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TRUNG TÂM NGHIÊN CỨU Y TẾ CÔNG CỘNG VÀ HỆ SINH THÁI
CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH
CENPHER

 

Speakers

 

Dr Nguyen Viet Hung holds an MSc and a PhD in Life and Environmental Sciences from France and his BSc in Biology from Hanoi. He is working on the interface between environment and health, focusing on environmental health and food safety with an integrative approach (One Health and Ecohealth). He is the co-founder of the Center for Public Health and Ecosystem Research (CENPHER) at Hanoi School of Public Health where he is the regional coordinator of the Ecohealth Field Building Leadership Initiative in Southeast Asia. He is a joint appointee of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). His ultimate research goal is to promote understanding of health issues related to ecosystems and to use research outputs to inform policy to change and improve the health of the most vulnerable populations. His research focuses on the link between health and agriculture, food safety, infectious and zoonotic diseases with an emphasis on the use of risk assessment for food safety management in Southeast Asia.

Prof. Dr. phil.II, Ph.D., MPH Nicole Probst-Hensch

Head Unit  Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Principle Investigator SAPALDIA Cohort & Biobank, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland

Nicole Probst-Hensch holds doctorates in Pharmaceutical Sciences (ETH Zürich/University of Basel) and in Epidemiology (UCLA, Los Angeles, California). She was appointed Assistant Professor at USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles. In Switzerland, she established the National Institute of Cancer Epidemiology and Registration as its first director and in the position of an Associated Professor at the Medical Faculty, University of Zürich. Since 2009 she is Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel. She leads the Unit of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at SwissTPH and integrates research on non-communicable diseases into different economic, cultural, genetic and geographic contexts. She is Deputy Head of the SwissTPH Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. The research of N.Probst-Hensch focuses on cancer, respiratory and cardio-metabolic diseases as well as their interrelation. She and her team integrate genetic and genomic markers obtained in the context of biobanks into their research and apply these biomarkers as research instruments to improve mechanistic and causal understanding of modifiable lifestyle and environmental risks. N. Probst-Hensch is principle investigator of the SAPALDIA Cohort and Biobank, the only Swiss-wide biobank funded for more than 20 years by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

 

Professor, Dr. Vu Sinh Nam is former Deputy Director General, The General Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health. He is Senior Scientific Advisor of the Laboratory of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, member of the Steering Committee of National Dengue Control Program, as well as member of the National Advisory Committee on Vector Borne Diseases Control, Ministry of Health of Vietnam. He is also member of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, WHO-WPRO, 2001-2004 and taking part in several well-known scientific societies in Vietnam such as Vietnamese Society for Entomology, Vietnamese Society for Preventive Medicine, American Mosquito Control Association (1991-1992, 2002), American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2002), The World Association of Copepodologists.

Prior to being Senior Public Health specialist working at the highest level of Preventive Medicine system, Prof, Dr Vu Sinh Nam has worked as Chief of Medical Entomology Laboratory at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, playing a key role in many formative as well as operational researches in the fields of vector-borne diseases (mainly in Dengue and Japanese Encephalitis vectors). He has experienced also as Program Coordinator for National Dengue Control Program in Vietnam from 1999 up to 2009.

Over 30 years of research experiences on vector borne diseases, he has focused on exploring the new epidemiological factors and effective interventions in prevention and control of vectors. Main contributions from his researches are the Dengue vector bio-ecology, vector surveillance and control, the community based dengue surveillance and control, and the use successfully of new biological agent (Mesocyclops) through community participation in dengue prevention and control in Vietnam.

Prof. Vu has been working with many International Agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO-WPRO, TDR); Queensland Institute for Medical Research (QIMR) Australia; Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Australia; the University of Queensland  (UQ) Australia; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; The Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan; The Medical Committee Netherlands-

Vietnam (MCNV); the CDC, Fort-Collins, USA; the Pasteur Institute of Paris, France in areas of vector-borne diseases and public health.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology at Hanoi University (1975), and Diploma in Medical Entomology at Pasteur Institute of Paris (1992), PhD in Epidemiology at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Vietnam (1995). Prof. Vu also is supervisor, Mentor for Medical doctors, Master’s students both National and International undertaking dengue vector researches.

 

Nino Künzli, MD PhD, Professor for Public Health

Nino Künzli, with an MD from Uni Basel and a PhD from UC Berkeley, he became Deputy Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel, Switzerland (www.swisstph.ch) where he heads the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health assembling >190 scientists from various disciplines, including ~100 PhD students. He is Professor of Public Health at the University Basel Medical School. As of 1.1.2015 he got appointed as Dean of Study of the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) (50%; affiliated at SwissTPH).

With >300 peer reviewed articles Künzli’s research focus is on environmental epidemiology with a primary emphasis on understanding the effects of air pollution on health through exposure science and epidemiologic research. He also made key contributions to method development and applications to integrate scientific evidence of health effects of air pollution into policy-relevant risk assessment frameworks. He is in the board of directors of the Swiss SAPALDIA study on air pollution and chronic diseases and chairs Working Groups on air pollution in various European projects. He was tenured Associate Professor at University of Southern California in the group of the Children’s Health Study (2002-2005). As the first epidemiologist to receive an ICREA Research Professor, he had the opportunity to work at the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona (2006-2009).

Künzli regularly serves on national and international advisory committees and was member of two U.S. National Academy of Science committees on air pollution and health impact. Since 2012, he is the President of the Swiss Federal Commission on Air Hygiene – the clean air advisory board of the Swiss Government.

Laura Perez, PhD (♀) is project leader in the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Her work focuses on two main areas, the investigation of health effects of environmental risk in populations (e.g air pollution) and the development and application of health impact assessment methods to evaluate or compare preventive policy strategies to help reduce and eliminate these and other health risks.

 

 Dr. Ann Aerts has been Head of the Novartis Foundation since January 2013, where she has played a key role in devising new policy recommendations. She has the exciting responsibility of heading an organization committed to exploring innovative solutions to public health problems. The Novartis Foundation has the challenging goals of expanding access to quality healthcare and eliminating diseases such as leprosy and malaria.

Before her current role, Ann was Franchise Medical Director Critical Care for Novartis Pharma in Basel and Therapeutic Area Head Cardiovascular and Metabolism in Novartis Pharma Belgium.

Prior to joining Novartis, she served as Director of the Lung and Tuberculosis Association in Belgium, as Head of the Health Services Department of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva and was Health Coordinator for the ICRC in several countries.

Ann holds a Degree in Medicine and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Leuven, Belgium, as well as a Degree in Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. In July 2014, Ann was nominated by PharmaVOICE as one of the 100 Most Inspiring People in the life science industry. Ann has authored numerous publications and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Global Health Group of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability of the University of Zürich, the OECD Network of Foundations Working in Development (NetFWD), and is member of the Steering Board of the World Economic Forum Health Systems Leapfrogging project in Emerging Economies.

Dr. Pham Viet Cuong is a senior lecturer and researcher of the Hanoi School of Public Health. In last 15 years working at  the school he has been involved in the development of public health training programs in Vietnam including Bachelor, Master and Doctor program in Public Health.

Beside of teaching, Dr. Cuong is a strong researcher especially in the area of drowning, road traffic injury, violence and alcohol harmful use prevention. He has provide leadership and technical guidance for number of health research, prevention activities including the National Injury survey 2001 and 2010, International road safety project, Internation Alcohol Study and number of study in injuries. Dr. Cuong is appointed as a secreatariat of Road Traffic Injury Research Network, a worldwide injury research network with member from 115 countries, for the term of 2014-2016. He is also a core member of MENTOR-VIP group, a online capacity building network in the area of injury and violence prevention managed by WHO.  

Dr. Cuong got his PhD in Tulane University with combined major in Biostatistic and International development and has a strong quantitative research background.

Professor Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein is the Deputy Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Head of the unit Human and Animal Health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Switzerland. He is a Professor in Epidemiology, University of Basel and the President of the International Association for Ecology & Health (IAEH). Jakob Zinsstag graduated with a doctorate in veterinary medicine (Dr. med. vet.) at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Berne in 1986 and a PhD in Tropical Animal Production from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Belgium. He has extensive experiences in research partnership with developing countries where he has developed research capacity for many groups in Africa and Asia. From 1990 to end of 1993 he led a livestock helminthosis project for the University of Berne at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia. From 1994 to 1998 he directed the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Since 1998 he leads a research group at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel on the interface of human and animal health with a focus on health of nomadic people and control of zoonoses in developing countries under the paradigm of “one medicine”. Building on the "one medicine" concept developed by Calvin Schwabe, the research group focused on the health care of pastoral nomads and the eradication of zoonoses in developing countries. Jakob has been supporting the creation and development of the Center for Public Health and Ecosystem Research (CENPHER) at Hanoi School of Public Health within the NCCR North-South program.

 

 Christina Wadhwani is Project Manager at the Novartis Foundation, coordinating healthcare projects on access and affordability, specifically around increasing access to medicines and improving health services through telecommunication.

Prior to joining the Novartis Foundation, Christina spent two years at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, exploring cost-effective interventions in low- and middle-income countries to address both the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as responding to the rising burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).

Christina received her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in Health in Crisis and Humanitarian Assistance. She subsequently served as a Research Scholar for the Johns Hopkins National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER) and worked in Hanoi with the Harvard Medical School AIDS Initiative in Vietnam (HAIVN) analyzing the impact of HIV/AIDS health worker training and stigma reduction programs. She also spent two years in New Orleans supporting community members affected by Hurricane Katrina

Christina received her Bachelor’s in Public Health at the George Washington University.

 

Ms. Josselyn Neukom has 18 years of experience engaging the private sector to improve health and address social issues in developing countries. She has held long-term positions based in several developing countries including Zambia, Tanzania and Vietnam.  Ms. Neukom also conducted substantial in-country assignments to build successful private-public mix programs in India, Nepal, Togo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and India among others. She has been closely involved in the design, management and evaluation of several of the most successful clinic social franchises in the world, including New Start franchises in Zambia and Zimbabwe, SUN in Myanmar and Green Star in Pakistan.  Since 2011, Ms. Neukom has served as Country Director for Population Services International (PSI) in Vietnam, where she has led the evolution of PSI’s behavioral and market results, partnerships and senior management team.  Under her leadership, PSI/Vietnam has demonstrated the viability of leveraging existing private clinics and pharmacies—together with behavior change communication campaigns-- to address multiple health priorities in Vietnam including hypertension, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, nutrition and hygiene.  She holds a Masters degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Dartmouth College.

Tran Tuan, MD, PhD

Dr Tuan, a co-founder of the Research and Training Center for Community Development (RTCCD) in 1996, is currently the RTCCD director (since 2003). After graduating from Hanoi Medical University (HMU) with MD and specilization degrees in preventive medicine (1977-86), Dr Tuan mantained his career as a lectures on Epidemiology (1987-2001) and Head of the Community Health Research Unit (CHRU) at HMU (1992-96), and Health Program Coordinator at the Save Children Fund UK Hanoi office (199101994). He got summer courses graduate training in Epidemiology and Field Research Methodology at Umea University, Sweeden (1989;1993) and three-month course of health sector refrom for primary health care in developing countries at IDS of Sussex University UK (1993), before undertaken a Takemi Fellowship in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health (1994095). He pursued PhD program in Epidemiology and Population Health at Melbourne University. His main interests include: primary health care and child development; holistic approaches to mental health and NCDs; organic foods, ecohealth and informal health care system; health insurance and health system reform; Civil Society Organizations capacity building and health policy advocacy in Vietnam. He is a founder and co-founder of the Evidence Based Health Policy Advocacy Alliance (EBHPD), the Vietnam Ban Asbestos Network (Vn-BAN), the TuNa and Green Pie Clinics attached to RTCCD. In his career development, he has been awarded more than 50 research grants from various international development organizations, and was also the author and co-author of 40 peer-review scientific publications and more than 100 local articles, essays, opinion pieces and feature interviews in both local and international media.