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. 

Dr. Ankita Mukherjee is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute. Ankita holds the DBT/Wellcome India Alliance Early Career Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health. Her fellowship project DAYARA aims to co-create a mental health promotion intervention for Scheduled Tribe communities in Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh.  

Ankita also provides qualitative research support (process evaluation, formative evaluation) to several projects in the mental health programme, including SMART Mental Health and ARTEMIS, INDIGO and ANUMATI 2.0. In her work, she regularly interacts with communities, service providers and other stakeholders to understand their perspectives on projects and their implementation.

Her other interest is applying Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) to improve access to quality mental health care.

Ankita holds an M.Phil and PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Maarinke is the Program Lead for the Global Thought Leadership Program, in the Impact and Engagement team. She is an innovation specialist, translating research insights for different audiences into a range of formats and complimenting advocacy efforts on preventable disease and injury. Maarinke is particularly interested in finding links between silos, working across specialisations, and connecting people and ideas, joining skills and expertise to deliver strong outcomes.

Maarinke joined the George Institute in 2018, establishing activities such as data visualisation, interactive stories and podcasts. Since then, Maarinke has further developed The Global Thought Leadership program, designing the Emerging Thought Leader Program - a 6 month capacity strengthening program to train and coach early-mid career researchers and subject matter experts- as well as the Distinguished Fellow Program, engaging and collaborating on thought leadership activities with a network of renowned experts around the globe.

Prior to working at The George Institute, Maarinke worked in other technical industries, including medicines education, insurance, finance and IT. Maarinke has a Masters in International Law and International Relations, Graduate Certificate in Health Policy and Health Communications, and a Bachelor of Business with double major in Marketing and Management.

Dr Menglu Ouyang is a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW. Her research field is in stroke, including acute care, clinical management, health system and implementation science. She has extensive experience in large international clinical trials and implementation research. Her research contributes to filling the knowledge gap in stroke clinical guidelines development, informs implementation strategies and supports promoting the care embedded in existing processes in low- and middle-income countries.

She is the leading investigator for the process evaluation alongside the large international trials funded by MRC and NHMRC, to explore the feasibility, acceptability and implementation of evidence-based care. She also chairs the Brain Health Consumer Panel at The George Institute. She is in the editor board of BMC Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases and Frontiers Public Health. She was selected as the World Heart Federation Emerging Leader and World Stroke Organisation Conference Young Investigator.

Prof. Mark Huffman, a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and Adjunct Professor at UNSW, is a globally recognized preventive cardiologist with over a decade of experience in cardiovascular dissemination and implementation research. He is a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Co-Director of the Global Health Center at Washington University in St. Louis and Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University.

He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology and was recognised as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine through the National Academy of Medicine. He is a standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation for Health and Health Care study section.

He co-created the World Heart Federation’s flagship Emerging Leaders program, which has trained >200 early-to-mid-career professionals from >50 countries in implementation research. Prof. Huffman has taught graduate-level courses, co-directed the NIH/Fogarty-funded global health fellows’ research training program, and mentored undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and early-stage investigator trainees in implementation research.

Kylie is Chief of Staff at The George Institute for Global Health. She has 30 years’ experience in senior government, diplomatic and consulting positions. Kylie’s areas of expertise include international business strategy and growth, partnerships and stakeholder management, and business transformation. 

Before joining The George Institute, Kylie was a Deputy Secretary in the NSW State Government, responsible for its trade and investment portfolio, including its international network of trade offices. She was a Director at global advisory firm EY, and earlier worked for the Australian Federal Government for more than 15 years in senior diplomatic roles working in India, Southeast Asia and Europe. 

Kylie holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Sydney and has undertaken various post graduate leadership programmes, including at the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Professor Helena Legido-Quigley joined The George Institute for Global Health, UK and the School of Public Health, Imperial College London in 2023 as Chair in Health Systems Science.

Professor Legido-Quigley also holds an Associate Professorship in Health Systems at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, a member of the Council of the World Economic Forum and is editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Migration and Health.

She is also a member of Women in Global Health, Spain, a role reflective of her commitment to redistributing power in global health, and of her broader emphasis on championing the next generation of global health researchers through mentorship and teaching.

Sarah Butler is a Non-Executive Director of IAG and RACV’s Insurance Joint Venture IMA, Lumonus and Australian Clinical Labs Limited. She is also a Member of Chief Executive Women and Advisor of Sync Technologies.

Sarah is a former senior partner with Booz Allen and Strategy&, focused on health, insurance and government. She worked in 30+ countries including 5 years in China/Asia and also led PwC’s Global Health practice and NSW Government relationship through COVID-19.

Sarah joined the Board in November 2023 and is Chair of the People Committee and a Member of the Investment Committee.

Dr Tim Fountaine is a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company based in Sydney. He is also Chair of The Digital Sciences Initiative, University of Sydney.

Tim is a medical doctor/PhD and has more than 15 years’ experience working with governments on health policy and program implementation. He established McKinsey’s AI capability, QuantumBlack, in Asia and works with private and public sector organisations to help adapt AI and digital technologies.

Tim joined the Board in November 2023 and is a Member of the Risk Committee.

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.