Dr. Janani Shanthosh is a Research Fellow at The George Institute and the Academic Lead of the Health and Human Rights Program at the Australian Human Rights Institute. At The George Institute, she leads two research streams within their Centre for Health Systems Science: realizing women’s health rights, and NCDs and the law. This work aims to develop empirical research tools that policy makers and researchers can use to evaluate law and inform legislative reform. Janani’s research interests include monitoring state responses to rights violations in women and girls, and co-producing model public health laws alongside governments and communities to create healthier societies. At the Australian Human Rights Institute, Janani works toward the progressive realization of human rights at a national, regional and global level by improving the generation and translation of evidence about the linkages between human rights and health outcomes.

Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis is member-elect to the expert committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2023-2026. She is faculty at University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is also the Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She recieved her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Dr. Jeni Klugman is a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. She has over 30 years of experience in international development, and a record of successful innovation and strategic leadership of major initiatives. She was previously the managing director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; Director of Gender and Development with the World Bank Group; fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School; an adviser on women’s economic empowerment with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and a Co-leading Thinker for the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation in Australia. Jeni has a Doctorate in Economics from the Australian National University and a Master of Science in Development Economics and a Bachelor of Civil Law (Honours) from University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Priyanthi Fernando is the Executive Director of the International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific. She has a Masters Degree in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. A social development and communications professional with over 30 years of experience both in Sri Lanka and overseas, she has worked in the areas of technology, infrastructure and poverty. She has worked in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Yemen, the UK and Australia and has led several organisations: the Centre for Poverty Analysis, an independent Sri Lankan think tank; the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development, a specialist global network and the Sri Lanka country programme of Intermediate Technology Development Group (now called Practical Action), the Sri Lankan arm of an international NGO. Priyanthi has long been passionate about issues of justice and about fighting structural inequalities relating to gender, access to technology, poverty and livelihoods.

Emma Feeny is Global Director of Impact & Engagement at The George Institute for Global Health, where she leads a programme of activities including advocacy, policy engagement and thought leadership to help increase the impact of the institute’s health and medical research.

Emma is a Senior Visiting Fellow at United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), and co-chairs the NCD Lab on Women and Girls with the World Health Organization. She also co-chairs the NCD Alliance Supporters’ Group, and is a former co-chair of the Taskforce on Women and NCDs.

Before joining The George Institute in 2017, Emma worked as a global policy and advocacy advisor at Oxfam, and held policy and communications roles at the University of Oxford, the World Food Programme and elsewhere. A former journalist, she has an MA in the Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

PhD, MPH, MHM, Research Fellow Health Systems Science - George Institute for Global Health, Conjoint Lecturer Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney

Belinda is a postdoctoral research fellow at the George Institute for Global health. She holds a Masters in Public Health and Health Management and completed her PhD through the George Institute and UNSW in 2021. Her PhD research adopted a health systems approach to evaluate health care services and access for patients with chronic eye disease. Belinda played a key role in the design, implementation and evaluation of the Western Sydney Community Eye Care (C-EYE-C) integrated model of care as both a project manager, and through her PhD studies.

Her current research explores value based health care and evaluation of new models of care in Australia. It explores the integration of primary and tertiary care services and has a particular focus on improving patient access, outcomes and experiences within the health system. She works on projects in partnership with government health departments, not for profit agencies, hospitals, and primary care and allied health services.

MD MSc, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Endocrinologist, Massachusetts General Hospital Global Health Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Seiglie is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a practicing endocrinologist and diabetologist, and a Global Health Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in Latin America and on the development of scalable interventions that can improve diabetes self-care among Latino adults. Born and raised in Santiago, Chile, she has had a long-standing interest in working to improve diabetes care for Latino adults through clinical care and research. Dr. Seiglie received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and her Master’s in Community Health and Welfare from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. She completed both her Internal Medicine residency and fellowship training in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Directora del Centro de Investigación en Atención Primaria de Salud, Médica de Familia y Comunidad, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Dr Cuba Fuentes is a Associate Professor at the School of Medicine at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) and the founding Director of the Center for Primary Health Care Research at UPCH. Her clinical and postgraduate training on Family and Community Medicine is underscored by her passion to advance primary care in Peru and Latin America, which she has accomplished through the training of health professionals and my leadership roles the field of public health policy. Dr Cuba Fuentes has served on major strategic senior positions at two of the largest healthcare providers in the country, Peru’s Ministry of Health and the Peruvian social insurance (EsSalud). Dr Cuba Fuentes is also the founder and the first-ever President of the Society of Family and Community Medicine in Peru. Dr Cuba Fuentes has more than 20 years of experience working on primary care services with a unique in-depth knowledge of the Peruvian public health system, its functioning and barriers across multiple providers, and how this could be affecting patients with multiple chronic conditions.

Professor at School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University in China

Maoyi Tian is a Professor at School of Public Health from Harbin Medical University in China. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health from University of New South Wales.

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, and was awarded the MPhil degree in Public Health from The University of Sydney. Prior to his current appointment, he was leading the primary health care research program and digital health research program at The George Institute China office.

His main research focus is around the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases and injury at the population level, specifically including dietary intervention, primary health system strengthening, digital health and healthy ageing program. He was selected as the “Emerging Leader” by World Heart Federation in 2018 and awarded as the Fogarty Global Health Fellow by Fogarty International Center of NIH in the US.

Visiting Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health; and Research Professor, Department of Medicine and Director, CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru