Nguyen Tran Lam

Nguyen Tran Lam (1963) has studied HIV/AIDS related issues since 1994.  In 2001, as a Fellow of the Ford Foundation, he went to Amsterdam to study medical anthropology at the Medical Anthropology Unit (MAU) of the University of Amsterdam where he obtained his MA with a study on The Dynamics of AIDS Risks and Gender Relations among Injecting Drug Users in Northern Vietnam. His two articles about the interplay of HIV, drug and sex will be published on the International Journal of Drug Policy and Asian Harm Reduction Network early this Summer.

Since 2002, he has acted as the liaison officer in the development of a collaborative framework between MAU and some Vietnamese institutions (Hanoi School of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, and the HIV/AIDS Prevention Center) for strengthening educational and research capacities in medical anthropology.

His PhD research is entitled “Rural Change and Emerging Epidemics in the Vietnam’s Northern Mountain Region”. Lam will describe and analyse how major infectious diseases (IDs) affect Northern Vietnam’s minorities (risk conditions, social distribution of disease, social response) in the context of changing socio-political and ecological conditions. His PhD project is funded by WOTRO.