Rate My Professor Christopher Platania-Phung

Dr. Christopher Platania-Phung serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University. He is concurrently a Research Fellow at the Moondani Toombadool Centre, Swinburne University of Technology. Platania-Phung earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). His career trajectory includes roles such as Conjoint Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Newcastle Australia, researcher at the Synergy Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre affiliated with the University of Canberra and ACT Health, academic at the Australian College of Applied Psychology, and positions at Central Queensland University in the Institute for Health and Social Science Research. Earlier, he worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice and Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.

Platania-Phung's research focuses on physical health care and health behaviors among people with serious mental illness, integration of physical health monitoring in mental health nursing, consumer and carer participation in mental health education, research, and service delivery, attitudes and stigma toward mental illness among nursing students and professionals, and capacity building for Indigenous health researchers. His publications include 'Developing an Evidence-Based Specialist Nursing Role to Improve the Physical Health Care of People with Mental Illness' (2019), 'Not an Afterthought: Power Imbalances in Systemic Partnerships Between Health Services, Consumers and Carers' (2018), 'Nursing Student Attitudes to People Labelled with "Mental Illness" and Consumer Participation: A Survey-Based Analysis of Findings and Psychometric Properties' (2019), 'Mental Health Researchers' Views About Service User Involvement' (2018), 'Review and Analysis of the Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program' (2017), and 'Capacity Building of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Researcher Workforce' (2019). With over 4,500 citations documented on Google Scholar, his contributions have influenced health services research, nursing practice, and education in mental health and social sciences.