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Dr Vinh (Nam) Nguyen

Research Member of Common Room

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Dr Nam Nguyen has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and previously worked at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) within the Nuffield Department of Population Health since 2023. His current research focuses on using large healthcare databases to investigate antibiotic prescribing in primary care and to inform antibiotic stewardship interventions.

He is also interested in applying novel statistical and econometric methods, such as instrumental variable approaches, to provide unbiased estimates of the causal effects of antibiotic prescribing. Nam’s work draws on large observational datasets from both high-income settings (e.g., the Clinical Practice Research Datalink – CPRD) and low-income settings (e.g., the IQVIA Medical Data Index (MDI) for Pakistan, Egypt, and Indonesia) to inform localised guidelines and antibiotic use targets globally.

Prior to joining Oxford, Nam was based at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he completed his PhD on community-level antimicrobial stewardship in low- and middle-income countries. During his PhD, he spent one semester as a visiting student research collaborator at Princeton University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing