Georgia Venner holds a Master in Public Health from the University of Alberta and is a PhD candidate at the LSHTM. Working in both academia and as an independent humanitarian consultant, Georgia focuses on using social science and interdisciplinary evidence to highlight the social and political dimensions of humanitarian crises.

Her PhD research focuses on social dynamics, improvisations of care, and power dynamics of frontline healthcare workforces, including refugee health workers, when responding to infectious disease outbreaks in the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh.

Georgia is a global health consultant and currently works as a Research Fellow leading a review to strengthen the Ukraine public health workforce with Kyiv's School of Public Health (NaUKMA-SPH) in partnership with LSHTM. 

Previously, Georgia has worked as a social science researcher for WHO, UKHIH, ALNAP, and has worked on various research projects with LSHTM. Her research has focused on topics including the experiences of South Sudanese refugee health workers in Uganda, RCCE and Ebola in Sierra Leone, and the impact of COVID-19 in UK schools. Additionally, she has extensive experience in project management for humanitarian INGOs overseeing large-scale health programmes.