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    We are on a mission to improve global health. Through rigorous, high-quality research, we’re striving to achieve meaningful and lasting change on a local and global scale. 
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    Our research finds solutions to some of the world’s biggest health challenges in critical areas including women’s health, planetary health, and food policy. Within each program, individual projects target specific challenges, providing local solutions to improve global outcomes.   
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    Our high quality, rigorous research makes a real difference to people's health, particularly those facing the most barriers.
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Fuelling the big ideas in the healthy food revolution

The Ian Potter Foundation invests AUD $1.2million in The George Institute’s vision for a healthier world.

Supporting the future of health innovation

Soul Patts nurtures our future tech leaders to bring game-changing health solutions to life.

Laying the foundations for innovative healthcare solutions

The George Institute’s founders are building on their pioneering vision with a transformational, million-dollar investment.

CREST - Research training

Our globally recognised Research Training Programs blend academic rigour with practical, real-world application to build research capacity and drive evidence-based healthcare. Developed and delivered by experts at The George Institute for Global Health, these programs empower early career researchers, clinicians, public health professionals, clinical trial staff, and policymakers to lead impactful research across diverse health systems. Offered face-to-face, online, or in blended formats, each course is designed to be globally informed while tailored with regional context to ensure practical relevance. Whether undertaken individually or as part of a broader training pathway, these programs foster innovation, strengthen expertise, and support meaningful collaborations that advance global health outcomes. Our programs are ideal for: Clinicians and allied health professionals new to research Research managers and coordinators Policy makers and public health practitioners

Bridging research and policy to achieve progress on NCDs, gender equity, and UHC

News 15 Dec 2025

Professor Simone Pettigrew

Profile

Professor Simone Pettigrew is the Head of Food Policy. She has qualifications in Economics, Marketing, and Consumer Psychology. Her broad areas of expertise include behavioural psychology, health promotion, health policy, communications, social marketing, and intervention research.

Along with nutrition, her substantive areas of research include obesity, physical activity, alcohol consumption, smoking, active transport, and healthy ageing. Simone sits on numerous advisory committees and regularly performs research consultancies for NGO and government entities. To date, she has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers and produced more than 160 technical reports for NGOs and government departments.

See Professor Pettigrew's full CV here.

Why is Mongolia the stroke capital of the world and what can be done?

News 27 Apr 2023

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    The George Institute acknowledges First Peoples and the Traditional Custodians of the many lands upon which we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and thank them for ongoing custodianship of waters, lands and skies.

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    The George Institute for Global Health is proud to work in partnership with UNSW Sydney, Imperial College London and the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.

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