Quan K. Nguyen
Nguyễn Khởi Quân · MD, MPH
I love building and fixing things that matter, and sharing them with the wider community. Trained as a physician (Hue University) and in epidemiology and biostatistics (MPH, Johns Hopkins), I am a Research Fellow at VinUniversity and an International Scholar at Penn’s Center for Global Health, working at the intersection of R programming, spatial epidemiology, and disease burden estimation.
So far, my projects have focused on measuring disease burden and where it concentrates. My next chapter is about building solutions: combining disease modeling, diagnostic and economic evaluation, and pragmatic trials to design better ways to find and test cases, proving not just what works but what is feasible, reliable, and affordable where it counts.
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), where I am principal investigator of a VinUniversity Seed Grant on ESKAPE+ antimicrobial resistance, 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), which takes the Seed Grant’s work from one institution to the national scale.
Selected work
A “paradox of progress” shapes the social determinants of infectious diseases in Vietnam, 1975–2025.
Quan NK, Taylor-Robinson AW. Nature Communications, 2026. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71419-7
R for Data Science, official Vietnamese edition.
I am its sole translator, endorsed by Hadley Wickham and O’Reilly. The original is by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Garrett Grolemund. vn.r4ds.hadley.nz
Mô hình Kinh tế Y tế với R (Health economic modeling with R).
A free course in Vietnamese: Markov models, microsimulation, transmission models and AMR economics, built from scratch in R with infectious-disease examples from Vietnam. Not public at the moment.
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Contact
- Email: nguyenkhoiquan#gmail#com
- Google Scholar
- GitHub