Off-Campus Mentors

Email: hvm@huph.edu.vn.
Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam

Prof. Minh is currently Rector for research of the Hanoi University of Public Health. Director, Center for Population Health Sciences, Hanoi University of Public Health, Viet Nam. He is also the Editor-in-chief, Journal of Health and Development Studies.

Prof. Hoang Van Minh graduated from Hanoi Medical University in 1994. He got Master and PhD degree from Umeå International School of Public Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden in 2001 and 2006, respectively

Prof. Minh specializes in health research methods and health system and health economics. He has been leading a number of international and national health researches on various issues of health system and health economics in Vietnam, including several NHI, MRC funded projects. He has about 300 scientific articles published in international peer- reviewed journals.

Prof. Minh is a member of Independent Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam. Member of Steering Committee of the Vietnam Health Economics Association (VHEA), the Vietnam Public Health Association (VPHA).  He is a member the Member of Editorial Board of Scientific Journals: Global Health Action (Sweden); Medicine (USA); Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (Korea); Vietnam Journal of Public Health, Vietnam Journal of Communicable Diseases. Vietnam Journal of Public Health (Vietnam); and Vietnam Journal of Communicable Diseases (Vietnam). He has been working as consultants for research methods and health economics for different organization such as WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, etc.

PROJECT: STEPS Survey for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) risk factors in Vietnam 2015 and 2020. Global Adult Tobacco Survey (at provincial level in Vietnam: PGATS 2020, 2022, 2024) – Secondary data

Email: ntnp@huph.edu.vn
Hanoi University of Public Health

Ms. Phuong is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Population Health Sciences, Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam with a major in epidemiology of non-communicable diseases. Her primary research focus on the implementation of tobacco control policies in Vietnam, a critical public health issue in a rapidly developing Southeast Asian nation. Specifically, she aims to investigate the challenges and opportunities in implementing and enforcing comprehensive tobacco control measures in Vietnam, considering the country’s unique social, economic, and cultural context. She also collaborates with the Vietnamese government, especially Ministry of Health – Vietnam Tobacco Control Fund, and diverse health stakeholders who are aligned in their concerns and interests regarding tobacco control efforts in Vietnam like The Union, Vital Strategies, TCFK. Further, she is also in charge of co-investigator for the project of examining e-cigarettes and HTPs use among middle- and high-school students in Vietnam in 2023/24. Along with the project management, she published around 12 peer-reviewed articles on tobacco use and various aspects of risk factors in Vietnam.

ORCID: 0000-0002-3615-0698

PROJECT: Secondhand data: A longitudinal study of Vietnam’s international tobacco control project in 2018-2020.

Email: vhl@huph.edu.vn
Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam

Professor Lan Vu is a medical doctor and social epidemiologist. She had served as the Chair of the Faculty of Fundamental Science at Hanoi University of Public Health and also as the Director of the Department of Epidemiology for more than 12 years. She maintains her own research portfolio, focusing on the social epidemiology of HIV, non-communicable diseases, and tobacco control. She has published over 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals on public health issues in Vietnam. Additionally, in the past 10 years, she has been a Principal Investigator (PI) or a Co-Investigator (Co-I)
on over 30 research projects. Professor Lan Vu has developed strong collaborations with health stakeholders in Vietnam, serving as a technical advisor for multiple national surveys. Currently, she is the PI for an MRC UK ASEAN network project on AI-Enabled Healthcare Research and Innovation using wearable technologies and Co-I on two NIH grants for implementation research. She is also leading the project using Vietnam Health Insurance data over a 6-year period to examine the overall burden of disease, key cost drivers of different healthcare services, and top prevalent diseases by geography in Vietnam.

PROJECT: STEPS Survey for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) risk factors in Vietnam 2015 and 2020

Email: btq@huph.edu.vn.
Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam

Associate Professor Bui Thi Tu Quyen is a medical doctor and biostatistician. She has been Chair of the Faculty of Fundamental Science at Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH) since February 2024 and Director of the Department of Biostatistics for over 12 years. Her research centers on public health issues in Vietnam, especially in the areas of HIV, tuberculosis, chronic diseases, and tobacco control. She has published more than 50 papers in international journals.

Over the past decade, Associate Professor Quyen has led or co-led more than 30 research projects. She has also established strong partnerships with health organizations in Vietnam, offering technical advice for various national health surveys. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator on an MRC UK ASEAN project focused on AI-enabled healthcare using wearable devices and serves as a Co-Investigator on two NIH grants for health research

PROJECT: STEPS Survey for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) risk factors in Vietnam 2015 and 2020

Email: tth2@huph.edu.vn
Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 

– Environmental health risk assessment and risk communication.

– Climate change and health impacts; V&A assessment

– Emerging – reemerging infectious diseases, Ecohealth, One Health.

– Air pollution and health impacts; Water, sanitation and waste management intervention programs.

– Assessing the sustainability of public health intervention programs.

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Associate Prof Hanh Tran graduated Bachelor, MPH and PhD degrees in Environmental Health/Public Health in Australia. Currently, Hanh is a senior lecturer in Environmental Health and head of the Research Management and Cooperation Department at Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH). She is responsible for supporting the Rector and management board to grow the research portfolio for the University, mentoring junior faculty in their professional development and has her own research portfolio focusing on environmental health risk assessment, risk communication, dioxin research, climate change and health, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, NCDs and other Environmental Health/Public Health issues. In the past 22 years, she has been managing/implementing over 20 Public Health/Environmental Health projects in collaboration with partners in the UK, Canada, Sweden, Thailand and Vietnam. In addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, implementing research projects, and advocating for policy development, Hanh has been a reviewer for over 10 international peer-reviewed journals, has published over 60 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals, over 40 articles in national peer-reviewed journals and 24 books as an editor/author. Her H-index is 23; i10 index is 43, and the number of citations is 2318 (Google Scholar). Details about projects that Hanh has implemented and her publications are listed here:

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tuyet_Hanh_Tran

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=ULwm2GwAAAAJ&hl=en

Over the years, Hanh has developed extensive networks and collaborations with various health stakeholders at different levels who are committed to improving health care in Vietnam.

PROJECT: Global Adult Tobacco Survey (at provincial level in Vietnam: PGATS 2020, 2022, 2024) – Secondary data.

Email: nnb@huph.edu.vn
Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam

Associate Professor Ngoc Bich Nguyen is a medical doctor and Environmental and Occupational Health specialist. She is currently the Head of the Faculty of Environmental and Occupational Health at Hanoi University of Public Health and also as the. Her research interests are on Environmental and Occupational sciences, especially on ergonomics, risk assessment. She also involves in in research and intervention on Tobacco Control. She has published over 60 papers in domestic and international peer-reviewed journals on public health issues in Vietnam.

Currently, she is the PI for an NIH grants for implementation research. She is also leading other project on Food Environment in Vietnam.

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.

Email: ptn1@huph.edu.vn
Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam

Associate Professor, PhD. Pham Tien Nam is Head of the Department of Social Work, Hanoi University of Public Health under the Ministry of Health of Vietnam. He is a senior lecturer, with more than 10 years of experience teaching and researching social work and mental health. His main research interests are social work in health and mental health. He has over 20 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals under Scopus and ISI. In addition, Associate Professor, PhD. Pham Tien Nam is also a consultant for Departments under the Ministry of Health of Vietnam and international
organizations such as UNICEF, UNFPA and etc in policy making to develop social work in health care, child protection and health care for the elderly in Vietnam. Currently, Associate Professor, PhD. Pham Tien Nam has received funding from the Nafosted Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam to conduct research on social support and some influencing factors for critically ill patients at some central hospitals in Vietnam.

PROJECT: Research on social support and some influencing factors for critically
ill patients at some central hospitals in Vietnam

Dr Tran Thanh Huong is the Vice Director of the National Institute for Cancer Control; Vice Director of the Bright Future Foundation, a supportive fund for cancer patients; and Vice Head of the Department of Ethics and Health Psychology at Hanoi Medical University.

Dr Huong has extensive expertise in developing, evaluating and capacity building for evidence-based identifying risk factors of cancer. She leads the curriculum development on social determinants of non-communicable diseases and health psychology for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Hanoi Medical University. She currently is coordinator for a program on breast cancer prevention and the program “Improvement for Cancer Control in Vietnam: Selection of Appropriate Techniques for Breast and Cervical Cancer in Low-Middle Income Countries.” She also runs several programs to promote more accessible medicines for cancer patients. More recently, she is expanding her cancer-care interest to look at psychosocial intervention to support cancer patients. She plans to build on this work and integrate her expertise in evidence-based practices for cancer care.

Dr Huong earned her medical degree from Hanoi Medical University in 1996 and completed a PhD on psychosocial medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, in 2006.

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