The George Institute for Global Health Information

We are a medical research institute affiliated with leading universities aiming to challenge the status quo in health care. With 700+ people around the world, and projects in over 40 countries, our Strategy 2025 is all about impact – specifically, the impact of The George Institute’s activities on the health of millions of people, particularly those living in disadvantaged circumstances around the world. Our strategy focuses on three key research priorities: • Better Treatments: finding better treatments for the world’s biggest health problems • Better Care: transforming primary health care to support better health for more people • Healthier Societies: harnessing the power of communities, governments and markets to improve health Our innovative commercial enterprises help maximise our impact. Here is a sample of the things we are doing to achieve our goal of having the greatest possible impact on global health: • We are identifying better and safer treatments for our biggest killers like stroke, heart disease and high blood pressure • In many countries, our award winning FoodSwitch smartphone app is helping people make healthy food choices when shopping • In China, we ran a successful education and awareness program to reduce the amount of salt eaten by people by 25% each day • In rural India, we have shown that mobile technology can help diagnose mental health, as well as help treat cardiovascular disease, and we’re looking at similar approaches to treating chronic diseases in Indonesia and China • Together with Aboriginal communities in NSW, Australia, we developed an innovative community led program to assist young Aboriginal drivers attain their license, now implemented in a dozen of locations • We are developing an affordable dialysis machine, with potential to save millions of lives each year and transform the way kidney disease is treated globally.