Le Thi Chi Phuong

Program Officer, Vietnam Office

Le Thi Chi Phuong has worked at HealthBridge’s Vietnam Office as a Project Officer in Tobacco Control and Nutrition since 2004. Phuong graduated from the Thai Binh Medical College. She previously worked for the Research and Training Center for Community Development (RTCCD), a local NGO, as a researcher and field manager in projects related to health systems development and nutrition.

Currently, Phuong coordinates HealthBridge’s Mainstreaming Tobacco Control in Vietnam and Reducing the Social Acceptability of Smoking in Vietnam projects.

This first project aims to strengthening tobacco control in Vietnam by mobilizing the greater involvement and participation of key government agencies, UN agencies, NGOs and donors in tobacco control. The second project, being implemented in Thai Binh, Da Nang and Ben Tre provinces, supports long-term national plans to decrease the social acceptability of smoking in Vietnam, thus leading to a decline in both smoking rates and passive smoking. Project activities include the development of effective, evidence-based, culture-specific media products that emphasize the harmful effects of smoking and of secondhand smoke, and behavior change of smokers and non-smokers.