Hung Nguyen-Viet

Hung Nguyen-Viet

Co-Leader, Animal and Human Health Program

Hung Nguyen (full name Hung Nguyen-Viet) is the co-leader of Animal and Human Health Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the lead of the CGIAR initiative on One Health. His current research focuses on the link between health and agriculture, food safety, and infectious and zoonotic diseases with an emphasis on the use of risk assessment for food safety management with an integrative approach (One Health and Ecohealth). He was the ILRI regional representative for East and Southeast Asia, the flagship leader of food safety of the CGIAR research program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and the chair of the working group Integrating a One Health Approach to COVID-19 Response at the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub. He was also a WHO expert to study the SARS-CoV-2 origins in Wuhan, China in 2021 and is a member of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO).

Prior to joining ILRI, he co-founded and led the Center for Public Health and Ecosystem Research (CENPHER) at Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam where he developed a regional research portfolio on agri- and environmental health and coordinated the Ecohealth Field Building Leadership Initiative (FBLI) in Southeast Asia. He worked for Swiss Tropical and Public Health institute (SwissTPH) and Sandec/Eawag in Switzerland as a postdoctoral researcher in Microbiology, Health, and Environment within the Swiss NCCR North-South.

He has experience working in Asia, Africa and Europe and holds a PhD in Life and Environmental Sciences from France.

My Projects

Improving human health through sustainable value chains in human-animal-environmental interactions using ICT in Vietnam (ICT4Health)

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Improving human health through sustainable value chains in human-animal-environmental interactions using ICT in Vietnam (ICT4Health)

A Maasai pastoralist taking livestock to drink from the Olkitikiti Dam

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Protecting human health through a One Health approach

Vietnam Food Safety Project

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Vietnam Food Safety Project

Safe food, fair food for Cambodia

Safe food, fair food for Cambodia

Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production

Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production

Assessing competitiveness of smallholder pig farming in the changing landscape of northwest Vietnam

Assessing competitiveness of smallholder pig farming in the changing landscape of northwest Vietnam

Reducing disease risks and improving food safety in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam

Reducing disease risks and improving food safety in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam

Task force for risk assessment for food safety in Vietnam: Operational research to assist policy and capacity building

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Task force for risk assessment for food safety in Vietnam: Operational research to assist policy and capacity building

My Blog Posts

ILRI News

Informal food markets: what it takes to make them safer

ILRI News

Livestock pathways to 2030: Seven ways to invest in One Health

My Publications

Transboundary animal diseases: Research and development priorities for resilient agrifood systems

  • Hung Nguyen-Viet

How can climate change and its interaction with other compounding risks be considered in evaluation? Experiences from Vietnam

  • Lam, S.
  • Dodd, W.
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet
  • Unger, Fred
  • Trang T.H. Le
  • Sinh Dang-Xuan
  • Skinner, K.
  • Papadopoulos, A.
  • Harper, S.L.

Insights in improving food safety in smallholder pig value chains in Vietnam

  • Chi Nguyen
  • Pham Van Hung
  • Nguyen Thi Duong Nga
  • Duong Nam Ha
  • Phuc Pham-Duc
  • Le Thi Thanh Huyen
  • Toribio, J.-A.
  • Sinh Dang-Xuan
  • Le Thi Huyen Trang
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet
  • Grace, Delia
  • Jones, Elizabeth
  • Unger, Fred

SARS-CoV-2 infection in a hippopotamus, Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Vuong Nghia Bui
  • Tung Duy Dao
  • Long Hoang Tran
  • Thanh Thi Vu
  • Trang Huyen Nguyen
  • Giang Hoang Nguyen
  • Kien Viet Dung Tran
  • Huyen Xuan Nguyen
  • Anh Ngoc Bui
  • Unger, Fred
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet
  • Hu Suk Lee

Impact of perception and assessment of consumers on willingness to pay for upgraded fresh pork: An experimental study in Vietnam

  • Hai Hoang Tuan Ngo
  • Sinh Dang-Xuan
  • Målqvist, M.
  • Phuc Pham-Duc
  • Phi Nguyen-Hong
  • Hang Le-Thi
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet
  • Trang T.H. Le
  • Grace, Delia
  • Lindahl, Johanna F.
  • Unger, Fred

A glance into traditional pig slaughtering practices in Vietnam and opportunities for zoonotic disease prevention

  • Ting, N.I.
  • Sinh Dang-Xuan
  • Gilbert, Jeffrey
  • Nguyen Thao Thi Nguyen
  • Lam, S.
  • Hung Nguyen-Viet