

Cambodia
Chhorvann Chhea
Chhorvann CHHEA is Director at the National Institute of Public Health, Cambodia. He also is an advisor to the Ministry of Health, and teaches epidemiology and biostatistics at the School of Public Health, National Institute of Public Health and the University of Health Sciences and leads various research related to maternal and child health and the health system in Cambodia.
Chhorvann has become a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Cambodia and has written extensively on disease prevalence, changing behavioral patterns among Cambodian sex workers, and early warning indicators of HIV drug resistance, among other topics.
He serves on multiple ministerial committees concerning health and education in Cambodia where he contributes to drafting health-related laws, developing a PhD program for higher education in Cambodia, and professorship in the health sector.
He is currently leading an initiative to develop a national health management and leadership training curriculum for health professionals in Cambodia that includes health equity.
More recently, he has been working on training curriculums for health center managers and hospital managers which includes components of health equity.