Our Distinguished Fellows are external leading health researchers, health policy experts, policy makers and health advocates.
We work with our Fellows to drive conversations focused on better treatments, better care and healthier societies. For example, we support our Fellows to highlight specific challenges and issues through blogs, public talks and other events, videos, social media, and policy papers. We sponsor conference presentations or similar announcements related to their research, and they engage with stakeholders through our major centres in Australia, China, India and the United Kingdom.
As a Distinguished Fellow you’ll stay right where you are at your own organisation. We’ll support your thought leadership work, amplifying your insights to key stakeholders around the world.
To find out more, contact Maarinke van der Meulen, Policy Program Officer;
T +61 2 8052 4322
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Carolyn Reynolds has been driving change in global health and development and US foreign policy for three decades. Carolyn is a Senior Associate with the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she is serving as an expert adviser to the CSIS Commission for Health Security. She is also a consultant to the World Bank Group and other international organisations.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Corinna Hawkes is Professor of Food Policy and Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City University of London, Vice Chair of the London Child Obesity Taskforce established by the Mayor of London, and serves on a variety of international initiatives. Between 2015-18 she was Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Group of the Global Nutrition Report, which tracks progress on addressing malnutrition in all its forms.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Göran Tomson is a Professor of International Health Systems Research, linked to the Medical Management Centre at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics at the Karolinska Institutet. He is a Counselor UN Agenda 2030 at the President’s office at KI. He is a co-founder and a Senior Advisor at the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Co-founder ReAct, the international network to contain antibiotic resistance, responsible for coordinating the work that led to the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research now at WHO.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Dr Juan A. Rivera is General Director of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico and Professor of Nutrition at the Mexican School of Public Health. Juan is Executive Board member of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes, member of The EAT-Lancet commission, member of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico, member of the American Society for Nutrition and, Board Directors´ Member of the Pact for Early Childhood.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Michael Moore is Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, is the former CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia and the Immediate-Past President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global
Dr Olive Kobusingye is an accident and emergency surgeon and injury epidemiologist. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda, where she heads the Trauma, Injury, & Disability Unit. In 2016, she was appointed Board Chair of the Road Traffic Injury Research Network, an international agency working to improve road safety through research, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. She is also a member of the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility Technical Advisory Group.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Dr Ophira Ginsburg is a medical oncologist and global women’s health researcher with technical and policy expertise in cancer prevention and control.
The Elsa Atkin Distinguished Fellowship recognises the significant contribution of female leaders to advance women’s health equity. The role is named in honour of Ms Elsa Atkin AM, a past board director at the Institute, and acknowledges Ms Atkin’s passion and dedication to this cause.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Rajani Ved is a medical doctor with public health training. Rajani is the Executive Director, National Health Systems Resource Centre in New Delhi, India and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has about 30 years of experience working on community based health services delivery and health systems strengthening.
Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Dr Saxena is a psychiatrist by training, and past Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organisation (WHO). His work has involved evaluating evidence on effective public health measures and providing advice and technical assistance to ministries of health on prevention and management of mental, developmental, neurological and substance use disorders and suicide prevention, establishing partnerships with academic centres and civil society organisations and global advocacy for mental health and substance use issues.
Professor Trish Greenhalgh is our inaugural Distinguished Fellow
Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and a Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Trish is an internationally recognised academic in primary health care and trained as a GP.
