Dr Meena Thuraisingham is Founder and Principal at BoardQ and TalentInvest. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Shared Value Project and Linden Art Gallery.

Meena has previously held executive roles at ANZ, including Global Head of Leadership and Talent and Head of Human Resources, Corporate & Institutional Bank. She has also held senior consultant roles with two global consulting firms.

Meena joined the Board in January 2018 and is a Member of the Risk Committee.

A/Professor Meg Jardine is a Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health.

Her research interests centre on preventing the progression and complications of kidney disease and diabetes. She has a particular interest in using innovative trial designs to better generate evidence to improve outcomes. Dr Jardine leads the RESOLVE and BEAT-Calci trials and was the Global Scientific Lead of the CREDENCE study and CI of the ACTIVE and FINESSE trials. Her advocacy for kidney disease is pursued through memberships of the Board of the Kidney Health Initiative (KHI), the Executive Committee of the international KDIGO guidelines group and the International Society of Nephrology Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACTS) core committee. 

Meg Jardine is a practising physician and nephrologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital

Dr Menglu Ouyang is a research fellow at The George Insititute for Global Health and Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW. Her research field is in stroke, including acute care, clinical management, health system and implementation science. She has extensive experience in secondary analysis 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 monthly Process Evaluation/Health System Research Seminar at The George Institute. She is in the UNSW Cardiac, Vascular, Metabolic Medicine Early Career Researcher Committee and the editor board of Cerebrovascular Diseases and Frontiers Public Health.

Ameer has a back ground in sociology. Prior to joining George Institute he served as Field Manager in the Administrative Staff College of India and Public Health Foundation of India. He has more than ten years experience in planning and managing large scale population based public health research studies.

He has particular expertise in community mobilization, site assessments, field management, and participatory mapping. He is currently working on the SMART Health project.

Murari is currently working as a Statistical Programmer in the George Institute or Global Health. He is an engineering graduate with Masters in Clinical Research from Medical University of South Carolina, USA. Additionally, he holds a Diploma in Clinical Data Management and Global Base and Advanced SAS Certification. He has 6 years of experience in Clinical Research domain and has worked extensively in Clinical Data Management and Statistical Programming. He has worked in Preterm Birth Cohort, Comprehensive National Nutritional Survey, Breast cancer and Tuberculosis Vaccine trial.  His area of expertise includes database programming and Biostatistics.

Namrata Nath Kumar is a Clinical Research Associate for the Renal and Metabolic Division. She has worked in the division since 2013, and is passionate about clinical trials to help improve patients’ quality of life. Her work on the SHARP-ER study introduced her to clinical research operations, where she was involved in coordination of site finance, patient surveys and data linkage processes with MBS and PBS datasets. She currently manages sites across Australia and New Zealand for the PRESERVE study, a double-blinded randomised controlled trial in the Cardiology setting. Through this study Namrata has become familiar with HREC and Governance processes across both countries, in addition to investigational product accountability, central labs and safety processes. In 2016 Namrata commenced on the STARRT-AKI study, which has widened her knowledge base to include Intensive Care clinical research. Her monitoring role on this project takes on responsibilities in site feasibility, start-up, initiation, and data management. While learning and growing in the clinical research field, Namrata sees herself pursuing further studies in public health and managing research projects in the near future.

Nikita is a physician with training in public health and health management. She completed an undergraduate degree in medicine from Bangalore, India and holds master’s degrees in international public health and health management from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

At the George Institute, Nikita is involved in the operationalisation and management of several academic randomised clinical trials in the area of renal disease, critical care and COVID-19. Nikita works closely with sponsors, trial steering committees, regulatory authorities, ethics committees and clinical sites across India to conduct trials ethically, and efficiently.

In addition to trial management, Nikita is currently a certified Good Clinical Practice (GCP) trainer and trains researchers, project managers and clinical site staff on good practices in clinical research. Her interests lie in clinical trial methodology, project management and data management.

Coming from a Software Engineering background with several years’ of experience, Nipuna was offered a UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship in 2018 under Associate Professor Julie Brown, to work on a digital intervention as a mobile app to help parents prevent falls in children < 1 year and the intervention is to be developed based on behaviour theories, thus working as a Digital Behaviour Change Intervention (DBCI).

Nipuna is passionate about Digital Behaviour Change Intervention development, to improve people’s health and looks forward to exploring the potential of DBCIs for public health problems.

Roy is a Global health researcher with a focus on Trauma outcomes and surgical healthcare systems in resource-poor settings. His academic, clinical and research career as the Professor & Chief of Surgical services at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Hospital, HBNI University, Mumbai (an Universal Health Care scheme), spanned two decades.

On the health policy front, Roy has been the Technical Officer globally for Surgery & Anaesthesia in the Clinical Services & Systems unit at WHO Headquarters, Geneva; the Southeast Asia Regional Health Hub lead at Oxford Policy Management, the National Advisor; Public Health Planning and Evidence at NHSRC - Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) India; Director, State Health Systems Strengthening and Knowledge partnerships at CARE-India, Bihar.

Norbert Berend is Head of Respiratory Research at the George Institute for Global Health and a member of the physiology group at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research of which he was the Director from 2000 to 2012. He holds the academic title of Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney; Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney; and is a Visiting or Honorary Professor at three Chinese Universities.

He is a past President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. He has also held positions with the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society. Norbert’s research interests include the pathophysiology of asthma and COPD and clinical intervention studies to improve the outcome of airways disease.

Norbert is a recipient of the TSANZ Medal, the APSR Medal and has received an Award of Merit from the European Respiratory Society. In 2003 Norbert was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to respiratory medicine.

Dr Parisa Glass is the Director of Innovation and Enterprise for The George Institute for Global Health. In this role, she leads Health 10x Accelerator in partnership with UNSW Sydney. Health 10x accelerator supports startups developing affordable and scalable solutions to some of the most pressing unmet medical needs, globally. 

Parisa also leads UNSW Clinical Research Unit (CRU) which is collaborative program with The George Institute. UNSW CRU supports clinical researchers across UNSW network with operational and academic expertise, systems and tools to conduct high quality and impactful research efficiently and in accordance with best practice guidelines.  

Parisa has a PhD in Biomedical Science and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA). Parisa also holds a Senior Lecturer position with UNSW Sydney.

Parisa joined The George Institute for Global Health in 2008. She has over twenty years’ experience in health and university sectors in an operational and academic capacity. Her expertise is in operational leadership & optimisation, strategic planning, coaching & mentoring, managing change, financial management, program development and management, contract negotiations, stakeholder management and recruiting and developing top talent.

Paula is a PhD student at The George Institute and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. She is visiting from Chile where she worked as a Stroke Neurologist in Clinica Alemana de Santiago - Universidad del Desarrollo, as well as a research coordinator.