Background

Peter McGlynn has a background in International Public Health, disaster response and broad-based development in the Papua New Guinea context and is the director of a community-based NGO in rural East Sepik Province, PNG.

His PhD topic is “Local maternal & child health data informing health policy and practice in rural East Sepik Province, PNG”. He is being supervised by Associate Professor Stanley Luchters (Burnet), Professor Jane Fisher (Jean Hailes), Professor Andre Renzaho (UWS) and Professor Mike Toole AM (Burnet). The PhD research is assessing the local evidence of nutritional status on the health and mortality of children and mothers in rural PNG. Peter has previously worked in disaster response with the International Medical Corps in both Albania and Kosova.

His undergraduate degree was in Applied Science (Chiropractic) with post-graduate studies in neuroscience and functional neurology. He has over 20 years clinical experience as well as being active in undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Appointments

• Public Health Association of Australia.
• World Public Health Nutrition Association
• Nutrition Society of Australia

Qualifications

• 2010: MPH, Monash University, Australia
• 1984: B.App.Sc., RMIT, Australia

Publications (3)

2018 (1)

• Critical examination of evidence for the nutritional status of children in Papua New Guinea - a systematic review.
  McGlynn PJ, Renzaho AΜ, Pham MD, Toole M, Fisher J, Luchters S
  Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2018 Jan; 27(1):1-18

2016 (2)

• Performance of point-of-care CD4 testing technologies in resource-constrained settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Pham MD, Agius PA, Romero L, McGlynn P, Anderson D, Crowe SM, Luchters S
  BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Oct; 16(1):592
• Acceptability and feasibility of point-of-care CD4 testing on HIV continuum of care in low and middle income countries: a systematic review.
  Pham MD, Agius PA, Romero L, McGlynn P, Anderson D, Crowe SM, Luchters S
  BMC Health Serv Res. 2016 Aug; 16(1):343