WELCOME TO HUE INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH RESEARCH (ICHR)

ICHR is a collaborative research institute with key partners at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Health Departments in five provinces in the Central and Highland area of Vietnam and Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia under financial, resource and technical support from Atlantic Philanthropies (AP)-USA and QUT. The primary mission of the ICHR is to improve quality of scientific community health research, to apply research findings to the community healthcare practice, to provide training and technical support for improving research capability and evaluation of community health services among 5 provinces in Central and Highland area of Vietnam.

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Implementation Research & Tropical Medicine: An Introduction from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany
On January 19th, 2024, the Institute of Community Health Research (Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy) hosted an academic-exchanged seminar with...
Viện NCSKCĐ tổ chức khóa tập huấn “Nâng cao năng lực xử trí và điều trị rắn cắn” tại Đà Lạt, Lâm Đồng
Viện Nghiên cứu Sức khỏe Cộng đồng, Trường Đại học Y Dược Huế và viện Viện Y học Nhiệt đới Bernhard Nocht, CHLB Đức đã tổ chức khóa tập huấn "Nâng...

About ICHR

The Institute for Community Health Research (ICHR) at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy in central Vietnam was founded on the basis of the smaller Center for Community Health Research (decision number 56/QD-DHH dated on 14 Jan, 2014 by the President of Hue University). The ICHR has developed from collaboration between Hue UMP, Health Departments of 5 provinces in the Central and Highlands regions of Vietnam and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia under financial, resource and technical support from Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and QUT.

Our work

ICHR publication on "Health behavior"
Health behaviors are actions individuals take that affect their health. They include actions that lead to improved health, such...
ICHR publication on "Environmental Health"
Environmental health is the branch of public health that: focuses on the relationships between people and their environment;...
ICHR publication on "Infectious and Tropical diseases"
Vietnam faces infectious diseases, tropical diseases related to the climate characteristics of the region. Research in these...
ICHR publication on "Mental health and NCDs"
ICHR Institute has leading experts in these fields in the Central - Central Highlands region, participating in research on mental...
Upcoming Events

The 13th international conference on Public Health among Greater Mekong Sub-Regional countries on "Enhancing transdisciplinary collaborations on Education and Research to tackle priority public health issues in the new Era" has following objectives:

  • To strengthen the relationship of Faculties of Public Health among the Southeast Asian countries and in the world;
  • To share research results in the field of Public Health as well as priority public health issues among greater Mekong Sub-Regional countries;
  • To search for feasible solutions to enhance international collaboration among Public Health Faculties in Mekong Sub-Region and a wider area of the Southeast Asian countries about training and research in Public Health.

An abstract should be in one paragraph with no more 350 words, describing the major aspects of the entire paper in a prescribed sequence that includes: 1) Introduction: The overall purpose of the study and the research problem(s) you investigated; 2) Objective(s): The outcomes that you aim to achieve by conducting research; 3) Method: The basic design of the study; 4) Results: Major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis; and, 5) Conclusions: a brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions.

Thua Thien Hue provincial Association of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in collaboration with the Faculty of Public Health and the Institute for Community Health Research of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, will host a scientific conference on Public Health.  (updating...)

Emerging infectious diseases are, more than ever, at the center of the world’s attention. Join a diverse group of colleagues from around the world as they present new knowledge and breakthroughs about how to discover, detect, understand, prevent and respond to outbreaks of emerging disease threats.