Professor Michael Dunne Professor of Social Epidemiology/Director, QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program
Dr Pham Thi Tam National Coordinator, QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program
Dr Thai Thi Ngoc Thuy Assistant National Coordinator, QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program
Jill Nalder Administration Officer, QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program
Linda Murray Senior Research Assistant, QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program
Email m.dunne@qut.edu.au
Professor Michael Dunne’s team at the School of Public Health and Social Work has partnered with faculties of public health in Vietnam to improve the skills of their public health graduates.
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Members of the QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program Management Committee Meeting, Can Tho, Vietnam, January 2007 |
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Supported by a grant of AUD$4.2 million from the Atlantic Philanthropies 
, the aim is to improve the quality of public health teaching and enhance academic staff capacity at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
It is an expansion of a previously successful program with the Hanoi School of Public Health (2002-2006) with this institution now retained as national consultant. The program will run for 4 years (2007-2010) in which time 10 postgraduate degrees and 21 teaching fellowships will have been completed at QUT by Vietnamese faculty.
Twice-yearly national training workshops to examine curriculum and teaching quality in key public health areas will also be completed and special interest groups established to promote ongoing collaboration.
The international relationships developed during this program have had knock-on benefits to QUT, with final year undergraduate public health students undertaking their professional placement in Vietnam.
In 2007, the QUT-Vietnam Public Health Program won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in the category of Partnership and Engagement.