Dr Meena Thuraisingham is Founder and Principal at BoardQ and TalentInvest. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Shared Value Project and Linden Art Gallery.

Meena has previously held executive roles at ANZ, including Global Head of Leadership and Talent and Head of Human Resources, Corporate & Institutional Bank. She has also held senior consultant roles with two global consulting firms.

Meena joined the Board in January 2018 and is a Member of the Risk Committee.

A/Professor Meg Jardine is a Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health.

Her research interests centre on preventing the progression and complications of kidney disease and diabetes. She has a particular interest in using innovative trial designs to better generate evidence to improve outcomes. Dr Jardine leads the RESOLVE and BEAT-Calci trials and was the Global Scientific Lead of the CREDENCE study and CI of the ACTIVE and FINESSE trials. Her advocacy for kidney disease is pursued through memberships of the Board of the Kidney Health Initiative (KHI), the Executive Committee of the international KDIGO guidelines group and the International Society of Nephrology Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACTS) core committee. 

Meg Jardine is a practising physician and nephrologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Dr Menglu Ouyang is a research fellow at The George Insititute for Global Health and Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW. Her research field is in stroke, including acute care, clinical management, health system and implementation science. She has extensive experience in secondary analysis in large international clinical trials and implementation research. Her research contributes to filling the knowledge gap in stroke clinical guidelines development, informs implementation strategies and supports promoting the care embedded in existing processes in low- and middle-income countries.

She is the leading investigator for the process evaluation alongside the large international trials funded by MRC and NHMRC, to explore the feasibility, acceptability and implementation of evidence-based care. She also chairs the monthly Process Evaluation/Health System Research Seminar at The George Institute. She is in the UNSW Cardiac, Vascular, Metabolic Medicine Early Career Researcher Committee and the editor board of Cerebrovascular Diseases and Frontiers Public Health.

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.

Min Jun is Scientia Associate Professor and Program Lead at the George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney.

Min leads a program of research focused on understanding the impact of clinical management strategies in people with kidney disease and its related complications. He has developed and leads international projects using large clinical trial and real-world, population based data sources.

Min holds a PhD (2012) and MScMed(ClinEpi) in clinical epidemiology from the University of Sydney, and a MSc(by research) and BSc(Hon) from UNSW Sydney. He was previously an NHMRC Early Career Fellow (2013-2016) based in Canada (University of Calgary), co-funded by two additional competitive federal/provincial Canadian fellowships (CIHR/AIHS). Min's research track record includes >100 publications (including in top-ranked journals e.g. BMJ, Lancet, JACC), >$5.1M in research funding from top-level funding agencies (e.g. NHMRC). To date, 72% of his work is published in top 10% journals worldwide, has been cited >4500 times including in some 24 international clinical practice guidelines across various fields.

Min is actively involved in mentoring, training and supervising research students and fellows. He currently serves as Associate Editor (Global Health) for Kidney and Blood Pressure Research and has been involved in the development of clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with kidney disease in Australia and internationally.

Abdul Salam is a clinical and public health researcher interested in cardiovascular disease prevention. He is particularly interested in developing, evaluating, and implementing novel low-cost pharmacological interventions. He has experience in clinical trials, systematic reviews and qualitative health research. Abdul Salam has a Master of Pharmacy (Pharmacology) from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, and a PhD in Medicine from The University of Sydney, Australia.

Ameer has a back ground in sociology. Prior to joining George Institute he served as Field Manager in the Administrative Staff College of India and Public Health Foundation of India. He has more than ten years experience in planning and managing large scale population based public health research studies.

He has particular expertise in community mobilization, site assessments, field management, and participatory mapping. He is currently working on the SMART Health project.

Murari is currently working as a Statistical Programmer in the George Institute or Global Health. He is an engineering graduate with Masters in Clinical Research from Medical University of South Carolina, USA. Additionally, he holds a Diploma in Clinical Data Management and Global Base and Advanced SAS Certification. He has 6 years of experience in Clinical Research domain and has worked extensively in Clinical Data Management and Statistical Programming. He has worked in Preterm Birth Cohort, Comprehensive National Nutritional Survey, Breast cancer and Tuberculosis Vaccine trial.  His area of expertise includes database programming and Biostatistics.

Namrata Nath Kumar is a Clinical Research Associate for the Renal and Metabolic Division. She has worked in the division since 2013, and is passionate about clinical trials to help improve patients’ quality of life. Her work on the SHARP-ER study introduced her to clinical research operations, where she was involved in coordination of site finance, patient surveys and data linkage processes with MBS and PBS datasets. She currently manages sites across Australia and New Zealand for the PRESERVE study, a double-blinded randomised controlled trial in the Cardiology setting. Through this study Namrata has become familiar with HREC and Governance processes across both countries, in addition to investigational product accountability, central labs and safety processes. In 2016 Namrata commenced on the STARRT-AKI study, which has widened her knowledge base to include Intensive Care clinical research. Her monitoring role on this project takes on responsibilities in site feasibility, start-up, initiation, and data management. While learning and growing in the clinical research field, Namrata sees herself pursuing further studies in public health and managing research projects in the near future.

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.

Coming from a Software Engineering background with several years’ of experience, Nipuna was offered a UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship in 2018 under Associate Professor Julie Brown, to work on a digital intervention as a mobile app to help parents prevent falls in children < 1 year and the intervention is to be developed based on behaviour theories, thus working as a Digital Behaviour Change Intervention (DBCI).

Nipuna is passionate about Digital Behaviour Change Intervention development, to improve people’s health and looks forward to exploring the potential of DBCIs for public health problems.

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 Lead 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.