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Philayrath Phongsavan is Professor of Public Health in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the School of Public Health and Director of the Prevention Research Collaboration, The University of Sydney.
Philayrath is the academic lead in the disease prevention and health promotion stream in the Master of Public Health and Master of International Public Health degrees. Her research areas are in behavioural science, social epidemiology and health inequality, and investigating the effects of the built environmental on social relations and health behaviours. Philayrath is experienced in pragmatic evaluation of small- to large-scale translational health promotion programs.