Dr. Hoa Thi Nguyen
Post-doc researcher
Hoa Thi Nguyen is a post-doc researcher in health economics and health financing at HIGH. Her works centres around assessing value for money of population-level interventions to inform decisions on resource allocation and scale-up in the global settings. Hoa’s areas of research cover health financing, maternal and child health, breast cancer care, diagnostic solutions, and mental health care.
Hoa is currently supported by the Olympia-Morata grant of Heidelberg University towards achieving her habilitation on economic evaluation of population level interventions in the global context.
Education
Post-doc researcher in Health Economics and Health Financing at HIGH since 2020
PHD candidate in Public Health at HIGH from 2014 to 2019
Master program in International Health at HIGH from 2010 to 2011
Bachelor study in Economics at Foreign Trade University from 2002 to 2005
Bachelor study in English Studies at Hanoi University from 1997 to 2001
Contributions
Projects & Grants
Economic evaluation of implementing Digital Mobile Mental Heath (DMMH) intervention in routine mental health care in Europe within IMMERSE project, 2021-2025, funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under grant agreement 945263: immerse-project.eu
Economic evaluation of ADVANCE interventions - Addressing mental health vulnerabilities from adolescence to older age: innovating prevention science for times of change, 2023-2028, funded by the EU Horizon Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101080323: publichealth.ku.dk/about-the-department/global/research/advance-addressing-mental-health-vulnerabilities-from-adolescence-to-older-age/
Other scientific projects & initiatives
Micro-costing of delivery care and child curative care services in Burkina Faso
Economic evaluation of the national free health care policy for pregnant women and children under five in Burkina Faso
Costing of the digitalization of the free health care program for delivery care services in Cameroon
Publications
Nguyen, H.T., Denkinger, C.M., Brenner, S. et al. Cost and cost-effectiveness of four different SARS-CoV-2 active surveillance strategies: evidence from a randomised control trial in Germany. Eur J Health Econ 24, 1545–1559 (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01561-8
Nguyen, H.T., De Allegri, M., Heil, J. Hennigs A. Population-Level Impact of Omitting Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Early Breast Cancer Women: Evidence from an Economic Evaluation in Germany. Appl Health Econ Health Policy (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s40258-022-00771-8
Nguyen HT, Torbica A, Brenner S, Kiendrébéogo JA, Tapsoba L, Ridde V, et al. Economic evaluation of user-fee exemption policies for maternal healthcare in Burkina Faso: Evidence from a cost-effectiveness analysis. Value Health (2020). doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2019.10.007.
Nguyen, HT., Zombré, D., Ridde, V. and De Allegri, M. (2018). The impact of reducing and eliminating user fees on facility-based delivery: a controlled interrupted time series in Burkina Faso. Health Policy Plan 33, 948-956, doi: 10.1093/heapol/czy077
Nguyen HT, Luu TV, Leppert G, et al. (2017) Community preferences for a social health insurance benefit package: an exploratory study among the uninsured in Vietnam. BMJ Glob Health 2:e000277. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000277