Researcher

Title and position

Researcher – Center of Health Population Research

Contact information

Email: ngantran.hsph@gmail.com 

Phone: +84 98 290 1618,

LinkedIn: https://vn.linkedin.com/in/ngantran

Education

• Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and University of Copenhagen; MSc International Health (Erasmus Mundus scholarship from European Commission); 2013-2014
• Hanoi School of Public Health; BSc Public Heath (valedictorian); 2007-2011

Foreign language

• IELTS 7.0
• Good in speaking and writing

Personal skills and competences

• Competent at Microsoft Office™ tools
• Good command of using statistic software (SPSS, Stata and Epi Data)
• Good in team-work as well as individual working
• Work well under pressure and can handle multi-task simultaneously 
• Dedicated and determined to the project with high enthusiasm in order to achieve best results
• Good communication, interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills

Countries of Work Experience

Vietnam, Netherlands

Key Qualifications

• Design and conduct epidemiological and social research (including proposal writing, data collection designing, data collection, data analysis, report writing and results presentation)
• Tutoring, guiding on students’ assignments

Research projects/survey

• 2017: Building data repository for research on tobacco in Vietnam (Vietnam Tobacco Control Fund)
• 2014 - 2015: Assess impact of cigarette pictorial health warnings on smokers’ intention to quit. Own project (Funded by Vietnam Public Health Association)
• 2011: Literature review on the impact of graphic health warnings on cigarette package. Own project
• 2010: Evaluate the effect of “policies to prohibit smoking in public places” in Vietnam (Vietnam Public Health Association)
• 2017: Research on breast cancer services in Vietnam (Queen’s University Belfast)
• 2016-2018: Baseline survey for the Communities for Healthy Hearths (CH2) Project in Ho Chi Minh city (Novartis Foundation, PATH and Lotus Impact)
• 2016: Baseline community survey on the status of heath and quality of life of people in Chi Linh, Hai Duong Province (Atlantic Philanthropies)
• 2016: Evaluation of integrated model for NCD and mental disorder prevention and management at commune health station and community in Hanam province (WHO)
• 2016: Baseline community survey for Health System Strengthening Project (Seoul National University)

Publications

1. Ngan T Tran, Anh V Le, Bich N Nguyen. Impact of the new Vietnamese pictorial health warnings on male smokers’ intention to quit smoking. Poster presentation. 6^th Conference of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Asia Pacific Region. Tokyo, Japan, 22-25 March 2017

2. Ngan TT and Bich NN, Changes in knowledge and attitude of male smokers towards Vietnamese pictorial cigarette pack warnings over time. Oral presentation. 47^th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Liverpool, United Kingdom. 26-29 October 2016
3. Ngan TT, Anh LV, My NTT, Bich NN. Changes in Vietnamese Male Smokers’ Reactions Towards New Pictorial Cigarette Pack Warnings Over Time. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2016;17 Suppl:71-8
4. Minh HV, Ngan TT, Mai VQ, My NTT, Chung LH, et al. Tobacco Control Policies in Vietnam: Review on MPOWER Implementation Progress and Challenges. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2016;17 Suppl:1-9
5. N Tran and DW Meyrowitsch. The association between pictorial health warnings and quit smoking intention among male smokers in Vietnam. Poster presentation. 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. Abu Dhabi, UAE. 17-21 March 2015
6. Ngan TT and Bich NN. Status of health warnings on cigarette packs in Vietnam: The powerlessness of text-only health warnings and the vigorously support of people for pictorial health warnings. Poster presentation. 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. Singapore. 20-24 March 2012
7. Minh HV, Ngan TT, Ngoc NB, Kien VD, Mai VQ, et al. Methods for the 2016 socio-economic and health survey in Chi Linh Health and Demographic Surveillance System (CHILILAB HDSS). Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
8. Kien VD, Minh HV, Ngoc NB, Phuong TB, Ngan TT, Mikkel Q. Inequalities in household catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment associated with non-communicable diseases in Chi Linh, Hai Duong, Vietnam. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
9. Minh HV, Mai VQ, Nhung NV, Hoi LV, Giang KB, Chung LH, Kien VD, Duyen NT, Ngoc NB, Anh TT,  Phuong TB, Ngan TT, Huyen KP. Costs of providing tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment services in Vietnam. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Scholarships and awards

• 2017: Travel grant for poster presentation at 6th Conference of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Asia Pacific Region. Tokyo, Japan, 22-25 March 2017
• 2016: Travel grant for oral presentation at the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool, UK (26-29 October 2016)
• 2016: Platinum scholarship (cover transportation, accommodation and per diem) for attending the Global Health True Leaders 2016 in Indonesia
• 2015: Have been convoked to sit the 2015 United Nation Young Professionals Program for the job family Social Affairs (maximum 40 candidate per country per year)
• 2013-2014: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (covered tuition fee, living cost and health insurance) for studying European Master of Science in International Health in Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark).
• 2012: Main Conference Scholarship for attending and poster presenting at 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore
• 2012: Scholarship from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and University of California, San Francisco for attending the training workshop on survival analysis
• 2011: Graduated as Valedictorian of Hanoi School of Public Health with GPA 8.47/10 (Diploma of merit from Vietnam Student Association)
• 2011: Odon Vallet Scholarship for excellent student and young researcher
• 2011: Hanoi School of Public Health Dean Scholarship for student who has the best academic results (value: 1 year tuition fee)
• 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011: Vietnamese Government Scholarship for excellent student (value each: 1 semester tuition fee)