Renu John works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Research Fellow on the LIVING study – a lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention in women with prior gestational diabetes.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Dental Surgery from Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences and a Master of Public Health from Jodhpur National University.

Before working with George, she was an Occupational Health Officer and her research interest lies in occupational and environmental health, women and child health and health promotion.

Richard Lindley is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Sydney Medical School (Westmead Hospital Clinical School), University of Sydney. His career has focused on finding reliable new evidence to improve treatments for older people, particularly stroke.

He continues in hospital clinical practice (acute geriatric medicine, rehabilitation and stroke at Blacktown Hospital, Sydney) and runs a large portfolio of clinical trials and projects within different groups at The George Institute.

He is an Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal on Ageing and an Honorary Overseas Member of the British Association of Neurologists. He has published widely on clinical aspects of stroke, vascular disease, vaccination, infectious disease and geriatric medicine.

Ritika Khan joined the Biostatistics department at The George Institute India as a Research Assistant in 2024. She completed her Master’s in Statistics from University of Calcutta. Prior to joining, Ritika had worked as an intern at The George Institute. She works across different projects and is responsible for providing statistical support related to study design, sample size calculation, analysis, and interpretation of findings. Ritika is interested in learning more about different therapeutic areas in clinical and public health and in the application of statistical techniques to problems in this field. 

Professor Norton is one of the two Founding Directors of The George Institute for Global Health. She has published widely on women’s health, global health, and injury.

Robyn has had a long-standing commitment to improving the health of women and girls and co-established The George Institute’s Global Women’s Health Program. This program of work takes a life course approach to addressing the leading causes of death and disability for women and girls, especially non-communicable diseases, and injuries.

Robyn currently co-leads work in both Australia and the UK focused on the development of policies to ensure increased representation of women and girls as participants in health and medical research, and the disaggregation of data by sex and gender. This work led to the establishment of Australia’s first Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine in March 2024, in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW and Deakin University.

Robyn was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2016 and made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2017. In 2021, she was appointed as a member of Chief Executive Women and, in 2022, was appointed to the Australian Women’s Health Advisory Council where she is also a member of its research sub-committee.

In 2024, Robyn was appointed Chair of the inaugural Advisory Board for Franklin Women, an Australian social enterprise that connects individuals and organisations committed to creating a health and medical research sector where women thrive. She is also Chair of the inaugural Advisory Board of Imperial College’s Network of Excellence in Women’s Health and in 2024, joined the board of directors of the Black Dog Institute, UNSW Sydney.

Professor Rodney Phillips is Professor Emeritus at UNSW, Sydney and an Honorary Fellow of Oxford’s Pembroke College.

Rodney is an immunologist specialising in HIV and infectious diseases. He was Professor of Medicine and Head of Research and Associate Dean of Oxford University’s Division of Medical Sciences. He also served as Vice-Dean of Medical Sciences, Director of Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Co-Director of Oxford Martin Institute for Emerging Infections.

Rodney joined the Board in May 2017 and is a Member of the Risk Committee.

Ms. Rong LUO joined the George Institute for Global Health in January 2013 as research fellow. She is engaged in several research projects related to NCD, including stroke, mHealth systematic review and women health.

Ms. Rong LUO graduated from College of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University and got her master degree in 2007. From 2007 to 2012, she worked for the Office of Disease Control and Health Emergency Response and Office for China-US Collaboration Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control (China CDC). At China CDC, she worked as an project officer and participated in coordination for several major infectious disease epidemics control and health emergency (2008 Hand Foot Mouth Disease Epidemics Control/2008 Wenchuan Earthquake Health Emergency Response/2009 H1N1 Epidemics Control etc.), project management (including strategic plan and monitoring and evaluation), project implement (risk communication survey and study), capacity building and foreign affairs etc.

Ruth Freed is the Program Manager for two programs, Brain Health & GMRx2 (hypertension polypill) and is responsible for operational leadership including strategic planning, funding management, resourcing and oversight of delivery of several research projects in line with the programs' goals. For the GMRx2 program, Ruth is supporting academic activities related to global commercial development of the GMRx2 product.

Ruth has more than 25 years' clinical trial experience in the hospital, academic and pharmaceutical sectors, joining TGI in 2009 working her way up in project operations roles and most recently held the role of Head of the Academic Project Operations group for over 2 years. Prior to this she worked for Australian company Pharmaxis Ltd on drug registration trials and at GlaxoSmithKline, UK in drug safety. She has spent the last 15 years predominantly working on large scale drug intervention multinational cardiovascular endpoint trials mainly in stroke neurology and is acting as the Global Project Manager for the TRIDENT trial, a secondary prevention stroke randomised controlled trial in 1500 participants in 10 countries.

Professor Ruth Peters completed her PhD and NIHR Post-doctoral Fellowship at Imperial College London before relocating to Australia in 2018. Dr Peters' research combines clinical trials, evidence synthesis, and epidemiology to understand and treat risk factors for dementia and frailty. Her work has influenced WHO and national and international clinical practice guidelines, is used by health advocacy bodies and is regularly featured in the media, for example, Study finds evidence lowering blood pressure later in life can cut dementia risk

Prof Peters has been awarded >$10 million in research funding, is widely cited and is regularly invited to talk at conferences and scientific meetings. She has a particular passion for the two areas that show the most potential for helping healthy brain ageing, multidomain risk reduction and the treatment of Hypertension.

In multidomain risk reduction, Prof Peters is leading the first large multisite trial to test intergenerational practice, a novel multidomain intervention bringing older adults and preschool children together, combining physical activity, cognitive and social engagement to reduce cognitive decline and frailty and co-designed with community members.

In Hypertension, Dr Peters is currently leading an exciting new research stream at The George Institute for Global Health, including innovative clinical trial and evidence synthesis projects in blood pressure lowering, dementia and frailty and has an established international reputation since her early PhD work as cognitive function lead for the award-winning multinational Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET, HYVET -COG).

Associate Professor Ruth Webster is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute. As a researcher, she has a particular interest in the development of novel strategies to bridge the evidence-practice gap in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. She is actively involved in trials of various types of polypill strategies, as well as improving the use of technology in Australian general practice.

Sabhya is a Research Assistant at The George Institute for Global Health, currently working on the TReAT Trial project—a project to develop the m-health intervention for monitoring the rehabilitation phase of knee replacement patients. 

She holds a bachelor’s degree in dental surgery from Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Memorial Health Sciences and Ayush University of Chhattisgarh and a master’s degree in public health from the Indian Institute of Public Health.

She has worked with various organisations namely Garnet Global, Concept Realisation, Saha Manthran. She has also worked as a COVID-19 medical volunteer at MAMTA-HMIC.

Her research interests are in primary health care, non-communicable diseases, particularly mental health, reproductive, women's and child's health, and health system strengthening.

Sanne Peters is an Associate Professor at The George Institute for Global Health and a Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. She holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht.

Sarah is Chief People Officer at The George Institute. She is an established executive People & Culture leader who has broad international experience and a successful track record of over 20 years spent in the corporate, professional and financial services sectors.

Sarah is skilled in articulating purpose and vision and in designing and executing strategies to improve organisational effectiveness. She is passionate about working at the leadership level to transform and realise the potential of an organisation through its people, purpose and vision. 

Recognised as a change agent, Sarah is able to transform team and business performance within HR and across businesses. Her customer-centred approach is combined with a strong commitment to teamwork, integrity and respect.

Sarah holds a BA (Psychology & Social Policy) and Masters of Industrial Relations & HR Management. She is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.