Dr Hung Nguyen-Viet

Dr Hung Nguyen-Viet is the co-leader of the Animal and Human Health Program at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the leader of the CGIAR initiative on One Health. His research focuses on the link between agriculture and health, 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).

Dr. Nguyen-Viet was a WHO expert to study the SARS-CoV-2 origins in Wuhan, China in 2021 and has been a member of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens since 2021 (SAGO). He has 20 years of experience working in Asia, Africa and Europe. Prior to joining ILRI, he was with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and co-founded and led the Center for Public Health and Ecosystem Research at Hanoi University of Public Health, Vietnam.

He is from Vietnam and holds a PhD in Life and Environmental Sciences from the University of Franche-Comte in Besancon, France.