Dr Dung Phung

Senior Lecturer

School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
d.phung@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 64684

Overview

Dr. Dung Phung has background in both medicine and public health. He has experienced diversity roles from clinical practice, health management, and research and teaching academic before joining to the UQ School of Public Health as a senior lecturer in environmental health.

His research interests focus on health effects in relation to occupational and environmental pollution, climate change, and health interventions. He has developed research expertise and skills in environmental epidemiology, systematic review and meta-analysis, health risk assessment, needs assessment, and policy evaluation. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in ISI journals and been awarded as a chief investigator for 9 research grants (NHMRC and international grants) in climate change, air pollution and health. He has been supervising 21 PhD students (5 principal supervisor - 2 conferred, 16 associate supervisor - 7 conferred) to conduct research in a wide range of public health topics worldwide.

Research Interests

  • Occupational and environmental contamination and health effects
  • Climate change and health
  • Health interventions

Research Impacts

Working in both academic teaching and research in public health, Dr Dung Phung has a keen on translating from complex scientific evidence into policy and practices to meet the needs of population health in developing settings. For instance, his PhD research conducted a probabilistic quantitative health risk assessment to gather evidence on health impact. He then conducted a community needs assessment in order to develop tailored suited strategy to improve farmers’ safety resulting in a set of policy recommendations to health authorities, guidelines to the relevant agricultural sector, and health education for the farming communities in Vietnam. Another example is related to dengue prevention in the Mekong Delta Region. He first developed a climate-based dengue prediction model. Then he took an extra step to design an innovative method to transform the complex statistical models to a user-friendly climate-based dengue prediction score schemes that is easy to use by local preventive medicine authorities and practitioners.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
  • Masters (Research) of Public Health, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
  • Bachelor of General Medicine, Hanoi Medical University

Publications

  • Kien, Nguyen Duc, My, Nguyen H.D., Thu, Dang Thi Anh, Phong, Thai Khanh, Chau, Tran H.B. and Dung, Phung Tri (2024). Reducing consequences of extreme heat: the role of weather information access. Dialogues in Health, 4 100177. doi: 10.1016/j.dialog.2024.100177

  • Nguyen, Hong Lap, Ngo, Quoc Dat, Nguyen, Van Chinh, Ngo, Kien Duc, Lam, Vinh Nien, Dang, Tran Ngoc, Tran, Quang Hien, Phung, Tri Dung, Nguyen, Kim Trung, Nguyen, Truong Vien, Loan, Bui Thi Hong and Tran, Thien Thuan (2024). Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure: Effect on Farmers' Sperm Quality in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Journal of Agromedicine. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2024.2337675

  • Beggs, Paul J., Trueck, Stefan, Linnenluecke, Martina K., Bambrick, Hilary, Capon, Anthony G., Hanigan, Ivan C., Arriagada, Nicolas Borchers, Cross, Troy J., Friel, Sharon, Green, Donna, Heenan, Maddie, Jay, Ollie, Kennard, Harry, Malik, Arunima, McMichael, Celia, Stevenson, Mark, Vardoulakis, Sotiris, Dang, Tran N., Garvey, Gail, Lovett, Raymond, Matthews, Veronica, Phung, Dung, Woodward, Alistair J., Romanello, Marina B. and Zhang, Ying (2024). The 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector. Medical Journal of Australia, 220 (6), 282-303. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52245

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Available Projects

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Tran, Nu Quy Linh, Connell, Des, Hieu Nguyen, Trung and Phung, Dung (2023). Climate change and water-related diseases in the Mekong Delta region. Oxford research encyclopedia of global public health. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.013.460

Journal Article

Conference Publication

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.