Allison has been working in clinical research since 1992 and managing clinical trials since 2001, working in the fields of hypertension, preeclampsia, HIV, obesity and respiratory medicine. Allison has worked in hospital settings (St George Hospital, Sydney; Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK; Groote Schuur Hospital, RSA) and University/Medical Research Institutes (Kirby and The George Institute).

Since working at The George Institute, she has worked as a Senior Project Manager and Operational Lead in APO and now holds an academic position in the Respiratory Programme. Allison has managed project teams to deliver multiple clinical trials and research projects such as TASCS, ECOS, PACE in COPD and now the BREATHE CDSS.

Aman Rastogi works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Biostatistician. He has Postgraduate degrees from Lucknow University and Christian Medical College Vellore. Prior to joining the George Institute in 2023, Aman has worked at organisations including CARE India and John Snow India where his work involved quantitative research related to maternal and child health, family planning and vaccination. Aman has experience of developing database architectures, monitoring and evaluation plans and conducting epidemiologic studies. His current work involves helping with the design, analysis and statistical reporting for clinical trials and observational studies in chronic kidney disease and nutrition.

Amarnath is a  public health researcher with a demonstrated history of working with UNICEF, ICMR, and CMC Vellore. He has expertise in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Dental Public Health.

As Communications Manager, Ana is responsible for developing and implementing a communications strategy for The George Institute for Global Health in partnership with Imperial College London in the UK.

She produces high-quality communications that support TGI's research, advocacy and development work both internally and externally, and that raise The George Institute profile through media and digital channels (notably via our UK website and Twitter). This includes the staging of successful events to further disseminate our research findings and underline implications for policy and practice.

Through building relationships with UK-led global health advocacy groups, and a range of academic, health and media stakeholders within the Institute and beyond, Ana supports the strategic objectives of the wider institute, which aim to improve the health of millions of people, particularly those living in disadvantaged circumstances.

Cat is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the Institute of Health Informatics at UCL and specialty registrar (ST5) in London. She is also an Honorary Lecturer at King's College London and The George Institute for Global Health, UK, in partnership with Imperial College London. She is also an NIHR ARC NWL Improvement Leader Fellow in the 2023 cohort.

She completed medical school in Portugal in 2012 and moved to the UK inspired by her dream of working for the NHS. Although she initially started her specialty training in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Manchester, her long-term illness forced a sharp turn in her career. She completed her DPhil in the University of Oxford, simultaneously with an MSc in Public Health at King's College London. She started her specialty training in Public Health in August 2020 as NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at King's College London.

She has an insatiable curiosity and broad research interests, which explains why she has been involved in many different types of research over the years. She has finally committed to her two passions: climate & air pollution and health and gender inequalities. She co-leads the implementation of the Climate & Health Strategy with the Climate & Health Committee of the Faculty of Public Health; is chair of the Specialty Registrars’ Committee, which represents registrars nationwide in the Faculty of Public Health; and co-chair of the Academic Public Health Special Interest Group, which she co-founded in 2022. In addition, she is committed to Public Health education and has been actively teaching in the MPH at King's College London and University College London since 2020. She is also leading the European course on climate & health organised by the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), as she is member of the working group on climate and health.

Dr Andre Pascal Kengne  earned his MD degree from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. He did his residency training in internal medicine at the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital. In 2009, he obtained a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, the major focus of which was cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention.

Dr Kengne is a Fellow of the International Society of Hypertension, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia, The Julius Center for Health Science and Primary Care (Netherlands); member of the American Society of Hypertension, High blood pressure Council of Australia and many other local/regional societies. He is on the editorial board of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa and Pan-African Medical Journal, and serves as reviewer for several additional medical journals.

He has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic diseases, and clinical decision making, and has lectured in Cameroon and abroad on these topics. He has been involved in many research projects in Cameroon, Europe and in Australia, including the ADVANCE trial and the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration.

He joins the MRC South Africa after five consecutive years at the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, and a brief collaborative visit of six months at the Julius Centre for Health Science and Primary Care in Utrecht.

Dr Anis Ta'eed is the Head of Nephrology at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji, and the Director of the Fiji National Kidney Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, having trained and worked in Melbourne, Australia for over 10 years. Anis' interests are in acute nephrology, nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

Dr. Ankita Mukherjee is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute. Ankita holds the DBT/Wellcome India Alliance Early Career Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health. Her fellowship project DAYARA aims to co-create a mental health promotion intervention for Scheduled Tribe communities in Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh.  

Ankita also provides qualitative research support (process evaluation, formative evaluation) to several projects in the mental health programme, including SMART Mental Health and ARTEMIS, INDIGO and ANUMATI 2.0. In her work, she regularly interacts with communities, service providers and other stakeholders to understand their perspectives on projects and their implementation.

Her other interest is applying Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) to improve access to quality mental health care.

Ankita holds an M.Phil and PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Dr Anna Campain is a biostatistician with experience in health, medical and bioinformatics research.

She has worked extensively with routinely-collected health data, both linked and non-linked. Anna has a special interest in using routinely-collected health datasets to explore and understand health patterns in high-risk or vulnerable populations to inform treatments, approaches and behaviours. She is passionate about research that will be translated to end-user benefit through changes in clinical guidelines, health policy and resource management.

Joining The George Institute for Global Health in 2018, Anna brings over a decade of experience in applied statistics. As an applied statistician, Anna is passionate about using robust, appropriate and contemporary statistical methods to investigate clinically important research questions. Her experience to date has involved the application of advanced regression methods and machine learning techniques to chronic disease research, the use of accessible data visualisation methods to disseminate findings to a wide research audience, and regional, state and national health program evaluation and impact investigations.

Anna is HR & Communications Coordinator for the UK team. She is responsible for HR matters within the UK team, as well as supporting global HR projects and internal communications.

Outside of work, Anna is a qualified life coach and is studying a Masters in Psychology (Conversion). Anna has a strong interest in mental health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

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.