Dr. Thach Tran is a senior research fellow at the Global and Women’s Health unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Dr. Tran received an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and a Monash Strategic Bridging Fellowship from Monash University. He also has more than ten years of 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 the social determinants of women’s mental health; child health, nutrition, and development; adolescent health; and measurement in health sciences. Dr. Tran led a team conducting an NHMRC-funded 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 on women and child health in Australia (The Longitudinal Study of Australian 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 four PhD students at Monash University and two PhD students at Hanoi University of Public Health. 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 was an Academic Editor of PLOS ONE and BMC Public Health.