Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hien Tran Nguyen
Director
National Institute of Hygiene & Epidemiology and Chairman, Sub - Committee of HIV/AIDS Surveillance Vietnam 

 
Member since: 12/18/2009
Countries or Region: Vietnam 

Biography

Associate Professor Nguyen Tran Hien is Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), a leading scientific research institute in Vietnam in the areas of epidemiology, medical microbiology, immunology and molecular biology, and vaccine development. He graduated from Hanoi Medical College, Vietnam in 1978. He did 2 years (1986-1988) postgraduate training in epidemiology and clinical immunology at the National Institute for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Berlin, Germany. He obtained a Master of Public Health qualification in health development at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1992-1993), and in 2002, he got a PhD degree at Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dr. Hien has a lot of experience in the surveillance and prevention and control of HIV/AIDS and other emerging and re-emerging diseases in Vietnam. He has published more than 30 scientific papers in both international and Vietnam's journals. Dr Nguyen Tran Hien is also Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Training of Hanoi Medical University.