Dr. Nhan Tran

Dr. Nhan Tran leads the Safety and Mobility Unit in the Department for the Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization. He co-ordinates work in the areas of unintentional injury prevention focused mainly on road safety, drowning, falls and burns. He was previously the Manager of the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. He co-founded the International Injury Research Unit at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a science advisor and programme manager at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He holds a PhD in Health Systems Research and a graduate degree in International Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Dr Tran was born in Viet Nam and grew up in the United States.