Professor Steven Tong
Honorary fellow
Qualifications:
PhD, Charles Darwin University, 2010
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours, University of Melbourne, 1998
Fellow Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2006
Graduate Diploma Clinical Epidemiology, Newcastle University, 2010.
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
Associate Supervisor for PhD
Location:
Biography:
Professor Tong is an infectious diseases physician with research interests in infectious diseases affecting Indigenous people. He aims to combine clinical epidemiology with molecular genetic approaches to better understand the patterns and transmission of diseases due to agents such as Staphylococcus aureus, hepatitis B, and influenza.
He was the inaugural Northern Territory Fulbright Scholar and trained at Duke University, North Carolina in 2011. He was also a visiting scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for all of 2012.
He has established numerous collaborations with overseas laboratories as well as fellow clinician-researchers in Australia. He is currently co-leading an international multicentre randomised controlled trial of combination therapy for S. aureus bloodstream infections.
Prof Tong is affiliated with Menzies, the Victorian Infectious Disease Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, and the Doherty Department, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
