Announcing Dr Janine Mohamed as new Distinguished Fellow
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Dr Antonia (Tania) Thodis
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Dr Tania Thodis is a research fellow and accredited practising dietitian leading the FareShare Medically Tailored Meals Pilot Program, a joint partnership with Australia’s largest not-for-profit food relief organisation providing millions of meals for vulnerable Australians. A ‘Food Is Medicine’ advocate, Tania is passionate about improving access to nutritious foods and diet quality underpinned by a culturally responsive approach to improve health outcomes of vulnerable and ethnically diverse communities. Clinical and mixed method research experience includes acute and outpatient healthcare settings, facilitating dietary intervention trials testing Mediterranean-style diet and lifestyle interventions as a model for preventing and managing chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, dementia and cardiovascular disease and a national trial to co-create and test the clinical and cost-effectiveness of culturally responsive, multilingual digital health resources in 10 languages.
Tania has a PhD in nutrition epidemiology (MEDIS-Australia study), which examined associations between lifestyle and sociocultural characteristics of first-generation Greek Australian long-term migrants, their adherence to a Mediterranean diet pattern and successful ageing compared to counterparts living in Greece.
Food industry failing to meet Government’s Health Star Rating targets
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Guunu-maana team win 2025 NHMRC Research Quality Award
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Creeping rates of poor mental health show depressed, anxious state is ‘new normal’ for half of Australian women
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Dr Vikash R Keshri
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Vikash R Keshri is Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. He has completed MBBS and MD in community medicine from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Wardha in India, and a short course in Health Policy Analysis from Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Vikash has around 10 years of experience in public health and health systems besides a couple of years as a clinician. Prior to joining TGI, has worked extensively in various capacity in varied organizations, such as missionary hospital, Department of Community Medicine at MGIMS, FHI 360 for MP health sector reform project, State Resource Unit and Care INDIA in Bihar, the Centre for Health Policy at Asian Development Research Institute, Patna. He has experience of working closely with policymakers and health systems stakeholders in many states in India.
His professional and research interest revolve around health systems and policy research (HPSR), especially policy analysis, governance, human resource for health and organization of health services in resource-constrained settings. At TGI, he is working on improving recovery outcome of Burns survivors with a systems approach applying the HPSR lens.
Chronic Kidney Disease in Africa: Lived experiences and opportunities for improving systems of care
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Less frequent stroke monitoring is safe, effective, and frees up resources, study finds
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Advancing Inclusive Health Governance: Implementing the WHA77 Resolution on Social Participation for UHC, Health, and Well-being
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Joining Hands for a Healthy Future: Insights for Integrating Community Participation in Intersectoral Collaboration for Planetary Health
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Dr Sue Haupt
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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.
Thomas Gadsden
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Dr Thomas Gadsden is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Systems Science, The George Institute for Global Health, and a Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW Sydney.
His research focuses on health systems strengthening, with expertise in discrete choice experiments, evidence synthesis, and evaluation. His PhD research examined the design of appropriate incentives for community health workers in Indonesia.
Tom has held diverse roles across the health sector, including as a Public Health Officer Trainee at the NSW Ministry of Health, Health Financing Officer for the WHO Country Office in Lao PDR, and Australian Youth Ambassador for Development. He also worked as a youth worker in remote Aboriginal communities.
Tom has a strong track record of partnering with government stakeholders and has authored commissioned reports and policy briefs for Australian government agencies and the World Health Organization.