ProfessorThu-Anh Nguyen
Professor Global Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health
- Professor Global HealthFaculty of Medicine and Health
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 SUPERVISIONCharacterising ‘asymptomatic’ tuberculosis and exploring its contribution to M. tuberculosis transmission within communities
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONDiagnostic testing for drug-resistant tuberculosis
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEvaluating the Cost-Effectiveness and Patient Preferences of Fluoroquinolone-Based Regimens for INH-Resistant Tuberculosis in Vietnam: The FLIRT Trial Economic Analysis