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.

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. 

After completion of her Masters, Sudha started her career in clinical research at Clinigene International Ltd, sister concerns of Biocon. She has worked in clinical research industry for the past five and a half years and was part of George Clinical for nearly four years.

Sudha has had experience in working on academic trials and seeks to pursue higher education and training in public health research, especially in the areas of non-communicable diseases including mental health and injuries.

She is currently involved in a study where mobile-based technology is being used to provide basic mental health care to scheduled tribe villages in rural Andhra Pradesh. 

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.