Dr Louise Dunn

Biography

Louise is a Senior Public and Environmental Health Lecturer and the Course Director for the Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health Practice. Before her role at Swinburne, she was employed in environmental health, health promotion and consultant positions with various local government authorities. Louise's teaching and research activities reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the public and environmental health field. They span the areas of food safety, health promotion and evaluation, waste minimisation, work-integrated learning and the practice of environmental health. Louise has also been a representative on several committees involved in developing policy in the public and environmental health field. Louise's PhD investigated environmental health professionals' experiences of their practice using a phenomenographic research approach.  The key outcome of this research was the development of a new holistic experiential description (HEDP) of the professional practice of environmental health. This new description aims to improve practice and education for professional practice in environmental health.