Georgia White
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Georgia is a Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor for the Impact and Engagement team at The George Institute, based in the Sydney office. Georgia supports the Institute’s advocacy and political engagement activities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Her main programmes of activity include women’s health, preventive health, and improving health systems to achieve equity.
Georgia White is an experienced policy professional focused on global health both within government and the non-profit sector. Prior to joining The George Institute, she worked for several years at a global non-profit focused on HIV and TB in New York City. She has also worked as a senior policy adviser within the Victorian Government and in Cambodia as part of Australia’s official development assistance program. Georgia has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Master in Health Policy from The University of Sydney.
Professor Michael Kidd AO
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Professor Michael Kidd AO FAHMS is the Chief Medical Officer for Australia. He also holds a joint appointment as the foundation Director of the International Centre for Future Health Systems at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and as Professor of Global Primary Care and Future Health Systems at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow of Green Templeton College, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Primary Health Care.
He is a member of the Avant Foundation Board, a Governor with the Board of the Centenary Institute, and Patron of the Australian General Practice Research Foundation, General Practice Student Network, and General Practice Registrars Association. He is a past president of both The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and the World Organization of Family Doctors.
Michael joined the Board in December 2023.
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Consumer and Community Advisory Committee
About the Consumer and Community Advisory Committee (CCAC)
The George Institute for Global Health, Australia's Consumer and Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) has been providing consumer leadership since December 2021. The Committee functions at the organisational level and works with Institute leaders.
The objective of the CCAC is to ensure the research The George Institute does is relevant, important and makes the biggest difference to the Australian population.
The CCAC has been instrumental in developing a CCI framework and strategy for the Institute. These resources guide the work of the CCI Program, and the development and engagement of the Consumer and Community Network.
Aim1. Inform the Institute’s programs of work including identifying areas of need within the community2. Inform CCI strategies and support functions to facilitate partnerships between researchers, consumers, and community members3. Promote the Institute’s work, ensuring that relevant communic
Consumer and Community Involvement Program
The CCI Program was established to ensure meaningful and fit-for-purpose involvement of those most impacted by health research, as guided by the NHMRC statement on Consumer and Community Involvement:
“The active involvement of consumers and community members in health and medical research benefits the quality and direction of research. Consumer and community involvement is about research being carried out with or by consumers and community members rather than to, about or for them.
The CCI Program recognises the valuable insights and expertise of those with lived experience and that members of the community can contribute to all areas of research. The Program supports the integration of consumer and community members in all levels of health and medical research.
Role of Consumer and Community Involvement program
The CCI Program is a centralised support service for consumers and researchers. It provides the following services for the George Institute:
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