Introduction

The School conducts research both for pure scientific pursuit and as a part of its academic training. Findings of many of these research projects have been appreciated by national health policy makers and acknowledged for their importance by the international colleagues. The School's research projects have attracted the participation of many other organizations and individuals through various systems and programs, most outstanding of which are:

• Chililab: a field research system that monitors the complicated relationship between demographic and epidemiological factors, focusing on adolescent health problems and measuring the impacts of socio-economic variables on community and individual health.

• Viet Nam Public Health Association (VPHA): a system that helps testing and applying public health procedures in the three regions of the country (North, Central, South). The capacity building program for two academic departments: Sociology and Reproductive Health, focusing on curriculum development for 5 subjects and field research.

• The Injury Prevention and Policy Research Center, which conducted a national survey on injury in Vietnam in 2001.

• A research project on the functions of public health conducted in Vietnam, Malaysia and Fiji -  strategic research that helps the WHO and participating countries formulate health strategies and policies. The results of this research have been published by WHO as official documents on this subject.

• Many other research projects hav been conducted on topics such as adolescent health, safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS, morbidity burden, using research findings in policy making, health management information system, harmful insects prevention, mental injuries, etc.

• And many other research projects on adolescent health, safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS, morbidity burden, using research findings in policy making, health management information system, harmful insects prevention, mental injuries, etc.