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CREST - Stakeholder Engagement and Advocacy

Our Impact and engagement team excels at facilitating meaningful advocacy, consultations and stakeholder engagement with decision-makers and the communities they serve. We bring key stakeholders together to co-create impactful, context-driven policy recommendations and solutions that drive real changes to healthcare. Our approach supports both retrospective and prospective policy consultations on priority issues including chronic disease, health equity and access. We develop comprehensive policy briefs and foster inclusive dialogue, turning evidence and research into actionable outcomes for health policies and programs. Our services include: Stakeholder consultation and strategic engagement Organisation, convening and facilitation of dialogues and meetings Policy briefs Community engagement and involvement strategies Advocacy support for evidence-informed policies Who we work with: Local, state and national governments Public

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

Centre for Research, Evidence and Skills Training (CREST)

We provide research, evidence, evaluations and training solutions on a consultancy basis to help leaders in government, industry, and community sectors navigate complex health challenges and improve health services for people and communities. Working as one team across our offices in Australia, India and the UK, and leveraging our global network of partners, we will bring together the right mix of expertise you need. Our collaborative consulting model, coordinated by our Centre for Research, Evidence and Skills Training, utilises our extensive global academic and operational expertise and ensures rigorous quality assurance. With a proven track record in high-quality research and impact across diverse fields - including chronic conditions, injury and trauma, health systems, food policy, women’s health, and health equity- our team is well-placed to collaborate with you to support informed, evidence-based decision-making and capacity building. Our experts hold advanced academic a

Health systems strengthening for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

Program overview: Our global Health Systems Strengthening for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) program is focused on the conduct of multidisciplinary collaborative research to support countries’ strategic progression towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3.8: Universal access to high-quality essential health care. Led by Dr Laura Downey, our global team comprises health economists, health policy specialists, epidemiologists, statisticians, and clinician researchers. We have active research and advocacy partnerships with academia, civil society organizations, government departments, health service providers, and multilateral organizations in every continent, where our research predominantly focuses on taking a primary healthcare approach to ensure that everyone can equitably access the essential health services they require without experiencing financial hardship in doing so. The types of research we conduct fall broadly into the following domains: Designing an

Dr Devaki Nambiar

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Devaki Nambiar is Program Director, Healthier Societies Strategy at the George Institute for Global Health India with appointments at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA.

She is a Health Policy and Systems Researcher (HPSRer) with over two decades of experience working in India and other Low- and Middle-Income Countries on decision-maker demand-driven research, postgraduate teaching in HPSR, as well as technical assistance with an emphasis on community action for health, social exclusion, health equity and health for all. She is a former Fulbright, Fogarty, and NIH scholar, and Fellow of the Wellcome Trust/Department of Biotechnology India Alliance. She advises the WHO on health inequality monitoring, national programme re-orientation, and guideline development to leave no one behind.

She serves on the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on Improving Population Health post COVID-19, the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare, and advises Lancet Commissions on Women and Cancer as well as on Reimagining India's Health System. She is a member of the People's Health Movement and the Medico Friends Circle. She also serves on the Board of Health Systems Global and the Research Advisory Board of the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru, India. Dr. Nambiar received her doctorate in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009 and is a recipient of an Emerging Leader Award from the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Neena Joshi

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Neena Joshi is a Senior Project Manager at The George Institute for Global Health. She leads the Social Participation for Health, Engagement, Research and Empowerment (SPHERE) consortium, which brings together civil society, health and academic organizations providing support for social participation and community action for health in and around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Neena is a global health professional with over five years of experience working at international organizations, think tanks and in academia.

Neena was previously part of the UHC2030 Secretariat, and she has a strong background in multilateral engagement and global health research. Neena holds a Master of Science in Global Health from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and is originally from Chicago, Illinois. She is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

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Professor Bruce Neal

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Professor Neal is a UK-trained physician who has 25 years’ experience in clinical, epidemiological, and public health research with a focus on heart disease, stroke and diabetes. 

He has a longstanding interest in high blood pressure and diabetes and the potential for both clinical interventions and changes in the food supply to deliver health gains.  His work has been characterised by its focus on collaboration, quantitation, translation and impact.  

He holds professorial appointments at UNSW Sydney, Imperial College London, and an honorary appointment at the University of Sydney.  He has published some 450 scientific papers and since 2016 has been identified by Thomson Reuters as one of ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’ - an acknowledgement bestowed on just a few thousand researchers across all disciplines worldwide.  

He has deep expertise in the conduct of large-scale clinical trials addressing cardiovascular disease but has also done a significant body of work addressing food policy issues related to sugars, fats, portion size and food labelling.

Bitesize: What if we could switch the salt to reduce blood pressure?

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Bitesize: Why is eating less salt important for heart health

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Introducing The George Institute’s COP 28 Delegation

We are delighted to announce that The George Institute will be sending a delegation of experts and advocates to the Conference of Parties (COP 28), the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held from 30 November to 12 December in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Having attended COP for the first time in 2022 with the Imperial College London delegation, The George Institute values the opportunity to engage with this unique platform for global collaboration, policy development, networking, knowledge transfer, and advocacy, all of which are essential for advancing evidence-informed action on planetary health. Meet the COP28 delegation We are thrilled to have a diverse and cross-disciplinary team attending from Australia, The United Kingdom (UK) and India – collectively advocating for world leaders to centre the voices of communities whose health, wellbeing and futures have been most impacted, ensuring they are at the heart of national climate action plans and debat