Personal profile
Biography
Nhung is Associate Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Genome Sciences, John Curtin School of Medical Research. Her research focus is on economic evaluation and modelling for clinical trials. She joined the Clinical Hub for Interventional Research (CHOIR), Australian National University in 2023. She previously worked at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand from 2011.
She is a health economist with interdisciplinary expertise in modelling and data science. Nhung is internationally recognised for her work on modelling public health interventions and has a growing research profile in machine learning in healthcare. She led a prestigious Marsden Fast Start project funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand and has contributed to securing over $12 million in research funding. She has served on a Scientific Panel for Grant Assessment of the New Zealand Health Research Council since 2022.
Nhung has published in high-impact factor leading international journals, including the Lancet Public Health, Tobacco Control, and PloS Medicine. She has been ranked among the top 2% of researchers in the world for the single year, both in 2022 and 2023, based on citation scores (the Stanford list, Ioannidis, John P.A. 2023, https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4). Her modelling work contributed to the development of the world's first tobacco endgame law (passed by the New Zealand Parliament in 2022).
Nhung has served on the Arrow Award Committee, which awards an annual prize for the best published health economics paper in honour of Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow.
Qualifications
PhD Economics
Research Interests
- Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials
- Health Economic Modelling
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Health Equity
- Causal Inference Methods