Dr Mandy Truong is a Research Fellow who works on a range of projects within multi-disciplinary teams examining and addressing the social determinants of health. Her primary interests are: institutional racism, cultural safety and health equity. Mandy draws on interdisciplinary work within the social sciences to analyse how gender, race, religion and class intersect on a broad range of public health issues, with particular focus on health service provision, racism and family violence. She has extensive research and teaching experience in the areas of cultural competence and cultural safety in health care practice and organisational change.

At present, her main work centres on a project investigating the risk factors for family homicide with A/Prof Lyndal Bugeja at Monash University. She is also a Senior Project Officer on the NHMRC project ‘Return to Country: A national platform study to return Indigenous renal patients home’. Mandy is a lecturer in the NUR1013 unit Indigenous Health for Nursing and Midwifery Practice and a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce Development Group, Health Education Research Network, Monash Centre for Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE).

Mandy has experience conducting rigorous qualitative research with children and adults from diverse cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds. She also has experience using surveys and mixed methods in research.

Mandy is also a registered Optometrist with over 17 years of clinical experience.