Rate My Professor Brigitte Borg

Brigitte Borg is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Planetary Health at Monash University, where she also holds an adjunct lecturer position in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Holding a Bachelor of Applied Science, she is an accredited clinical physiologist specialising in respiratory science with 27 years of experience. At The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, she serves as Head of the Physiology Service in Respiratory Medicine. Borg has played a key role in the Hazelwood Health Study, acting as Respiratory Stream Coordinator during the first round of clinical assessments in 2017-18 and advancing to Respiratory Stream Lead in 2019. Her research interests include the impact of the Hazelwood coal mine fire on lung health in the Morwell community, the utility of the forced oscillation technique to identify early interstitial lung disease, the utility of the forced oscillation technique to identify early lung allograft dysfunction in lung transplant recipients, and using the SVC manoeuvre within the forced oscillation technique to estimate elastic recoil and airway closure in patients with end-stage lung disease.

Borg has contributed to respiratory science through key publications, including co-authoring the book Interpreting Lung Function Tests: A Step-by-Step Guide (2014) and authoring the position statement Spirometry training courses: content, delivery and assessment from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science (2017). Selected recent publications are Respiratory symptoms after coalmine fire and pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the Hazelwood Health Study adult cohort (2025), Association between PM2.5 from a coal mine fire and FeNO concentration 7.5 years later (2024), Does diet quality moderate the long-term effects of discrete but extreme PM2.5 exposure on respiratory symptoms? A study of the Hazelwood coalmine fire (2024), and Long-term effects of extreme smoke exposure on COVID-19: A cohort study (2024). She received the Denis Robertson Poster Prize for Respiratory Medicine at The Alfred in 2014. Her expertise encompasses lung function interpretation, laboratory accreditation as a TSANZ authorised laboratory assessor, quality spirometry in primary care, and facilitation and content development for spirometry courses.