Nguyen Thanh’s research interests encompass a broad spectrum of health and sustainability, with a primary emphasis on methodology development, applied and implementation research.

Nguyen Thanh studies the dynamics and cascading impacts of Emerging Pests and Pathogens (EPPs) at Stockholm Resilience Centre, including infectious diseases affecting humans, livestock, wildlife, and agricultural systems. His research focuses on understanding when and how EPP outbreaks emerge, how their impacts propagate across social, ecological, and economic systems, and how these cascades interact with broader sustainability challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals. A key component of his work is developing data-driven approaches to capture EPP dynamics beyond traditional surveillance systems. He combines automated text mining methods, including natural language processing and large language models, with expert curation and comparative analysis to extract information from unstructured textual sources such as news media, scientific literature, and policy documents. By integrating occurrence records with media reporting, his work aims to improve understanding of outbreak drivers, public and policy responses, and the downstream societal impacts of EPPs, thereby supporting more anticipatory and integrated responses to emerging biological threats.

Nguyen Thanh’s academic background includes a BSc in Public Health at Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam and an MSc in Integrated Management of Health Risks at Université de Liège, Belgium, followed by a PhD in Global Health at Uppsala University. His doctoral research focused on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policy, examining the alignment between national and global AMR strategies and the Sustainable Development Goals, with particular attention to policy coherence, governance, and cross-sectoral integration.

Awards and achievements

• BRIDGE-AMR project: 300K SEK
• Scholarship holder of the Académie de Recherche et d’Enseignement Supérieur Grant (ARES), Belgium
• Top three of The Sahlgrenska Global Health Hackathon
  

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