Alina McDonald
Research Associate
BSc; LLB (Hons)
Alina McDonald undertook training in science and law at the University of Sydney. She majored in medical sciences, health law and international law. She completed her study of international law at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. After contributing towards an EU-funded bioethics research project based in Berlin, she joined The George Institute for International Health in January 2005 to work on a series of health policy Roundtables with the Chinese Ministry of Health. Alina contributed to two Roundtables, held in Beijing, on issues including patient safety and access to basic health care where she conducted background research and prepared policy reports for the Ministry of Health. In early 2006, she had a short-term secondment to the World Health Organization in Geneva to work with the secretariat for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Alina joined the Health Policy Division in Sydney in June 2006 and in her current role conducts research and analysis including for the project "Malaria product pipeline: planning for the future". She began postgraduate study in intellectual property law in 2007 at the University of Technology, Sydney.