Dr. Trung Ton
2017
Susan and Isaac Wakil John Monash Scholar
Doctor of Philosophy in International Development
Oxford
United Kingdom
Medicine and Health, Defence
Trung holds a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Newcastle, a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, a Diploma of Child Health from the University of Sydney, and an International Diploma of Humanitarian Assistance from Fordham University. Trung is a graduate of the Royal Military College Australia, where he was dux of his class. Trung is an emergency medicine registrar and a military engineering officer in the Army Reserve. He has been involved global health leadership and mentoring for medical students and junior doctors, volunteers as a doctor in East Timor, is involved in several IT start ups, and is a photographer. Trung has conducted research on humanitarian health coordination in Syria. His study supported by the John Monash Scholarship will equip him to develop new frameworks for international response to complex humanitarian crises.