Center for
Global Health

International Scholar

Languages: Vietnamese (native), English (fluent)

BIO STATEMENT

Pham Thi Van Anh, MD, PhD is a trained infectious disease and HIV/AIDS specialist. Since 2010, she was recognized by the Ministry of Health as a national Palliative Care (PC) trainer. She also was a contributor to the revised Vietnam National PC Guidelines and the section on PC in the WHO Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Testing, Treatment, Service Delivery, and Monitoring: Recommendations for Public Health Approach. She is currently a co-investigator and the in-country Project Manager for a validation study of the Vietnamese Palliative Outcomes Scale (VietPOS), a collaboration with King’s College London and Harvard Medical School.

Recent Global Health Projects

1. Lead investigator in a research project with Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
▪ Primary Investigator: Prof. Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD
▪ Project: Validation of a core palliative care outcome measure for patients with
serious illness in Vietnam
Approved by the Vietnam Ministry of Health and the Institutional Review Board of Partners Healthcare System in Boston

2. Course development: De-stigmatization to HIV infection and sexual orientation: what should I know as a competent future doctor?
This course was designed in collaboration with Bell Israel Deacon Medical Center for 537 second-year medical students
3. Co-design palliative care for Y5 medical students at VinUniversity
4. Course Instructor of Health Education for Y4 Medical Students: working with children who are the victims of human trafficking

Select Publications

1. Le Dai, D., Pham, T.V.A., Bui, T.T.H., Than, T.N.H., Pham, V.T., Luong, N.K., Harding, R. and Krakauer, E.L., 2022. Symptom prevalence, burden and correlates among people living with HIV in Vietnam: a two-center self-report study. AIDS care, 34(7), pp.887-893.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540121.2021.1922577

2. Duong DB, Nguyen TA, G
Undergraduate Medical Education Reform in Viet Nam for a Primary Health Care Workforce. Ann Glob Health. 2022 Nov
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36415327/

3. Pham VA, Nguyen, H., Krakauer, E.L. and Harding, R., 2021. “I wish I could die so I would not be in pain”: a qualitative study of palliative care needs among people with cancer or HIV/AIDS in Vietnam and their caregivers. Journal of pain and symptom management, 62(2), pp.364-372.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33285274/

4. Duong, D.B., Phan, T., Trung, N.Q., Le, B.N., Do, H.M., Nguyen, H.M., Tang, S.H., Pham, V.A., Le, B.K., Le, L.C. and Siddiqui, Z., 2021. Innovations in medical education in Vietnam. BMJ Innovations, 7(Suppl 1).
https://innovations.bmj.com/content/bmjinnov/7/Suppl_1/s23.full.pdf

5. World Health Organization, 2021. Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach. Palliative Care. World Health Organization.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031593

6. Huyen, B.T., Van Anh, P.T., Duong, L.D., The, T.H.N., Guo, P., Van Thuc, P., Khue, L.N., Krakauer, E.L. and Harding, R., 2021. Quality of life among advanced cancer patients in Vietnam: a multicenter cross-sectional study. Supportive Care in Cancer, 29, pp.4791-4798.

Last Updated: 21 January 2025