Dennis Mazingi is a medical doctor and general surgeon with a special interest in paediatric injury prevention, global surgery, and surgically correctable NCDs. He has worked in clinical medicine and surgery in southern Africa for almost a decade and is currently pursuing a DPhil in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences in the global surgery group.

His work focuses on trauma surveillance and quality improvement in paediatric trauma care in Zimbabwe. He is ably supervised by Professor Kokila Lakhoo and Professor Ashok Handa at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and Professor Godfrey Muguti at the University of Zimbabwe.

Prior to joining The George Institute Dennis obtained his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine and an MMed (Master’s in Medicine) in General Surgery at the University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences. He holds a first-class degree in International Health and Tropical Medicine (IHTM) from the University of Oxford and is a fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa as well as a Beit Trust Scholar.

He has worked in various research collaboratives in the field of global surgery, paediatric surgery, and general surgery. Dennis’s other interests lie in clinical surgery, surgical education, disruptive health technologies, frugal innovations, health systems and implementation research.

Dennis wants to see a healthier, more prosperous, more equitable world through surgical care and research. His mission is to help accelerate progress towards SDG target 3.6: to halve the number of deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2030 in Zimbabwe and globally; and to scale up quality surgical and anaesthesia care to the 5 billion people who need it through 2030 and beyond.

Professor Derek Chew is a clinical and interventional cardiologist as well as a clinical trialist and outcomes researcher in cardiovascular medicine. He has completed a Masters of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in quantitative methods.

He is a Senior Principal Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, and is the Regional Head of Cardiology for the Adelaide Health Service (Southern Region). Derek is the Head of the Flinders Clinical Trial Centre, and Chair of the Statewide Cardiology Clinical Network.

His clinical and research career is centred on the translation of current and future therapies and technologies in cardiology to improved patient outcomes in a clinically effective manner.

Dr Edward Mullins is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College, London and the George Institute for Global Health and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, London. He is also an NIHR ARC NWL Improvement Leader Fellow in the 2023 cohort.

His PhD at Imperial College investigated the fetal and maternal inflammatory response in Fetal Growth Restriction. Following this, Ed won a fellowship with Professor Dame Sally Davies, England CMO, as editor-in-chief of the CMO’s annual report, ‘Women: the health of the 51%.’ As an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, Ed has investigated self-monitoring of maternal cardiovascular health and prevention of Gestational Diabetes.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed was seconded as clinical adviser to Professor Chris Whitty, England CMO, and produced rapid reviews on coronavirus infection in pregnancy and in children, which he presented to SAGE and formed the basis of clinical guidelines for the UK.

He is co-CI for PAN-COVID, an NIHR-funded global registry of women affected by suspected COVID-19 or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy and their neonates. Ed is also co-CI for COM-SARS-2 study, an historical seroprevalence study in 11,000 maternal serum samples to evaluate the introduction and onset of community transmission of SARs-CoV-2 in NW London.

Ed has led a new clinical service to introduce post-birth contraception for all women in NW London, to allow women to access reliable family planning before discharge from their maternity service. He hopes to evaluate this and support national roll-out.

Dr Kelly Thompson is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Emerging Leader with The George Institute for Global Health. Concurrently she is Director of Research Operations at Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.  

She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Public Health from the School of Population Health within the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW, Sydney. She is a Registered Nurse, with a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Newcastle, with clinical experience in intensive care. 

Kelly’s primary research interest is in health and gender equity in the clinical area of infection and sepsis. She uses population level data to understand and improve equity in health outcomes for survivors of sepsis and critical illness. 

Srilatha is a trained Public Health professional with specialization in Social Epidemiology from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She has experience working at various levels of health system programs for more than 6 years.

At George, she is working with the Mental Health team for project Adolescents’ Resilience and Treatment for Mental health in Indian Slums (ARTEMIS). Prior to this she was working in Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi as a Senior Research Assistant.

Her interest areas are implementing public health projects at the grass root level, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building trainings. She has good experience working in thematic areas like Non-communicable Diseases, Reproductive and Child Health.

Dr. Rajesh is a BHMS graduate and has completed a Post Graduate Program in Clinical Research & Clinical Data Management. He is currently working as a Clinical Research Associate at the George Institute. He is ICH GCP certified and carries over all 16 years of healthcare industry experience under different therapeutic areas, Clinical research, and phases of Clinical Trials. He has expertise in pharmacokinetic sampling and processing, centralized & remote monitoring, source data verification, CAPA, and regulatory reporting. 

Earlier, he worked as a duty medical officer & Health administrator, overseeing clinic operations at a corporate setup. His responsibilities have included clinical data management, patient management, protocol development, training, and regulatory compliance. His work demonstrates a commitment to holistic healthcare delivery and continuous professional development.

Dr Rajeshree Sanyal works at the George Institute for Global Health as an Assistant Research Manager and Clinical Research Training Program (STOP-Epilepsy CRC) coordinator. She has 4+ years of experience in research management and holds a PhD in Microbiology from the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. She works in design, development, and delivery of institutional research capacity-strengthening programs. She has contributed to several online training programs courses for the institution in collaboration with regional offices. She co-manages the global Research Training learning management system (Moodle) and the institutional PhD program at The George Institute India. Her interests lie in research capacity strengthening, instructional design, digital learning technologies, and IP. 

Before joining the George Institute, Rajeshree was at the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance as a Grants Advisor and Competition secretary. 

Rebecca has been at The George Institute Australia for 13 years, and was first part of the project operations team where she started as a clinical trials assistant on Kanyini Guidelines Adherence with the Polypill Study (Kanyini GAP) and then continued her career development within APO becoming a Clinical Research Associate and then a Senior Clinical Research Associate, during this time she has worked on many different projects within various programs at The Institute including renal and metabolic, neurological, critical care, cardiovascular and oncology programs.

Rebecca is now the Quality Assurance officer for Australia where she is now using her experience by supporting and assisting staff and researchers in the Australia office and the global Quality Assurance (QA) Team in their quality activities under the Quality Assurance Framework, Rebecca is also responsible for the coordination, reporting and training on research quality processes within Australia, and together with the Centre for Operational and Research Excellence (CORE) QA team providing training and advice of quality assurance, risk management, and QA training to the Australia office, including the coordination of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training at The Institute.

Renu John works at the George Institute for Global Health India as a Research Fellow on the LIVING study – a lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention in women with prior gestational diabetes.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Dental Surgery from Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences and a Master of Public Health from Jodhpur National University.

Before working with George, she was an Occupational Health Officer and her research interest lies in occupational and environmental health, women and child health and health promotion.

Richard Lindley is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Sydney Medical School (Westmead Hospital Clinical School), University of Sydney. His career has focused on finding reliable new evidence to improve treatments for older people, particularly stroke.

He continues in hospital clinical practice (acute geriatric medicine, rehabilitation and stroke at Blacktown Hospital, Sydney) and runs a large portfolio of clinical trials and projects within different groups at The George Institute.

He is an Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal on Ageing and an Honorary Overseas Member of the British Association of Neurologists. He has published widely on clinical aspects of stroke, vascular disease, vaccination, infectious disease and geriatric medicine.

Ritika Khan joined the Biostatistics department at The George Institute India as a Research Assistant in 2024. She completed her Master’s in Statistics from University of Calcutta. Prior to joining, Ritika had worked as an intern at The George Institute. She works across different projects and is responsible for providing statistical support related to study design, sample size calculation, analysis, and interpretation of findings. Ritika is interested in learning more about different therapeutic areas in clinical and public health and in the application of statistical techniques to problems in this field. 

Professor Norton is one of the two Founding Directors of The George Institute for Global Health. She has published widely on women’s health, global health, and injury.

Robyn has had a long-standing commitment to improving the health of women and girls and co-established The George Institute’s Global Women’s Health Program. This program of work takes a life course approach to addressing the leading causes of death and disability for women and girls, especially non-communicable diseases, and injuries.

Robyn currently co-leads work in both Australia and the UK focused on the development of policies to ensure increased representation of women and girls as participants in health and medical research, and the disaggregation of data by sex and gender. This work led to the establishment of Australia’s first Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine in March 2024, in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW and Deakin University.

Robyn was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2016 and made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2017. In 2021, she was appointed as a member of Chief Executive Women and, in 2022, was appointed to the Australian Women’s Health Advisory Council where she is also a member of its research sub-committee.

In 2024, Robyn was appointed Chair of the inaugural Advisory Board for Franklin Women, an Australian social enterprise that connects individuals and organisations committed to creating a health and medical research sector where women thrive. She is also Chair of the inaugural Advisory Board of Imperial College’s Network of Excellence in Women’s Health and in 2024, joined the board of directors of the Black Dog Institute, UNSW Sydney.