International Public Health: Culture, Faith and Social Justice

Thursday, April 19, 6:30-7:30pm

Nhan Tran
Manager, Implementation Research Platform (IRP), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Before joining the World Health Organization, Dr. Tran worked as a health systems researcher at Johns Hopkins University, where he led the development of an HIV surveillance system in Afghanistan and conducted studies on improving road safety interventions in Russia, Cambodia and Vietnam. He also spent 10 years working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he designed and managed research studies to inform national strategies for the delivery of family planning services. Over the years Tran has acquired vast experience dealing with people from different cultures, religions and political systems. He will speak about the influence that culture and faith have on health outcomes and the role of public health policies and programs in addressing these issues.

Dr. Nhan Tran is currently Manager of the Implementation Research Platform (IRP) of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) within the World Health Organization. In this capacity, he oversees work carried out in the three focus areas of the IRP: evidence-to-policy, capacity strengthening and programmatic research. He is also responsible for the coordination of activities among the IRP partners within and outside of the WHO. Tran completed his undergraduate training in International Relations and French Literature at Pacific University and the University of Paris Sorbonne. He earned his graduate and postdoctoral qualifications in International Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.



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