Inika Sharma is a research assistant working at the Meta Research and Evidence Synthesis Unit. Inika has a background in Psychology, having received her MSc in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology from King’s College London. Prior to that, she completed her undergraduate in Psychology (BA Hons) from the UC Berkeley. She has varied previous research experience, primarily in the fields of mental health and child development. Her research interests include effective and accessible interventions for mental illness that can be feasibly administered in LMIC (Low- and Middle-Income Country) settings. She has previously worked as a researcher at IIM Bangalore.

Jacek is a public health researcher in housing and health, consumer and community engagement in health research, injury prevention, LGBTIQ+ health, and maternal and neonatal health. They are currently undertaking a PhD in social housing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, as part of Guunu-Maana (Heal), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program. A focus on equity, meaningful community engagement, relationship-building and a decolonial approach underlie their ways of working in the research sphere.

Jacek joined The George Institute for Global Health in 2018, initially as a Project Officer supporting commissioned research, and the development of the Institute’s practice of consumer and community engagement in health research. In 2019 they were appointed as Research Associate in the Injury Program, and Coordinator of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.

In addition to research, Jacek is committed to leading organisational change. Jacek established and was Chair of the Institute’s first Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Working Group, spear-heading initiatives to improve cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, gender equity and LGBTQI+ inclusion. This included leading the implementation of The George Institute’s Athena SWAN Bronze Action Plan. Jacek has also led the development and launch of The George Institute’s Panel Pledge, now signed by 190 staff globally, established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness training and co-wrote the Statement from The George Institute on Black Lives Matter. Jacek currently sits as a member of the Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging working group and is an active member of the Justice, Equity and Dignity team at The George Institute.

Outside of The George Institute, Jacek is a community researcher on LGBTIQ+ health research, and since 2021 is a member of ACON’s Research Ethics Review.

Jagnoor is Senior Research Fellow, with a background in injury epidemiology. She has a conjoint appointment as Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW and an honorary Senior Lecturer appointment, School of Public Health University of Sydney, and The John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research.

Jagnoor’ s research interests are exploring the impact of injuries, assessing issues of equity and vulnerability in the distribution of the burden of injuries, evaluating potential interventions to reduce the burden of injuries in Australia, Africa and Asia and contributing to data for decision making in preventing injuries and improving recovery post-injury.

Her current research spans a broad range, including injury prevention, rehabilitation, health-related quality of life, economic impact and alternate systems of insurance with respect to injury, whiplash, and mild traumatic brain injury. She is passionate about creating new knowledge to best address the injury burden in low middle-income populations with competing for health needs. She is engaged in several projects in LMIC working on injury surveillance systems, road injuries, burns, falls and drowning.

Jaison Joseph is a Research Fellow at the George Institute, working in Health Systems and Equity unit, in a project "Assessing Equity of Universal Health Coverage in India: From Data to Decision-Making Using Mixed Methods". Jaison received his master’s degree in social work at the Mahatma Gandhi University Kerala. His work involves health systems strengthening to improve access to health care.

His research interest includes understanding the coverage and access to public health systems through a gender lens and generating practice-based evidence and knowledge for action. He has extensive experience working with national and state Ministry of Health in India in different capacities. Prior to joining The George Institute, Jaison was at the PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd providing technical support to National Health Authority as product manager of Central Grievance Redressal Management System of Pradhan Mantri- Jan Arogya Yojana

Jayanthi is an Advanced Certified SAS Programmer with a Masters in Molecular Science and Nanotechnology from Louisiana Tech University, Louisiana, USA and another Masters in Biotechnology from Bangalore University, India.

In the last three years, she has extensively worked on statistical reporting and analysis for several studies ranging from the therapeutic areas of pain management to cardiovascular diseases. She has programmed for various Phase II, III and IV clinical trials for FDA and EMEA submissions. She has worked with GlaxoSmithKline, India and Alpharma Pharmaceuticals, USA, prior to joining The George Institute in 2011.

Professor Jeffrey Lipman is a career Intensivist, having worked full-time in Intensive Care Units since 1979.  

He received his medical degree (MBBCh) from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and has specialist qualifications in anaesthesia (DA, FFA) and intensive care (FFA Crit Care, FCICM). Prior to moving to Australia in 1997 he was Head of ICU at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Currently he is Director of the Intensive Care Services (Royal Brisbane and Womens’ Hospital), Professor and Head of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Queensland. He also is the Executive Director of the Burns, Trauma, Critical Care Research Centre at this University. He has Adjunct Professorial appointments at Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney and the University of Witwatersrand.

His research interests include all aspects of infection management in intensive care. He has a special interest in the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics, an area in which he completed his MD through the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

He has published over 30 book chapters and over 450 peer-reviewed articles including in high impact journals like NEJM, JAMA and Lancet Infectious Diseases. He has supervised over a dozen PhDs, is Section Editor of a number of peer-reviewed journals and reviews for many more. 

He currently holds dozens of peer-reviewed grants including 4 from NHMRC. Over the recent past the accumulated worth of these grants is over $10 million.  

He has been an invited speaker to over 100 Congresses Nationally and Internationally, being a Keynote speaker in many countries around the world.

He has been the recipient of a number of National and International awards for his service to Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Jessica Gong is an honorary Senior Fellow in the Women’s Health Program at The George Institute for Global Health, UK, in partnership with Imperial College London. She is also a Research Fellow in data science and epidemiology at University College London.

Jessica completed her PhD at The George Institute for Global Health, focusing on understanding the sex differences in dementia and cognitive decline. After the completion of her PhD, Jessica continues her research in characterising the molecular signatures of the exposome, including environmental, social, and biomedical factors, to better understand the mechanisms involved in dementia and brain-related outcomes, using high-dimensional and large-scale datasets. Jessica’s broad research interests include brain health, equity in health data, omics, and causal inference.

Jessica has previously worked as a data consultant for the World Health Organization during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Pacific region. Jessica also worked on research projects in brain health, neuroscience, and health equity at various research institutes around the world, including the Karolinska Institutet, Columbia University, World Health Organization Europe, and the University of Melbourne. Jessica has an MSc in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc in neuroscience from the University of Melbourne

John Chalmers has an outstanding record in hypertension research, both fundamental and clinical. His groundbreaking research on the role of the brain in the development of hypertension led to his election to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science and helped establish Flinders University as a leading international centre in hypertension and neuroscience research.

His studies on the treatment of high blood pressure for the prevention of heart attack and stroke have changed the way patients are treated throughout the world. His work has been recognised through many awards including the Wellcome Medal, the RT Hall Prize of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, The Zanchetti Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Society of Hypertension and the Volhard Medal of the International Society of Hypertension.

He has been President or Chairman of the Australian Society of Medical Research, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the WHO Expert Committee on Hypertension, the International Society of Hypertension and the Scientific Advisory Board of the World Heart Federation.

Professor Chalmers' contribution to medical science has been acknowledged through the award of many Honorary Doctoral degrees and extensive appointments on national and international boards and advisory committees. He was appointed a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) in 1991 and an Officer in the National Order of Merit of France in 2010.

John Chalmers remains an active researcher at The George Institute Australia, where he is a principal investigator on many research grants and Chair of steering committees for major studies, mentors young clinical researchers from around the world, and continues to publish and lecture prolifically. 

John joined The George Institute in March 2014 and has since contributed to a variety of academic and business projects in Australia, in China and with George Clinical.  His current work with the Renal and Metabolic Division includes a prospective national cohort study of Dialysis Outcomes in India, and an epidemiological study of chronic kidney disease of unknown origin in Sri Lanka.

In 2015 John convened the Steering Committee and chaired the Judges Panel for the Affordable Dialysis Prize. From 2017-2022 John played a part in the establishment and leadership of Ellen Medical Devices Pty Ltd, a new Australian company founded to build and test a prototype of the winning entry.

John is a Senior Project Officer with the Cardiovascular Division.  He is working on the Consumer Navigation of Electronic Cardiovascular Tools (CONNECT) study. This study is assessing a multi-faceted, consumer-focussed e-health strategy to assist people to lower their risks of a cardiovascular disease (CVD) event.

Professor John A Myburgh AO, is the Director, Professoriate at the George Institute for Global Health.

He is also Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of New South Wales and Senior Intensive Care Physician at the St George Hospital, Sydney.

He holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Investigator Grant Fellowship and an honorary Professorial appointment at the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

He has an extensive research record of accomplishment over 30 years and is regarded as a national and international expert in catecholamine neurophysiology and pharmacology, trials of clinical management of traumatic brain injury, fluid resuscitation and in the development and co-ordination of over 40 clinical trials in Intensive Care Medicine.

He has published over 275 refereed research publications, (including 12 papers in the New England Journal of Medicine) and 45 book chapters and monographs. His current h-index is 44, calculated from 244 publications in SCOPUS, yielding over 15500 citations, with a citation trajectory of 900 to 2200 citations per annum from 2010 to the present.

He has received over $48M grant funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. In addition to other national and international grants, total cumulative research funding to the present is over A$87M.

He has delivered over 400 presentations at national and international scientific meetings since 1994, including over 50 plenary presentations at major scientific congresses.

He is a Foundation Member and Past-Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre at the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. 

He has made a substantive contribution to education in Intensive Care Medicine, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels over the last 25 years. He was instrumental in establishing the College of Intensive Care Medicine, serving as a Fellowship examiner for twelve years, on the Board for ten years and as the first elected President from 2010-2012.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science and served on the Council of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine for six years and as Secretary-General from 2017-2019.

In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday honours, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medicine as an intensive care medical practitioner, educator and researcher, and as an international innovator in patient management

John’s career started in science, with a PhD in nuclear physics from the University of Melbourne. This was followed by a number of IT leadership roles in various industries, including insurance, ISP, defense and aerospace and global professional services.