she has fulfilled a variety of data and systems orientated roles across the research, hospital, pathology, medical device, biotechnology and health charity sectors.

Her expertise includes clinical data management, software implementation, project management, business analysis, gap analysis, process re-engineering, risk management, change management, systems validation, systems integration, privacy and data governance.

One of her key achievements at The George Institute has been leading the development and implementation of the SPoT database which has substantially improved the tracking and reporting of key Institute research activity such as funding, projects and publications.

Gloria Benny is a Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. She holds a Master’s in Development from Azim Premji University, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Sociology from Christian Medical College, Vellore. Gloria has research interest in various areas like, Tribal health, Health equity, Social Determinants of Health and Health systems research.

Anna is HR & Communications Coordinator for the UK team. She is responsible for HR matters within the UK team, as well as supporting global HR projects and internal communications.

Outside of work, Anna is a qualified life coach and is studying a Masters in Psychology (Conversion). Anna has a strong interest in mental health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Stacie is a PhD student at UNSW and works in the Injury Division at The George Institute for Global Health. Stacie has been educating communities and advocating for better health outcomes in vulnerable groups since 2000, specifically in child injury prevention. She holds a Master of Public Health and is dedicated reducing unintentional childhood injury due to road trauma.

Catherine is a Associate Project Manager working in the Injury Division at The George Institute for Global Health. Catherine has been working within the Injury space since 2014. With a background in Health and Health Promotion, her expertise lies within child safety, particularly, child passenger safety in vehicles.

Her main roles are in project delivery and management. Catherine has extensive experience preparing ethics applications for committee reviews, recruiting participants for projects, developing databases to meet project needs, collecting data from research participants, managing research and participant data to ensure compliance, drafting reports to stakeholders and manuscripts for publication. She recently completed data collection for a randomised controlled trial involving 427 participants. Catherine conducted home visits to assess correctness of car seat installation 6-months after parents/families received an intervention developed by the research team.

Previously, Catherine has conducted qualitative interviews with parents and families from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to identify user needs in child restraint safety information. Similarly, she has been involved in focus group work with motorcyclists to investigate rider needs in protective clothing. Aside from conducting fieldwork, she has also been involved in numerous laboratory-based studies focusing on improving usability of child restraints and improving the comprehension and delivery of child restraint safety information.

Timothy Longstaff is a Non-Executive Director of Aurizon, Channel Nine, Ingham and Perenti Global. He is also a Member of the Australian Treasury’s Takeovers Panel.

Tim spent most of his career in global investment banking, leading mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and strategic transformation assignments for organisations including Managing Director of Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank. He also acted as a Senior Advisor to the Australian Minister for Trade and Investment, Simon Birmingham from 2018 to 2021.

Tim joined the Board in January 2022 and is Chair of the Risk Committee and Member of the Audit Committee.

Nikita is a physician with training in public health and health management. She completed an undergraduate degree in medicine from Bangalore, India and holds master’s degrees in international public health and health management from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

At the George Institute, Nikita is involved in the operationalisation and management of several academic randomised clinical trials in the area of renal disease, critical care and COVID-19. Nikita works closely with sponsors, trial steering committees, regulatory authorities, ethics committees and clinical sites across India to conduct trials ethically, and efficiently.

In addition to trial management, Nikita is currently a certified Good Clinical Practice (GCP) trainer and trains researchers, project managers and clinical site staff on good practices in clinical research. Her interests lie in clinical trial methodology, project management and data management.

Dr Maddie Heenan is a public health researcher, program manager and policy expert. She is a Project Manager in the Health Systems Science division at The George Institute for Global Health and an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW. Maddie brings extensive experience in health systems research, program management, strategy development, partnerships and stakeholder engagement, knowledge translation and strategic communication.

Her research interests include public health governance and regulation, policy development and implementation, research–policy partnerships, political economy, food and alcohol policy, and the commercial and social determinants of health. She also has expertise in qualitative evaluation and applied policy research.

Maddie has worked closely with government through policy dialogues, co design processes and commissioned research projects. She has served as an independent evaluator and provided advisory support across a range of public health and policy initiatives. An experienced facilitator, public speaker and negotiator, her career spans academia, policy, advocacy, government relations and program delivery.