Bùi Phương Linh

Dr. Linh earned a medical degree at Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam in 2015. She completed the Master of Public Health program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017, fully funded by the Vietnam Education Foundation. She returned to Vietnam to work at Hanoi University of Public Health for two years in different international research projects. She then came back to the US to obtain three degrees from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, a MSc in Epidemiology, and a MSc in Biostatistics. Her research interests lie in the effect of modifiable lifestyle factors such as sustainable diet patterns and physical activity on the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases. She has published about 25 papers on peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Lancet Planetary Health, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the International Journal of Cancer. During her doctoral training in Nutritional Epidemiology, she developed a Planetary Health Diet Index (PHDI) to measure the adherence of lay people to the EAT-Lancet diet. This sustainable diet promotes both human health and minimizes the environmental impact on the planet’s health. She validated the PHDI using three largest prospective cohorts in the United States that have followed more than 200,000 health professionals over 34 years. The new diet score started a new branch of research in estimating the health and environmental effects of sustainable diet. Besides disease-related work, Dr.Linh is very interested in medical education reform and nurturing the next generation of health researchers. During the past seven years as a Teaching Fellow at Hopkins and Harvard, she has been mentoring over 50 medical students and residents around the world to develop and publish research projects on peer-reviewed journals. She co-founded Research Advancement Consortium in Health (REACH), fully funded by the US Embassy in Hanoi in 2018, to provide online and offline medical research training courses, small grants, and mentorship for health improvement projects across Vietnam.