Thinh Toan Vu, MS '20

Thinh Toan Vu is a dedicated Research Manager and Data Management Head at the Center for Innovation in Mental Health (CIMH), housed within the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. His research focus centers on implementing science methods to scale integrated care models for mental health within vulnerable communities. Thinh is particularly interested in the implementation and efficacy of evidence-based depression care, with an emphasis on task-sharing for underserved BIPOC populations in both New York City and Vietnam. He has received prestigious fellowships from the Fogarty UCLA/Vietnam Training Program in Evaluation and Advanced Methodologies in HIV/AIDS Research (2018-2020), the CIMH Global Mental Health Fellowship (twice, in 2021 and 2022), and the Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations at the CUNY School of Medicine (twice, in 2022 and 2023). Thinh obtained his MS in Epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 2020.

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