Email: ttpt@huph.edu.vn
Hanoi University of Public Health
Dr. Thi Phuong Thao Tran is a senior researcher at the Center for Population Health Sciences, Hanoi University of Public Health. She earned her doctoral degree in Public Health from the National Cancer Center – Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy in South Korea in 2022. During her graduate studies (2017-2022), her research focused on the association between behavioral risk factors (including smoking, alcohol use, physical inactivity, and obesity) and chronic diseases and cancer outcomes. Since 2019, she has been working at Hanoi University of Public Health in Vietnam. While there her research has revolved around tobacco control efforts in Vietnam. She joined several large tobacco control-related projects in Vietnam with funding from the Vietnam Tobacco Control Fund-Ministry of Health, The Union, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and the US National Institutes of Health. In 2023-2024, Dr. Tran completed a postdoctoral fellowship in global tobacco research at Georgia State University School of
Public Health in the United States. Her work now encompasses a global perspective, addressing areas such as e-cigarette use and cessation efforts, perceived harm of tobacco products, dual use of e-cigarettes and combustible tobacco, and social media marketing of tobacco products. To date, she has published 24 peer-reviewed articles, advancing knowledge in tobacco control and public health.
PROJECT: Prevalence of e-cigarette use and vaping quit attempt among adults.