Biography - Professor David Dunt

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David Dunt (MBBS, FFPH, PhD) is a public health specialist and epidemiologist with major interests in health program evaluation and health services research. His main current interests are in the integration of health services, particularly in the primary care sector, and community-based health promotion projects. Over the years he has evaluated and researched a wide variety of health programs and services in the fields of health promotion, health technology assessment, palliative care and the care of severely intellectually handicapped children. He has published around 160 academic papers and other reports. He is a medical graduate of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Medical School at The University of Melbourne with a PhD in Public Health from Monash University and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (of the Royal College of Physicians, UK).

• Significant research projects recently carried out under David's supervision have included:
• Statewide evaluation of Best Start the Victorian State Government's Early Childhood Development Initiative;
• National Evaluation of the After Hours Primary Medical Care Trials;
• Integration of the General Practitioner into the Wider Healthcare system;
• Evaluation of the Southern Health Care Network Coordinated Care Trial

David has been involved in the development of a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the university, most importantly the Graduate Diploma in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (GDEB) in 1991. His postgraduate teaching currently includes supervision of PhD students, the MPH, GDEB, the Graduate Certificate in Health Services Research and Evaluation as well as the Corporate Awards Program for public servants of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.