Tuan A Nguyen

A/Prof Tuan Anh Nguyen was an NHMRC-ARC funded Dementia Research Development Fellow and is currently a Principal Research Fellow at National Aging Research Institute. He is also an A/Prof at School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology and an Adjunct Associate Research Professor at Clinical & Health Sciences, University of South Australia . His current research lies on the development and implementation of national dementia strategies with a focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), culturally tailored interventions to improve lives of people with dementia and their carers, and medicines that can induce or worsen cognitive impairment and dementia. His expertise covers broad areas, including pharmaceutical policy, pharmaco-epidemiology and drug safety, health care management, public health and behavioural sciences with solid quantitative and qualitative skills. Tuan Anh undertook his PhD training at the University of New South Wales. His PhD thesis examined medicines prices and pricing policies in Vietnam, resulting in a novel model of corruption in the health sector and the first publications to document the contribution of corruption to medicine prices in Vietnam. This work has been recognised internationally and his PhD thesis has been published by the World Health Organization on its website. Since the commencement of his NHMRC-ARC fellowship in 2016, Dr Nguyen has been working on an international scale. He is the founder and leader of a large dementia research collaborative in Asia Pacific region, which is investigating quality use of medicines issues for people with dementia in LMICs in the region, where dementia is a new and emerging health problem. Dr Nguyen is co-leading the capacity building component of an NIH R01 grant to test an Alzheimer’s Family Caregiver Intervention and dementia research capacity building in Vietnam and is a key member of a multidisciplinary research team to strengthen the primary healthcare system to care for an aging population in Vietnam. He has had 78 publications, 50+ conference presentations and has attracted more than $13 million in research funding.