CREST - Statistics & Data Science
Our global team of biostatisticians, statisticians and data scientists conduct complex statistical analyses to support health and medical research, ensuring its quality, validity, and reliability. Our data experts can provide the quantitative, qualitative, and statistical analyses needed to answer your complex research questions and support data driven decision-making.
Our services include:
Study Design: Developing robust research plans and complex trial designs.
Data Collection: Gathering data through surveys, administrative records, web scraping, or other means.
Data Management & Governance: Ensuring data quality, validity, and long-term accessibility.
Statistical & Data Analysis: Applying complex statistical models, machine learning, and bioinformatics techniques to analyse data and draw insights.
Predictive analytics: for research and program outcomes
Data Visualization: Creating interactive displays to explore and communicate findings.
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
CREST - First Nations Research and Consulting
Specialising in First Nations research and engagement, The George Institute’s Guuna-maana (Heal) team supports culturally safe, Indigenous-led and co-designed research grounded in Indigenous knowledges, values and priorities.
We work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations to ensure respectful, inclusive research design and methodology, as well as equity-centred program development and implementation.
Our services include:
Community-led research centered in Indigenous methodologies
Translational research, data analysis and program evaluation
Equity-centred policy and program design, recommendations and implementation
Training and capacity building, including in Indigenous research methodologies, cultural safety and community engagement
Who we work with:
Local, state and national governments
Public health agencies and networks
Policy planners and senior program managers
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
CREST - Research Training Facilitators
Our course facilitators
Our people
Making impacts through our people
At The George Institute, people are at the heart of everything we do. Our work is driven by the knowledge, passion, and dedication of our people. From world-class researchers to global collaborators, we work together to create real-world solutions that transform health systems, improve lives, and advance equity across the globe.
Our team includes researchers, operational experts, and global collaborators who work to amplify insights, translate evidence into action, and build pathways from research to policy implementation.
By working with external thought leaders, policymakers, and advocates, our work drives impactful change for those who need it most.
A GeorgeTalks seminar discussing our partnership with UNSW Sydney
The George Institute Thought Leaders 2025 cohortEmerging Thought Leadership ProgramOur Emerging Thought Leadership Program invests in our rising talent, giving early and mid-career professionals the opportunity to make a diff
Research code of conduct policy
1. Introduction
This Research Code of Conduct Policy (the Code) provides the foundation for responsible, ethical and high-quality research at The George Institute for Global Health (TGI).
The purpose of the Code is to describe the guiding principles for research conducted by TGI and to outline the responsibilities that flow from those principles. The Code is supplemented by a number of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Associated Documents (ADs), that express the practical application of this policy in the day-to-day operation of the organisation.
This policy is based on the relevant Research Codes of Conduct or equivalent publications for Australia (as allowed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence), India and the United Kingdom. These references are recorded in section 4 below. Excerpts may not be specifically referenced in each instance.
2. Scope
All individuals undertaking any research-related work in any capacity for, or on behalf of, TGI must com
Working with children and adolescents' policy
1. Introduction
The George Institute for Global Health (TGI) is committed to the safeguarding, and wellbeing of all children and adolescent participating in research activities within TGI and its related entities. TGI is committed to establishing and maintaining relevant gender responsiveness safeguarding of all children and adolescent from all forms of violence through a safe and friendly environment.
As part of this commitment, TGI adopts the key child safe principles outlined in this Policy and takes responsibility to ensure anyone who represents TGI does not in any way harm, abuse or commit any other act or threaten or attempt to cause violence, harm or injury against children and adolescent people or place them at risk of the same.
2. Scope
All individuals undertaking work
Veronica Le Nevez
Profile
Veronica Le Nevez is Co-Director, Impact and Engagement Australia at The George Institute for Global Health, where she leads the Institute’s advocacy and policy engagement activities in Australia and the Pacific region to help increase the impact of the institute’s health and medical research. Programmes of activity include preventive health, food and nutrition, primary care, injury, better treatments for non-communicable diseases, women’s health and critical care, and others.
Veronica has spent her career in public policy, having worked extensively in the environment portfolio and in digital innovation. Prior to joining The George Institute, Veronica was General Manager Policy and Advocacy at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and held policy development and implementation roles at the University of Sydney. Veronica has a Bachelor of Science in Resource and Environmental Management, and a Master of Environmental Science from Macquarie University and is currently studying a Masters of Business Administration at the University of New South Wales.
Georgia White
Profile
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.
Kate Womersley
Profile
Kate is an NHS doctor in psychiatry working in Edinburgh. Her research considers women’s mental and physical health through the life course. Her current work with The George Institute is focused on the co-creation and implementation of sex and gender policies for the UK’s medical research funders. This is part of a wider initiative to recognise diversity among patients, and ensure research practices and outcomes represent everyone in our society. Kate is also a Commissioner on the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS.
About us
OUR MISSIONTo improve the health of millions of people worldwide.
At The George Institute, we believe everyone has the right to a healthy life. We are a research organisation that finds solutions to some of the world's biggest health challenges.
With major centres in Australia, the UK, and India, and over 400 active projects in more than 60 countries, we work with partners and communities across the world to conduct rigorous, high-quality research to make a real difference to people’s health, particularly those facing the most barriers.
From pioneering clinical trials to transformative digital health innovations, translating evidence into scalable solutions, shaping health policies and advocating for change, we’re focused on a future where health equity is a reality, not just an aspiration.
At the heart of our mission to improve the health of millions worldwide is a belief in the power of change. Together, we’re building a healthier, more just world.
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