Biography
Luan is president of Friends for International TB Relief and supports Vietnam’s NTP to research and implement active case finding, private sector engagement, social protection, diagnostics and prevention. He co-led the 2015-2020 Program Review and is on Vietnam’s CCM technical advisory group for TB. He is Treasurer of The Union, and member of the Stop TB Board's Innovation Constituency, WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB and WHO-Stop TB's PPM Core Group. Luan is a PhD candidate with Karolinska Institutet, and holds an MPH from LSHTM and a BSE in bioengineering and mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Key Impacts
Utility of symptom-agnostic chest X-ray for facility-based TB screening in Viet Nam: Secondary analysis of a large-scale public-private mix intervention
Chest radiography can enable detection of asymptomatic TB, improving pre-test probability, and reducing testing of symptomatic individuals for TB.
Source: Conference 2024
Early results of the first subnational TB prevalence survey in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
It is feasible to conduct a subnational TBPS that produces robust TB burden estimates within acceptable timeframes and costs. TBPS in subnational hotspots can be valuable surveillance tools to monitor progress towards ending TB. This methodology may also be considered to optimize the timelines and costs for national TBPS.
Source: Conference 2024
Show me the money: Making the investment case for community-wide screening
Impact details available upon request.
Source: Conference 2024
Building a new funding order: Reforming TB finance towards domestic driven agendas
Impact details available upon request.
Source: Conference 2024