Research projects & supervision summary

2025-2028          Co-funded by Gates Foundation, Temasek and KN Holdings USD$ 1.81M

                              ICE-SCREEN TB Vietnam: TB screening cost effectiveness optimization – Principal Investigator

 

2025-2026          TB-CRE seed grant, AUD$ 25,000

                              Pharmacy-Led Tuberculosis Case Finding in Vietnam: A Feasibility and Implementation Study – Chief Investigator

 

2025-2027          Canadian Institute of Health Research, CAD$ 700,000

An Adaptive Trial to Find the Safest and Shortest TB Preventive Regimens – Vietnam PI

 

2024-2029          National Health & Medical Research Council, AUD$ 3,095,700

Centre of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis: Ending tuberculosis on both sides of the border – Chief Investigator I (2024/GNT2035369)

 

2024-2028          Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, AUD$ 9,000,000

Regional Immunisation Strengthening and Engagement 2 (RISE-2) - Partnerships for a Healthy Region Initiative Grant – Associate Investigator       

 

2024-2028          Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, AUD $4,000,000

Sydney Asia-Pacific Partnership for Health Innovations and Resilient Ecosystems – Chief Investigator

 

2023-2025          GAVI, USD 350,000 (Vietnam project)

                              Multi-country Technical Assistance in National Immunization Technical Advisory Group Strengthening in Vietnam, Fiji, and Timor-Leste, with the potential to add other Pacific Island/WPR countries – Vietnam PI

 

2022-2027          National Health & Medical Research Council, AUD $ 5,052,742.84

The FLIRT-TB study: A fluoroquinolone-based regimen to treat the commonest form of drug-resistant tuberculosis – Chief Investigator J (2022/GNT2014868)

 

2021-2023          Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, AUD $9,531,103.06

Australian Expert Technical Assistance Program for Regional COVID-19 Vaccine Access: Policy, Planning, and Implementation (AETAP – PPI) – Vietnam PI

                               

2020-2021          Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, AUD $367,000

COVID-19 studies in Vietnam – Vietnam PI

 

2019-2024          Canadian Institute of Health Research, CAD$ 145,138

2R2 Higher dose Rifampin for 2 months vs standard dose Rifampin for Latent TB: 1 3-arm randomized trial – Vietnam PI

 

2019-2023          National Health & Medical Research Council, AUD$2,497,940

Centre of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control on both sides of our border – Associate Investigator (2018/GNT1153493)

 

2019-2021          Sydney Institute of Agriculture, AUD$100,000

Agricultural DMIs as drivers of anti- fungal resistance in plant, animal, and human pathogens: a OneHealth investigation – Chief Investigator

 

2018-2022          National Health and Medical Research Council, AUD$513,227.24

Harnessing new mHealth technologies to Strengthen the Management of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Vietnam: The V-SMART Trial – Associate Investigator (2018/GNT1157643)

 

2017-2021          Australian Respiratory Council, AUD$ 50,000

The effect of digital dosing monitoring and mobile phone reminders upon the adherence of patients treated for tuberculosis in Vietnam – Associate Investigator

 

2016-2022         National Health and Medical Research Council Global Alliance for Chronic Disease Grant, AUD$1,987,688.94

An integrated health-sector strategy to combat COPD and asthma in Vietnam: A pragmatic stepped intervention cluster randomized trial – Associate Investigator (2015/GNT1116020)

 

2015-2021          National Health and Medical Research Council, AUD$ 3,396,489.73

Prevention of MDR-TB in a high prevalence setting: Connecting DOT in Vietnam – Associate Investigator (2014/GNT1081443)

 

2015-2019          Canadian Institute of Health Research, CAD$ 264,676

                              Enhancing the public health impact of latent TB infection diagnosis and treatment:

A pragmatic cluster randomized trial – Associate Investigator

 

2014-2015          AERAS Foundation Grant

“Estimating the recurrence rate of tuberculosis in Vietnam” – Associate Investigator, AUD$ 247,500

“Measuring the prevalence of latent TB infection in Ca Mau, Vietnam” – Associate Investigator, AUD$ 316,246

 

2004-2008          Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs, € 3,000,000

                              Prevention of Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Vietnam and Indonesia – Chief Investigator

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Characterising ‘asymptomatic’ tuberculosis and exploring its contribution to M. tuberculosis transmission within communities
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Diagnostic testing for drug-resistant tuberculosis
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness and Patient Preferences of Fluoroquinolone-Based Regimens for INH-Resistant Tuberculosis in Vietnam: The FLIRT Trial Economic Analysis