Professor Pranee Liamputtong is currently professor in behavior sciences at VinUniversity. She is a medical anthropologist and interested in the health of women, children, immigrants, refugees, the elderly and transgender people. Regarding health issues, she is very interested in issues related to motherhood, reproductive health, gender, sexual health, psychological health and chronic diseases. Recently, she has focused her research on gender and sexual health issues among Asian women, refugee/immigrant women, youth, and transgender women from ethnic minorities. In Vietnam, she began research on air pollution and its real-life impact on the health of mothers and newborns. She is a qualitative researcher and has written many books on this approach. She has also written a number of reference books on health-related issues. Some of her reference books (Qualitative Research Methods, Health Research Methods and Evidence-Based Practice, Social Determinants of Health and Community Health) have been widely applied both in Australia and abroad. In her previous role as Professor of Public Health, she taught qualitative research methods and social determinants of health care units in residency training programs, and also taught about gender & health; culture, diversity & health; Health communication in university programs. At VinUni, Pranee teaches in both medical doctor and nursing degree programs including Medical Humanities, Health Communication, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Research Methods in Nursing and Research Methods in Medical Science. She is also the Research Chair for theses in the Internal Medicine Residency program.

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