About

About Quan K. Nguyen (Quan Khoi Nguyen; Nguyễn Khởi Quân), MD, MPH: education, experience, editorial work and contact details.

Đọc bằng tiếng Việt

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.

Research

I work on infectious-disease epidemiology and health systems in Vietnam: antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis, dengue and electronic health records. Projects, grants and publications are on the Research page.

Education

  • Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2024–2025. Concentration in epidemiological and biostatistical methods. Capstone with Prof. David Dowdy: “Non-TBMC among household contacts in Kharituwe RCTs”, now published in IJTLD (The Union).
  • Graduate Certificate in Clinical Trials, Johns Hopkins University, 2025.
  • Doctor of Medicine, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, 2015–2021. Project on the etiologies of hepatomegaly among hospitalized children, with Prof. Nguyen Huu Chau Duc.

Experience

Besides the current roles above:

  • Researcher, the Kharituwe trial of TB household contact investigation in South Africa, with Prof. David Dowdy (Johns Hopkins).
  • Working-group leader, Prof. Huy Nguyen’s lab, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, 2020–present.
  • Senior collaborator, Global Burden of Disease, IHME, 2023–present.
  • PHASE legislative advocacy intern, Maryland Association of County Health Officers, 2024–2025.
  • Research coordinator, VINCohort study (PI: Prof. Le Cu Linh), 2023–2024. A longitudinal cohort built from electronic health records (hundreds of thousands of health-check records) and nationally representative survey data (WHO STEPS), to measure the burden of noncommunicable diseases in Vietnam. Supported data analysis and paper writing.
  • Research and teaching associate, VinUniversity, 2021–2023. Teaching assistant for Prof. Andrew Taylor-Robinson.
  • Research assistant, VinUni–Illinois Smart Health Center, 2022.
  • Working-group leader, Y Học Cộng Đồng nonprofit, 2018–2023. Wrote more than 100 articles on health knowledge and advocacy, and helped raise US$180,000 for charity and community service.

Editorial work

Languages

Vietnamese (native), English (professional working proficiency), Mandarin (basic).

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