NHMRC Early Career Fellow
BSc (hons), PhD
Dr Foong is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow with the Children’s Lung Health team at the Telethon Kids Institute and holds an adjunct research position at Curtin University. She previously held a Research Fellow position from 2016-2017 at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada working on the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study and continues hold a Research Collaborator position at SickKids. Her early career fellowship focuses on developing skills in environmental epidemiology with the aim to identify environmental risk factors of asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases.
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Projects
In partnership with Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service and the Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service, we aim to improve Aboriginal lung health by determining for the first time the baseline lung function of Aboriginal Australians.
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Publications
February 2020
Early life exposure to coal mine fire smoke emissions and altered lung function in young children
Infant exposure to coal mine fire emissions could be associated with long-term impairment of lung reactance
Published research Children's Lung HealthJanuary 2018The clinical utility of lung clearance index in early cystic fibrosis lung disease is not impacted by the number of multiple-breath washout trials
This study aimed to determine if relationships between LCI and clinical outcomes of CF lung disease differ when only two acceptable MBW trials are assessed.
Published research Children's Lung Health -
Awards/honours
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Education & Qualifications
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Active collaborations