Dr Mandy Truong is a Research Fellow who works on a range of projects examining and addressing the social determinants of health. 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’ (Menzies School of Health Research).

Mandy is a passionate and highly motivated researcher whose primary research and teaching interests centre on examining and addressing the social determinants of health and social inequalities related to racism, discrimination and gender inequality. She 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 and family violence.

Her doctoral research involved a case study of organisational cultural competence in a community health setting, exploring client and staff perspectives of the impact of cultural background in health service utilisation and the utility of cultural competence organisational assessment.

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.