Dr Thach Tran is a senior research fellow at the Women’s and Global Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and the recipient of the NHMRC Early Career Fellowship. Currently, he was awarded a Monash Strategic Bridging Fellowship by Monash University. He also has more than ten years’ experience as a public health research officer in Vietnam, working for the Research and Training Centre for Community Development (RTCCD, 1998-2010).

His research focuses on social determinants of women’s mental health, child health, nutrition and development in early childhood in low- and middle-income countries, and measurement in health sciences.

Dr Tran established a global public health research team including two postdoctoral fellows, four HDR students and three research assistants. The team is conducting two NHMRC-funded research programs in Vietnam: the Learning Clubs research program for women’s health and child health and development and a cluster-randomised controlled trial of the Resourceful Adolescent Program – Vietnamese Version to improve adolescent mental health. The team is also undertaking secondary analyses of data from existing longitudinal studies in Australia (The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children; Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children; and Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health) and multi-country studies (The Demographic and Health Surveys and UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys).

Dr Tran has supervised to successful completion 3 PhD students at Monash University. As a member of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine expert statistical advisors’ group, he has contributed substantially to the design and analysis of many PhD students and colleagues’ research projects. Dr Tran is a World Health Organization expert adviser in early childhood development and maternal mental health. He is an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE and BMC Public Health.