Dr Michael Tong

MBBS, MPH, PhD
Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Health
ANU College of Health and Medicine
T: +61 2 6125 8816

Areas of expertise

  • Climate Change Impacts And Adaptation 4101
  • Health Economics 380108
  • Health Services And Systems 4203
  • Environmental Epidemiology 420203
  • Public Health 4206

Research interests

  • Climate change and population health
  • Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
  • Environmental risk and health impact assessment
  • Environmental health
  • Heatwaves and extreme weather events
  • Healthcare cost evaluation
  • Health system capacity building

 

Biography

Michael Tong is a Senior Research Fellow in Environment, Climate and Health Group at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. He is an experienced medical science and public health researcher with a strong background in environmental health, epidemiology, risk assessment, climate change, healthcare cost evaluation, public and community health promotion, and vulnerable population health research. 

Michael has both quantitative and qualitative research skills as well as experience in cross-cultural research in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. He has successfully conducted several international and national projects, and government consultancy projects. His research and consultancy work has focused on burden of disease assessments, including environmental risk assessment, health impacts of extreme heat and climate change, community health promotion for climate change adaptations, health system capacity building and health policy development. 

Michael is currently leading the National Environmental Risk Assessment at Australian National University including topics on climate change, heatwave, air pollution, bushfire, flood, drought and other extreme weather events on population health. 

Michael has also gained extensive knowledge and skills in Public Health Teaching and Supervision. He had reviewed and developed public health subjects, including epidemiology, biostatistics, global and environmental health, social determinants of health, and supervised PhD and MPH students.

 

Current student projects

PhD candidates

2021-2024    Lei Wan: Health impacts of ambient PM2.5 pollution across regions and age groups in China.


MPH research students

2022-2023    Sue Strickland: Association between built environmental features and health 

 

Past student projects

PhD candidates

2020-2024    Yohannes Tefera Damtew: Climate change and burden of infectious disease in Australia: Current Attributable Risk and Future Burden

2017-2021     Berhanu Wondmagegn: Health economic costs due to heatwaves in South Australia

 

MPH research students

2021-2022    Yannan Li: Climate change and its impact on crimes in South Australia 

2020             Tianyu Song: The relationship between hand-foot-and-month disease and climatic factors 

2020             Jiawei Liang: The impact of climate change and diarrhea on children’s health 

 

Publications

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

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