Dr Le Minh Giang is Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Research and Training on Substance Abuse-HIV (CREATA-H) at Hanoi Medical University in Viet Nam. He also holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University where he is an alumnus. Dr. Giang's research interests are centered on addressing and mitigating the complex intersections between substance abuse, poor sexual health, and HIV/AIDS infections. He has been PI and Co-PI of several NIH-funded studies on drug abuse and HIV and has been working with CREATA-H’s investigators. Since 2012, Dr Giang has led the development of Viet Nam-HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center at Hanoi Medical University aiming at developing addiction medicine workforce to confront drug and HIV epidemics in Viet Nam. He is also a founding member of the Southeast Asian Consortium on Culture, Health and Sexuality, a network of academic institutions in the regional to support training and academic exchanges for regional scholars who are interested in the cross-cultural learning of sexuality and health.