Distinguished Fellows

Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health

Dr Cara Tannenbaum is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montreal and a former Scientific Director of the Canadian Institute of Health Research-Institute of Gender and Health. From 2019-2024 she served as the Departmental Science Advisor to Health Canada.  Dr. Tannenbaum was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition for her work in drug safety, women’s health and sex and gender science. Cara has led several initiatives to integrate sex, gender and intersecting factors across health and allied areas including the sex-and-gender-based-analysis plus (SGBA+) policy in Canada, and has previously advised the European Commission, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on similar policy implementation. 

Cara is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the May Cohen Gender Equity Award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine Canada and the Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging. 

Cara works with researchers, governments, universities and stakeholders interested in gender, sex and health research to set priorities, identify implementation opportunities, build partnerships and translate research evidence to improve the health of all. 

Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health

Dr Janine Mohamed is a proud Narrunga Kaurna woman from South Australia. Over the past 20 years, Janine has worked in nursing, management, project management, and workforce and health policy in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector. She was awarded an Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Fellowship in 2019, and, in January 2020, was awarded a Doctorate of Nursing honoris causa by Edith Cowan University.

Distinguished Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health

Justin is a co-chair of the Steering Committee of UHC2030, the international multistakeholder partnership for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and is a member of multiple World Health Organization (WHO) expert panels. At a national level in Australia, Justin is president of the AIDS Council of New South Wales (ACON). He is Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New South Wales, as well as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Justin's training is in the field of pure mathematics, and he currently works as an investment analyst.

Renu Khanna is a passionate advocate for women's health and rights. Based in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat, India, Khanna co-directs SAHAJ-Society for Health Alternatives (SAHAJ), a nongovernmental organization that focuses on health and education issues and works with children, adolescents and women. SAHAJ also works with movements and coalitions in several states to localize SDGs from a gender perspective. Khanna has over four decades of experience as a trainer, researcher, evaluator and policy analyst in India and is on the governing boards and steering committees of several national and international organizations and networks, including COPASAH -- Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health. She is currently a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. She is a graduate of Delhi University, India where she received a degree in economics in 1975 and completed a master's in business administration in 1977.

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

Edwine is the director of the Nairobi Programme of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and also heads the Programme’s Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). Edwine is also a Visiting Professor of Health Economics at the University of Oxford. Edwine has several years of experience of practice, advisory, and conducting health economics and financing research in Kenya and in the broader Sub-Saharan African region. 

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

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.