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    CEW members are leaders across diverse sectors in Australia, including government, business, sport, academia, the arts, and the not-for-profit sector.

    Our members share a unifying goal: to remove systemic barriers and create pipelines that enable Australian women to rise to leadership positions in their communities. This ensures a diversity of women's voices at every decision-making table while supporting both women and men to thrive—at work and home.

    Robyn Norton

    Robyn Norton
    Robyn Norton is the Founding Director of The George Institute for Global Health, a not-for-profit, medical research organisation established in Sydney, Australia in 1999 and now also with offices in India and the UK. Robyn is Conjoint Professor, School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney and Emeritus Professor of Global Health at Imperial College London. She has published widely in the fields of injury, global health, and women’s health. Robyn has had a longstanding commitment to improving the health of women and girls and co-established The George Institute’s Global Women’s Health Program in 2018 and more recently the Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine, a partnership with the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW and Deakin University. She co-chairs the Centre's Business Translation Working Group, which aims to ensure that the business sector takes a sex and gender lens to the development of health products (including both medical devices and pharmaceuticals). Robyn was appointed to the Australian Women’s Health Advisory Council in 2023 and is a member of its research committee. She currently chairs the Advisory Board of Franklin Women (Australia), a social enterprise that connects individuals and organisations committed to creating a health and medical research sector where women thrive, and also the Advisory Board of the Network of Excellence in Women’s Health at Imperial College London. In 2024, she was appointed as a non-executive Director on the board of the Black Dog Institute at UNSW Sydney and as a member of the Women in MedTech Committee of the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA). In 2025, she joined the Strategic Advisory Board of the Centre for Global Epilepsy at the University of Oxford. Robyn was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2016 and made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2017. In 2019, she was listed as one of the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence.
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    rnorton@georgeinstitute.org