Ha Nguyen, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Interests
Dr. Nguyen is a social scientist with a wide range of interests in the area of health disparities and gerontology. She has investigated the effects of physical health on cognitive performance and overall quality of life, depressive symptoms and increased risk of mortality, and psychometric properties of questionnaires used in minority groups. More recently, her work has begun to focus on functional competency and well-being among older Hispanic Americans and the elderly in Vietnam.
Education
| 1994 | University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
B.A. Degree, Psychology |
| 1997 | Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
M.S. Degree, Human Development and Family Studies |
| 2000 | Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Ph.D. Degree, Human Development and Family Studies |
| 2006 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD
M.P.H Degree, Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
Academic Career
| 2000 – 2002 | Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Texas Medical Branch
Sealy Center on Aging
Galveston, TX |
2002 – 2007
| Intramural Research Fellow
Cognition Section, Laboratory of Personality & Cognition
National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging |
2007 – present
| Assistant Professor
Dept. of Family & Community Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC |