LE CU LINH

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Viet Nam

LE CU LINH

Le Cu Linh has held different positions at Vingroup from 2014 to 2019 and led the team to establish College of Health Sciences (CHS) – one of the pillars of VinUniversity - a not-for-profit higher education institution of Vingroup in late 2019 and served as Executive Vice Dean of CHS since then. He is also a member of Vinmec-VinUni Scientific and Ethical Review Committee and Chair of Data Government Committee. His leadership helps to shape medical and nursing education at VinUni following international standard.

Before joining Vingroup, Dr. Linh worked almost 17 years at Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH) and contributed significantly to the strategic development and opening of public health programs. As a scholar, he taught demography, population and development, research methodology, research ethics, biostatistics and data analysis, etc. 

Dr. Linh served as national advisor for adolescent health projects, a researcher and advocator of injury prevention in Vietnam with contribution to the law and policies on road traffic safety. Besides injury epidemiology and adolescent health issues, his research interests include population and reproductive health, applied information technology in health, public health / medical education, and recently cancer epidemiology. Dr. Linh used to provide technical support as short-term consultant to numerous projects and organizations including EU, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, etc. in Vietnam, China, Laos, The Philippines, etc. He also served as panelists to review candidates for Vietnam Education Foundation in 2004-2005. From 2013 to 2014, he worked as international key expert for Institutional and Technical Support Project based in New Delhi in a EU-funded program to Government of India at National Institute of Health and Family Welfare that helps to build up the capacity of doctors and health professionals in India.

He earned his MD degree from Hanoi Medical University, Computer Science engineer degree from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. He obtained his PhD degree from Tulane University, United States (2002).