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.

Lachlan is an intensive care specialist who works at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.

Lachlan is an early career researcher and is currently enrolled in a PhD as a Scientia Scholar (UNSW) focussed on Acute Kidney Injury is Sepsis under the supervision of Prof Bala Venkatesh, Dr Naomi Hammond and Prof John Myburgh. He previously completed a Masters of Philosophy (USYD) focused on analytical bias in meta-analysis. Other research interests include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander outcomes in critical care, neurocritical care, burns injury and the quality of ICU survivorship for patients and their carers.

Laurent is Director of Biostatistics and Data Science at the George Institute for Global Health and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of New South Wales. He also holds an adjunct professorial appointment at the University of Bordeaux. 

His research focuses on biostatistics and their application to clinical and health services research. He is recognised internationally for his leading role in the design and analysis of large-scale trials in critical care, cardiovascular, neurological and musculoskeletal diseases.

He holds a Master of Science in Statistics and Computer Science and a Master of Research in Public Health (Biostatistics). He is an accredited statistician by the Statistical Society of Australia (AStat).

Dr. Lili Song MD PhD, is the Head of Stroke division, senior research fellow at The George Institute China, and senior lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales. She has been a neurologist for 15 years and has clinical research experience for 8 years. She has worked in several GI stroke clinical trials (ENCHANTED, INTERACT, SAVE, HeadPost, TRIDENT, BEYOND 7, etc), with Professor Craig Anderson, providing academic input as well as day-to-day operational direction.

She joined The George China from 2016 and currently manages several large scale clinical trials including INTERACT3, INTERACT4, ENCHANTED2 and TRIDENT CHINA - as the main research fellow and the global project lead. She holds several small seed grants from GI and World Heart Foundation and she has successfully awarded a MRC joint funding as CIB in 2019. She is a reviewer for several high-ranking clinical journals including Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases and Stroke, etc. She has been selected one of 2018 Emerging Leaders by the World Heart Foundation. Now she is co-supervisor for 2 PhD students.

Yunyun (Lily) Zhu Chief Representative of The George Institute for Global Health, Beijing Representative Office, Master of Economics.

Graduated from the University of International Business and Economics, she ever worked in commercial sectors and international charities, and has been committed to the non-for-profit sectors for many years, especially in the fields of children's development, healthcare and life science. She has more than 20 years of management experience and is expert in corporate governance, regulatory compliance, business development and operations management.

Lindsay Complin is Global Director for Communications and Marketing at The George Institute for Global Health where she leads a programme to protect and promote the organisation’s global reputation encompassing media relations, social media, website content, marketing and internal communications.

Lindsay has spent her career working in journalism and in PR and communications.  Prior to joining The George Institute in August 2022, she worked for seven years for the British Heart Foundation as Director of Corporate Affairs.

Lindsay is an accredited EMCC coach and has an OCM Diploma in Coaching Supervision.

Professor Lisa Keay is Head of the School of Optometry and Vision Science and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health. She has developed links with government, community organisations and other stakeholders to identify key, policy-relevant research questions and to answer them with high quality research.  Her research tackles the two major causes of injury to older people: falls and road traffic injuries.

She is an injury epidemiologist with a PhD in ophthalmic epidemiology and Masters of Public Health University of NSW Wales and a post-doctoral research fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.

Maddie is a Research Associate and PhD candidate within the Health Systems Science team at the George Institute for Global Health. She is also an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW, and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.

Her research seeks to use public health law to prioritise government action in chronic disease prevention, and environmental health and sustainability. Her areas of research include public health law and regulation, commercial determinants of health, policy coherence and the political economy. Maddie has worked closely with a variety of governments on research and policy issues. Her PhD is part of a larger project working with a multi-disciplinary team of policy makers, public health lawyers and nutrition experts to co-design regulations under the South Australian Public Health Act to prevent NCDs.

Maddie has a background in policy, advocacy and strategic communications. Prior to undertaking her candidature, she was working as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) in Canberra. Some of Maddie’s work includes leading the campaign to update the NSW Liquor Act to better regulate online sales and delivery of alcohol, and ensuring the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry went beyond competition issues to also focus on consumer rights and the predatory advertising strategies of junk food, alcohol and gambling industries.

Manoj is Data Manager at the George Institute. He is a post-graduate in computer sciences and population studies with 15 years of experience in data management of health research data that includes- database design, implementation and data analysis using various applications. He has experience of working with national and international surveys (NFHS, DLHS, SAGE, GATS) and academic clinical trials. Before joining The George Institute, he worked at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India and Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur.

Manuela is the Senior Clinical Data Manager for the Statistics and Data Management division of The George Institute, Australia.

Maoyi Tian is a honorary senior fellow working in The George Institute China. He received his Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University of York, UK and his MSc of Biomedical Engineering from University of Oxford, UK.

He graduated with his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is currently a MPhil candidate in Epidemiology in The University of Sydney. His main research focus is using mobile health and health technology for chronic disease management and prevention in the primary care setting, particularly the integration of the mobile health or health technology into the existing health care system.

Sudhir is currently working as database manager for FoodSwitch (India) study. He is responsible for managing and maintaining the Indian Food Composition Database, including data collection, processing, quality control and working with stakeholders (Food Industry). 

Sudhir has expertise in managing projects, conducting health surveys and program evaluations. He also has international exposure working in Mongolia as a Health Researcher assigned to the Provincial Health Department and later as a Program Advisor in the European Commission funded health project ‘Improving health through community volunteering and empowerment’.

He also worked in both governmental and non-governmental sectors within institutions and ministries implementing a number of projects in areas of capacity development, child health, and immunization. His areas of interest are noncommunicable diseases, community health, and health system management.

He is also involved in the ‘Science of salt’ project funded by the University of Calgary, where he is collating data from research articles in the area of salt on a regular basis to be uploaded to a website for dissemination and works on Science of Salt Weekly.