On the 16th November, 2017, Hanoi University of Public Health has successfully organized the launching ceremony of research project  “Cultural Adaptation & Evaluation of mHealth Interventions for Smoking Cessation in Vietnam”

 

Participants to this special event included members of Board of Rectors – Prof. Bui Thi Thu Ha – Rector of Hanoi University of Public Health, Assoc.Prof. Hoang Van Minh – Vice Rector of Hanoi University of Public Health, Assoc.Prof Nguyen Thanh Huong – Vice Rector of Hanoi University of Public Health, directors/heads of key departments/agencies/centers of Hanoi University of Public Health. Counterparts to the Hanoi University of Public Health included Prof. Michael Eriksen – Rector of School of Public Health, University of Georgia State; Jidong Huang, PhD and Pamela Redmon, PhD – School of Public Health, University of Georgia State, the United State. 

 

Attendants to the special event also included representatives from Ministry of Health, VINACOSH, World Health Organization in Vietnam, University of Commerce, Hanoi Medical  University, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Bach Mai Hospital, related non-governmental organizations (Health Bridge Canana) and others. 

 

Objectives of the ceremony were to introduce the establishment progress, objectives, timelines, implementation plan, agreements on project implementation in Vietnam as well as to cooperate between two sides during project implementation progress. 

 

The ceremony and mutual signature session on research cooperation between two universities have been successfully assessed and closed on the same day. 

 

The research project will be implemented in five years and funded by NIH, the United State. The long-term goals of this project are to build and strengthen the capacity to develop and disseminate evidence-based, culturally appropriate interventions for smoking cessation using mHealth approaches in China and Vietnam. The specific aims of this project are 1) to develop and examine the efficacy of a culturally-enhanced mHealth intervention to promote smoking cessation among adult male smokers in China and Vietnam; and 2) to build and strengthen sustainable capacity for rigorous research on smoking cessation intervention studies using scalable mHealth methods in China and Vietnam. This project will not only provide timely and much-needed research evidence on the effectiveness of culturally-adapted mHealth approaches in China and Vietnam, but will also build a cadre of local researchers who will be able to carry out independent mHealth smoking cessation interventions. If scaled to population level, these interventions have the potential to help millions of smokers to quit smoking in China and Vietnam.
 

Some photos taken during the ceremony: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Center for Population Health Sciences (CPHS) - Hanoi University of Public Health