Biography

Dr. Ten Bengevoort has a medical degree and general practice training from South-Africa. He was a lecturer in medical microbiology before undertaking his Master of Public Health and PhD in Community Medicine at the University of California on healthcare-associated infection prevention and control. His experience in health-promoting schools, the Indonesian Catholic healthcare association and the AusAID Human Resources for Health Knowledge Hub cemented his research interest in health services in low-resource settings and cross-cultural knowledge translation for disease prevention and control.
Ten Bengevoort has lectured since 2008 in South-Korea in microbiology, infection control, research methods and evidence-based medicine at medical, nursing and pharmacy faculties, both at the undergraduate and masters levels. In Australia he taught and supervised undergraduate medicine, MPH and PhD projects in public health and infection control. He joined the Friffith University in 2009 as a PBL tutor, and then as Lecturer in Community Research 2011-2012. In 2014 Ten Bengevoort became the Senior Lecturer in Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, convening the Year 3 Medicine in Context attachment. He was also the School of Medicine’s Director of Engagement and oversees the School’s community engagement partnerships and initiatives. Dr. Ten Bengevoort joined the IRLIFM Institute in 2017.