About

Background, education, experience, editorial work and contact details.

Đọc bằng tiếng Việt

I am an infectious-disease epidemiologist in Hanoi, Vietnam, trained as a physician. I build reproducible R analyses that turn Vietnam’s national surveillance data into policy. I also collaborate with the Global Burden of Disease study and led the translation of the official Vietnamese edition of R for Data Science.

I studied medicine at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy (MD, 2021) and epidemiological and biostatistical methods at Johns Hopkins University (MPH, 2025). My interests are antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis, cost-effectiveness modeling, R programming, and building capacity for health technology assessment in low- and middle-income countries.

I’ve been lucky to work with and learn from generous mentors: Prof. David Dowdy at Johns Hopkins University, on the Kharituwe randomized controlled trial; Prof. Andrew Taylor-Robinson at the College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, on many infectious disease projects; and Prof. Le Cu Linh, also at the College of Health Sciences, on the VINCohort study.

Current role

Research Fellow at the College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity (since 2025), and International Scholar at the Center for Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. I am also an analyst and co-investigator in Vietnam’s national AMR data-to-policy program with the Ministry of Health, VinUniversity and US CDC (since 2026).

Education

  • Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2024–2025. Concentration in epidemiological and biostatistical methods. Capstone with Prof. David Dowdy: “Non-TBMC among household contacts in Kharituwe RCTs”.
  • Graduate Certificate in Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins University, 2025.
  • Doctor of Medicine, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, 2015–2021. Project on the etiologies of hepatomegaly among hospitalized children, with Prof. Nguyen Huu Chau Duc.

Experience

Besides the current roles above:

  • Researcher, tuberculosis epidemiology and intervention analysis, with Prof. David Dowdy (Johns Hopkins) and Vietnam’s National TB Programme, early phase.
  • Working-group leader, Prof. Huy Nguyen’s lab, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, 2020–present.
  • Senior collaborator, Global Burden of Disease, IHME, 2023–present.
  • PHASE legislative advocacy intern, Maryland Association of County Health Officers, 2024–2025.
  • Research coordinator, VINCohort study (PI: Prof. Le Cu Linh), 2023–2024. A longitudinal cohort built from electronic health records (hundreds of thousands of health-check records) and nationally representative survey data (WHO STEPS), to measure the burden of noncommunicable diseases in Vietnam. Supported data analysis and paper writing.
  • Research and teaching associate, VinUniversity, 2021–2023. Teaching assistant for Prof. Andrew Taylor-Robinson.
  • Research assistant, VinUni–Illinois Smart Health Center, 2022.
  • Working-group leader, Y Học Cộng Đồng nonprofit, 2018–2023. Wrote more than 100 articles on health knowledge and advocacy, and helped raise US$180,000 for charity and community service.

Editorial work

Languages

Vietnamese (native), English (professional working proficiency), Mandarin (basic).

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