Deepika comes from an interdisciplinary background with science, management and policy degrees and holds a PhD in Public Health Policy from IIM Ahmedabad, India. Deepika holds widespread experience in consulting with various national and international development sector organisations namely UNICEF, UHC2030, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp and Oxford Policy Management, India. Her work over the past decade has been focused on the intersection of health and gender, including healthcare for the frontline workforce, SRHR with a specific focus on adolescents and sustainable menstruation, mental health, women leadership and unpacking laws and regulations from the citizen's rights perspective.

Deepika writes on public health issues and her experiences as an emerging global health researcher, questioning the regressive social norms and systems, particularly for women, demanding for equitable and responsive health and social policies in India. Deepika is an Emerging Voice for Global Health (EV4GH 2016), co-founder and current chair of the Women in Global Health India Chapter and is a strong advocate of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in all spaces. Some of her short pieces can be accessed here, and here. Her recent podcast with Arthan Careers in Conversations of Change, where she reflects on her journey and women’s leadership in global health can be watched here.

At the George Institute, Deepika is currently working with the Global Thought Leadership Program, supporting with strategic thinking towards strengthening the visibility of The George Institute’s work regionally and globally. She is also managing Ubuntu Initiative focused on building equitable partnerships in Africa, focused on research, capacity strengthening, and impact and engagement.

Associate Professor Naomi Hammond is the Critical Care Program Head at The George Institute for Global Health. She also works part-time as the Intensive Care Clinical Research Manager at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Naomi holds several other appointments including NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow; Conjoint Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales; an Editorial Board Member for Australian Critical Care Journal; Chair of the Australian Critical Care Nurses Research Advisory Panel; and Senior Research Fellow with the Australian Sepsis Network.

Naomi is a clinical nurse researcher and has led a program of sepsis research through international collaborations including facilitating 4 clinical trials in COVID-19 in India.  She leads the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Point Prevalence program. She has also undertaken international point prevalence studies including a large epidemiological study of patients with sepsis in Indian ICUs. Called the SIPS (Sepsis in India Prevalence) study, it has provided vital insights into changing epidemiology with different sepsis definitions, bacteriology, and antimicrobial resistance patterns.

Naomi’s main research interests include fluid resuscitation, sepsis, fever management, knowledge translation and implementation research, health economics, and long-term outcomes post-critical illness. Naomi has experience supervising and mentoring medical trainees, nursing staff, PhD, Masters and medical students in both the clinical and academic environment.

Additional to Naomi’s academic portfolio, she also has extensive clinical trials operational management experience including finance, regulatory processes, personnel, project and program management in a clinical and NGO environment.

Min Jun is Scientia Associate Professor and Program Lead at the George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney.

Min leads a program of research focused on understanding the impact of clinical management strategies in people with kidney disease and its related complications. He has developed and leads international projects using large clinical trial and real-world, population based data sources.

Min holds a PhD (2012) and MScMed(ClinEpi) in clinical epidemiology from the University of Sydney, and a MSc(by research) and BSc(Hon) from UNSW Sydney. He was previously an NHMRC Early Career Fellow (2013-2016) based in Canada (University of Calgary), co-funded by two additional competitive federal/provincial Canadian fellowships (CIHR/AIHS). Min's research track record includes >100 publications (including in top-ranked journals e.g. BMJ, Lancet, JACC), >$5.1M in research funding from top-level funding agencies (e.g. NHMRC). To date, 72% of his work is published in top 10% journals worldwide, has been cited >4500 times including in some 24 international clinical practice guidelines across various fields.

Min is actively involved in mentoring, training and supervising research students and fellows. He currently serves as Associate Editor (Global Health) for Kidney and Blood Pressure Research and has been involved in the development of clinical practice guidelines for the care of patients with kidney disease in Australia and internationally.

Martin is Professorial Fellow at the George Institute, Head of the South Western Sydney Campus for the Faculty of Medicine & Health at UNSW, and a clinical nephrologist at Liverpool Hospital.

He has worked extensively within the ANZ Society of Nephrology in renal guidelines, clinical policy and research.

Martin’s research interests include large scale clinical trials to explore ways to improve the outcomes of patients with kidney disease (esp in the setting of acute kidney injury), measurement of health systems and applying research evidence into clinical practice.

Dr Anna Campain is a biostatistician with experience in health, medical and bioinformatics research.

She has worked extensively with routinely-collected health data, both linked and non-linked. Anna has a special interest in using routinely-collected health datasets to explore and understand health patterns in high-risk or vulnerable populations to inform treatments, approaches and behaviours. She is passionate about research that will be translated to end-user benefit through changes in clinical guidelines, health policy and resource management.

Joining The George Institute for Global Health in 2018, Anna brings over a decade of experience in applied statistics. As an applied statistician, Anna is passionate about using robust, appropriate and contemporary statistical methods to investigate clinically important research questions. Her experience to date has involved the application of advanced regression methods and machine learning techniques to chronic disease research, the use of accessible data visualisation methods to disseminate findings to a wide research audience, and regional, state and national health program evaluation and impact investigations.