Professor Steven Tong is an infectious diseases physician with the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service and a lead of the Clinical and Health Systems Research cross-cutting discipline at the Doherty Institute. He spent 10 years in Darwin before moving Melbourne to join the Doherty Institute in 2016. His research interests include skin pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Group A Streptococcus), hospital infections, Indigenous health, viral hepatitis and influenza. His passion is to apply cutting edge science to address clinically driven questions.
