Dr Mandy Truong

Senior project officer

Qualifications:

PhD University of Melbourne 2016 ; Masters Public Health University of Melbourne 2010; Bachelor of Optometry University of Melbourne 2002

Location:

Melbourne

Biography:

Mandy is a Senior Project Officer on the NHMRC funded project “Return to Country: A national platform study to return Indigenous renal patients home.

She is interested in culture, race, diversity and inclusion, particularly as it relates to health care provision and patient-practitioner communication. Mandy’s research areas include cultural competency, racism, racial/ethnic health inequities and family violence.

Mandy received her PhD in Public Health at the University of Melbourne in 2016. Her doctoral research involved a case study of organisational cultural competence in a community health setting. She completed her Masters in Public Health in 2010 and has also been a practicing optometrist for over 15 years.

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Research Themes
  1. M., Truong, Y., Paradies, N., Priest 2014. Interventions to improve cultural competency in healthcare: a systematic review of reviews, BMC Health Services Research 14 (1), 99
  2. ​​​​N., Priest, Y., Paradies, B., Trenerry, M., Truong, S., Karlsen, Y., Kelly. 2013. A systematic review of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and wellbeing for children and young people Social science & medicine 95, 115-127
  3. Y.,  Paradies, M., Truong, N., Priest 2014. A systematic review of the extent and measurement of healthcare provider racism. Journal of general internal medicine 29 (2), 364-387
  4. Y., Paradies, N., Priest, J., Ben, M., Truong, A., Gupta, A., Pieterse, Ma.,  Kelaher, and G., Gee. 2013. Racism as a determinant of health: a protocol for conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic reviews 2, (1): 85.
  5. L., Gibbs, E., Waters, A., De Silva, E., Riggs, L., Moore, C., Armit, B., Johnson, M., Morris, H., Calache, M., Gussy, D., Young, M., Tadic, B., Christian, I.,  Gondal, R., Watt, V.,  Pradel, M.,  Truong, Lisa Gold. 2013. An exploratory trial implementing a community-based child oral health promotion intervention for Australian families from refugee and migrant backgrounds: a protocol paper for Teeth Tales. BMJ open 4 (3), e004260
  6. M., Truong, G., Fuscaldo 2012. Optometrists' perspectives on cross‐cultural encounters in clinical practice: a pilot study. Clinical and Experimental Optometry 95 (1), 37-42
  7. M., Truong, L.,Gibbs, Y., Paradies, N., Priest, M., Tadic. 2017 Cultural competence in the community health context:‘we don’t have to reinvent the wheel’. Australian journal of primary health 23 (4), 342-347
  8. M., Truong, L., Gibbs, V., Pradel, M., Morris, P., Gwatirisa, M., Tadic, A., de Silva, M., Hall, D., Young, E., Riggs, H., Calache, M., Gussy, R., Watt, I., Gondal, E., Waters 2017. A Cultural Competence Organisational Review for Community Health Services: Insights From a Participatory Approach. Health promotion practice 18 (3), 466-475
  9. M., Truong, S., Selig. 2017 Advancing cultural competence in optometry Clinical and Experimental Optometry 100 (4), 385-387
  10. M., Truong, SA., Bentley, GA., Napper, DJ., Guest, MD., Anjou. 2014 How Australian and New Zealand schools of optometry prepare students for culturally competent practice. Clinical and Experimental Optometry 97 (6), 540-549