Dr Sue Haupt is a Research Associate at The George Institute for Global Health, the Women’s Health Program, and is also an Honorary Senior Research in the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at UoM. She focuses on sex disparities in medical research and health and has a track record of commitment to humanitarian research projects for health equity around the globe. She is internationally recognised for original, ground-breaking, research discoveries of sex differences in cancer (93 articles). She is an advocate for sex and gender policies in medical research and care on ABC Health Report (2019, 2021), which aligns directly with her contribution to the Launch of the Australian Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine in March 2024 at UNSW. She is an invited speaker on sex disparities at international medical conferences and across a breadth of diverse, national public forums. A medical science writer of original research (e.g. NatComms), reviews, commentaries and perspectives (e.g. NatMed, including features on sex disparities in health (e.g. NatRevCancer). She is committed to educating the next generation of research scientists and has extensive experience as a: graduate student supervisor (8 PhD, 1 ongoing, 2 MA students and 6 Honours students, all H1 graduates); mentor; chair and member of university student committees. 

Severine has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems and Piloting and an Associate Degree in Statistics and Data Management from the University of South-Brittany (France).

Before joining the George Institute in 2006 she worked in a contract research organisation in the United States and at the National Research and Safety Institute in France. She has extensive experience programming and validating statistical analyses for clinical trials from various phases and therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and cardiology.

Bijini is Data Manager at the George Institute for Global Health. She has completed Masters in Computer Applications from Kakatiya University, Warangal, India. She has more than 9 years of experience with expertise in developing databases for surveys, community and hospital based observational studies and randomised clinical trials using different electronic data capture platforms. Her work at George includes database setup and deployment, database maintenance including mid-study updates, data reviews, data cleaning, database lock and archival. 

Dr. Ying Amanda Wang is a research fellow in the Renal and Metabolic Division in The George Institute. She is also a consultant nephrologist and general physician. After completion of her PhD at the University of Sydney, she continues clinical research at the George Institute, supported by a John Chalmer’s Post-doctoral Research Fellowship. Amanda is interested in acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, dialysis therapy, and musculoskeletal health in patients with kidney disease.