A/Prof Phong Thai is a career researcher with a keen interest in environmental health and monitoring. Phong joined Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) as a Senior Research Fellow after his Fellowship at Queensland University of Technology. His key focus at QAEHS involves the expansion of wastewater based epidemiological approach to determine community consumption and exposure to a range of illicit and licit drugs, pharmaceuticals and personal care products. Besides, he is working on projects of monitoring emerging environmental pollutants in different matrices. Phong has been awarded several competitive fellowships for his research and involved in a number of projects totalling > A$ 2 millions in funding.

Featured projects Duration
Wastewater Analysis for Drug Monitoring in Correctional Facilities
QAEHS HDR Student Project
Understanding Australia by Analysing Wastewater During the Census 2021
ARC Linkage Project
Estimating the Use of Tobacco and Nicotine Products Through Wastewater Analysis
ARC Linkage Project
Third-hand Smoking of Methamphetamine: An Investigation of Airborne Methamphetamine Levels and Remediation Approach
QAEHS HDR Student Project
Using Multiple Data Sources to Understand the Opioid Crisis in Australia
ARC Linkage Project
Wastewater analysis for legal and illicit tobacco use estimation in Australia
Human Exposure to PFAS and their Precursors in the Human Environment and their Biotransformation Processes
National Health and Medical Research Council
Evaluation of PFAS Release from Impacted Concrete and Asphalts
Arcadis US Inc
Understanding Third Hand Exposure of Australian People to Methamphetamine
ARC Linkage Project
The Metabolic Syndrome in Relation to Nutritional Status and Food Consumption Patterns among Adults in Vietnam
QAEHS HDR Student Project
Assessing and Modelling Spatiotemporal Trends of Drug Consumptions in the Community by Wastewater-based Epidemiology
QAEHS HDR Student Project
Improving Estimation of Tobacco Use by Wastewater-based Epidemiology
Australian Research Council
Investigating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Consumption Measured by Wastewater-based Epidemiology
QAEHS HDR Student Project
Realistic Assessment of Biomarker Transformation in the Wastewater System
QAEHS HDR Student Project