Dr Phuong Hua

Dr Hua is an interdisciplinary research fellow with expertise in public and population health, mental health services and health inequalities. She has extensive experience conducting mixed methods research, including statistical analyses and applying qualitative, participatory approaches to inform policy and practice change. Dr Hua has conducted research directly with service users and healthcare professionals both in the UK and Australia, in collaboration with community organisations and public contributors.

• Postgraduate Research Supervisor Training, Medical School, University of Bristol
• Project Management Tools for Managing Your Research, Research in Practice, University of Bristol
• Design and Data Visualisation Course, University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
• Certificate in Qualitative Research Methods for Public Health Short Course, Monash Public Health and Preventative Medicine
• Certificate in Ethics and Good Research Practice Short Course, Monash Public Health and Preventative Medicine
• Certificate in an Introduction to Systematic Reviews of Health Interventions Short Course, Monash Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences (presented by Cochrane Australia)
• Foundations of Teaching Associates and Building on Foundations of Teaching Associates, Monash University Continuing Education Excellence Development
• Certificate in An Introduction to Teaching ESL/EFL, Monash Training and Professional Development

• Mixed methods
• Inclusive research practices
• Participatory action research
• Interdisciplinary research

• Research Fellow, NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), 06/01/24, 12/01/24, Qualitative evaluation of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategies for BRCs and Clinical Research Facilities, Presentation of results at the BRC and CRF EDI conference (Birmingham, October 2024), Bristol BRC EDI group (November 2024), Led research article submitted to BMC Health Services Research
• Research Fellow, Doctoral co-supervisor, Medical School, University of Bristol, 01/01/24, Present, Transforming Outcomes for Paediatric Allergy in Primary Care - Centre for Applied Excellence in Skin & Allergy Research (CAESAR), Led first systematic review of real world use of topical treatments for childhood eczema (PROSPERO 2024 CRD42024538853), Managed recruitment of over 50 GP practices across England for surveys/interviews and liaised with NIHR Research Delivery Networks, Led ethics application to NHS Research Ethics Service and Research Ethics Committees, Co-applicant for successful NIHR RfPB grant: NIHR207924 – Co-design of a dietary public health intervention for the prevention of IgE-mediated food allergy
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (Part-time), Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, 09/01/22, 01/01/24, A Realist Evaluation of a Programme of Work by Synergi Collaborative Centre to Motivate Systems Change and Reduce Ethnic Inequalities in the Experience of Severe Mental Illness.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate and Teaching Assistant (Part-time), Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University, 11/01/21, 12/01/23, Institutional Racism in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Wards, funded by NIHR ARC North Thames Academy., Conducted Patient and Public Involvement work with Service User and Carer Group Advising on Research (SUGAR) and steering committees with staff at NHS England & NHS Improvement., Awarded Centre for Public Engagement Small Grant Scheme (Queen Mary University), 2023, Presented at NIHR ARC Mental Health Theme meetings, Applied Research Centre (ARC) Early Career Research Network meetings
• Supervisor and Instructor, Graduate Diploma of Psychology – Advanced, Monash University, 08/01/20, 11/01/21, Principal Investigator of Honours/4th year research projects, Instructor – PSY 4405: Ethical and professional issues in psychology including cultural competency and understanding intersectionality
• Sessional Teaching Associate, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, 02/01/17, 11/01/21, Prepared and led tutorials and student consultation sessions for third year core psychology units: Psychological Testing, Theories of Ability and Ethics, Research Methods and Theory, Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Perception and Cognition.

• Social determinants of health
• Health inequalities and social justice
• Health systems research
• Multimorbidity
• Public health

• BPSYCH (HONS)
• PhD