Professor Anne Mills is Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Health Economics and Policy. She has degrees from Oxford University (MA), Leeds University (Diploma), and London University (PhD).

After two years as Overseas Development Institute Fellow and Economist in the Ministry of Health in Malawi, Professor Mills spent three years at the University of Leeds studying health planning in the NHS and moved to the LSHTM in 1979. She has researched and published widely in the fields of health economics and health systems in low- and middle-income countries and continues to be involved in research on financial protection in South Africa, Tanzania, India and Thailand. Professor Mills continues to be involved in supporting capacity development in health economics in universities, research institutes and governments.

She has been involved in numerous policy initiatives, including WHO's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and the 2009 High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Finance for Health Systems. Professor Mills has a CBE for services to medicine, is a Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2009, she received the Prince Mahidol Award in the field of medicine. In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 2015 she was made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours, for services to international health.

Anshuman is the Quality Assurance Officer with the CORE India. His role involves the implementation of Quality Assurance processes in collaboration with researchers. He completed MPH with a WHO-TDR fellowship in Implementation Science from BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, Dhaka and M.Sc. in Environmental Studies from Nalanda University, Rajgir, with a small grant from Bihar Government for Policy Research Work.

Before joining The George Institute, Anshuman has worked in Accenture, Cognizant, Icon Clinical Research, Community Empowerment Lab, Pragya NGO and Outline India. Some of the projects he has worked on were on person centred maternal care in health care facilities, evaluation of clinical quality improvement programs, translation of policies etc. His earlier roles also included clinical data management, capacity building, training management and supporting projects for documentation audits.

Anthony Sunjaya is a medical doctor from Indonesia and Honorary Fellow at the Respiratory and Health Systems Division, The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London and a Visiting Researcher at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.

His research focuses on cardiorespiratory diseases, complex chronic diseases, primary care, and digital health especially the development, validation and translation of decision support systems, AI, and virtual care. He has a special interest in supporting universal health coverage, improving care, especially in low-resource settings and primary care through the use of innovative evidence-based solutions.

He is Chief Investigator of the Breathlessness Rapid Evaluation and THErapy (BREATHE) trial funded by the Australian Government Medical Research Future Fund to optimise the assessment and management of chronic breathlessness in primary care through implementation of a clinical decision support system for breathlessness across 40 GP practices in Australia building upon work during his PhD which was supported by the UNSW Scientia PhD program.

He is currently Chair, Primary Care SIG, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ); Chair, Membership Committee, Society of Medical Decision Making (SMDM); Vice-Chair of the Digital Transformation Leadership working group in the International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health (ISfTeH), and Editorial Advisory Board member of the Annals of Family Medicine. He is also an active social entrepreneur and co-founder of BantingMed, a diabetes digital health startup.

He was previously President of Postgraduate Council UNSW and ASEAN Society UNSW, a delegate to the 2023 Group of 7 Youth Summit in Japan and has contributed to reports for the World Health Organization and Asthma Australia.

Professor Rodgers has a track record in cardiovascular disease prevention, innovation and public-private partnerships, with an interest in scale-able interventions to address major risks to health. He is currently Acting Director of the Cardiovascular Division at The George Institute, Australia and Chair of Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of London.

After graduating in medicine in the United Kingdom he trained in epidemiology and public health in New Zealand. He was the Principal Author of the 2002 World Health Report, the main annual publication for WHO. Professor Rodgers has led developments of an affordable four-in-one cardiovascular combination pill ('polypill'). He led a clinical trial program in economically developed and developing countries, funded by the Wellcome Trust, European Union and others.  

Professor Rodgers also developed a world first cell phone based smoking cessation programme for youth, which disseminated proven health support messages in an age-appropriate, affordable medium.  Over 6,000 patients were involved in clinical trials that demonstrated a 50% increase in quit rates. The service has been rolled out by Departments of Health in NZ, UK and India, with over 2 million users to date. A follow-on program delivering cognitive behavioural therapy for depression prevention was successfully trialled among 1,200 at-risk teenagers.

Aritri Dutta works at the George Institute India as an Assistant Research Manager within research support services- CORE India. Her role encompasses monitoring various funding agencies and disseminating relevant funding calls to researchers. She supports Research Manager in coordinating with research teams, finance and administration to develop proposals for submission to regional and global funding organizations and also coordinates research team meetings, workshops and training programs.
After completing a PhD in Immunology and a short postdoc she joined DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance and worked as a research administrator for more than two years. She was briefly associated with the Research and Development wing of IIT Kanpur where she managed the fund and research portfolio before joining The Institute. Aritri is interested in  development of a robust research management system within and among Indian institutes.
 

Dr Arpita Ghosh works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Head Biostatistics and Data Science. Arpita received her doctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and post-doctoral training at the National Cancer Institute.

Her work involves quantitative research cutting across multiple areas of public health including childhood vaccination, nutrition, elderly health, and chronic diseases, particularly cancer. Arpita has extensive experience of working with secondary data sets and of conducting epidemiological studies and randomized trials. Her current research interests include causal inference for observational studies, adaptive trial designs for multi-stage studies, and record linkage.

Prior to joining The George Institute, Arpita was at the Public Health Foundation of India as a Research Scientist.

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

Dr Kumar is a physician having a postgraduate degree in clinical pharmacology and an experienced medical researcher with a more than 14 years of cumulative academic-industry experience. In addition to Dr Kumar’s 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.

Dr Balaji Gummidi is a Senior Project Manager at The George Institute for Global Health India. Dr Gummidi has over 7 years of experience in epidemiological data analysis and effective reporting. He has a blend of experience in project implementation, evaluation, research designs, data analysis, quality control, scientific writing and publications.

Dr Gummidi finished his Bachelor's degree in Dental Surgery at NRT university of health science, completed his Masters of Public Health from Jodhpur National University, Rajasthan and MBA in Hospital Management from GITAM University, Visakhapatnam. He has worked as Research Assistant in Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Maulana Azad Medical College and as a Research Fellow under Public Health Foundation of India.

Dr Gummidi has received various prestigious scholarships from Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP), Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Fogarty Global Health, National Structured Operational Research and Training IniTiative (Sort-IT), American Thoracic Society (ATS).

Baldeep joined The George Institute in November 2015 and currently works as a Senior Project Manager for the INTEGRATE Study. She has 15 years of experience in project management in the higher education sector. Over the last ten years, Baldeep spearheaded a landmark, Trans-Tasman medical education evaluation and workforce planning project of national and international significance.

Baldeep has a Bachelor of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, an Honours degree in Psychology and a Masters in International Studies.

Belinda is a research fellow with the Health System Science division and her work focuses on value based health care and evaluation of new models of care in Australia. 

She completed her PhD through the George Institute's injury division and UNSW in 2021. This research adopted a health systems approach to evaluate health care services and access for patients with chronic eye disease. Belinda has played a key role in the design, implementation and evaluation of the Western Sydney Community Eye Care (C-EYE-C) model of care as both a project manager, and through her PhD studies.

Prior to starting her PhD, Belinda has worked in a variety of research and service delivery roles with a focus on chronic and infectious, infectious disease, Aboriginal health, and primary care. Belinda has collaborated with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) to design and conduct research projects which address the local needs and priorities of the community.

Ben is a doctor from the UK and Advanced Trainee in nephrology who is completing a PhD at the George Institute. The focuses of the PhD is improving the outcomes and economics of treating chronic kidney disease with a particular interest in low-and-middle-income countries. Ben is also involved with the Affordable Dialysis Project – an initiative run by The George Institute to develop a system that can provide low cost dialysis to those who currently cannot afford it. He works as clinical advisor for this project.

Justin joined The George Institute in 2020 as Chief Financial Officer, bringing with him over 25 years of international pharmaceutical experience in both a commercial and financial capacity.  His areas of expertise span investor relations, finance, strategic planning, M&A, corporate governance and marketing. 

Prior to The George Institute, Justin was the CEO of First Pharma, a boutique privately backed pharmaceutical company.  Before this, he held several senior executive positions at AstraZeneca both in Singapore and Australia.  This included the role of Area Finance Director – Asia, Sales & Marketing Director – Australia, and Chief Financial Officer of Australia.

Justin is a member of ASCPA and holds a Commerce degree from Macquarie University.  He has also undertaken various post graduate leadership programmes at the London Business School, INSEAD and most recently MIT.